Famous Visitors

Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt)

1933 and many other occasions

First Lady of the United States (1933-1945).

Senator Gosuke Imai

1933 and 1940

Member of the House of Peers in Japan & President of the Japan Association for New York-San Francisco International Expositions.

J. Edgar Hoover

Monday, February 22, 1932

First director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Cardinal Verdier

1932

The Queen of Siam

Thursday, April 30, 1931

Accompanied by First Lady Mrs. Herbert Hoover.

Prince and Princess Svasti of Siam

Wednesday, April 29, 1931

Marshall Petain

1931

Came to Mount Vernon with a group of descendants of Lafayette, Rochambeau, De Grasse, and other Frenchmen who fought with Washington in the American Revolution.

President Herbert Hoover

February 22, 1930, and February 22, 1932

President and Mrs. Hoover visited on George Washington's birthday in 1930 and 1932.

Red Tomahawk

June 1929

Sioux chief.

Colonel Granados

1929

Good-will aviator from Guatemala.

Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover)

1929 and several other occasions

First Lady of the United States (1929-1933). Came to Mount Vernon on several occasions during her husband's presidency.

The Right Reverend John McKim

1928

Bishop of Toyko, Japan.

Major Georges Scapini

1928

Prince William

1927

From Sweden.

Dr. Hugo Eckener

1927

German blimp pilot; commander of the famous Graf Zeppelin for most of its record-setting flights, including the first airship flight around the world.