Famous Visitors

Stanley Baldwin

1920

Three times Prime Minister, he is the only premier to have served under three monarchs in Great Britain.

Admiral Beatty

1920

Mrs. J. C. Bond

1920

Author of "The End of a Perfect Day"

Aristide Briand

1920

French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic and was a co-laureate of the 1926 Nobel Peace Prize.

Dr. Emile Coué

1920

French philosopher.

Vicente Blasco Ibañez

1920

Spanish poet.

Fernand Payen

1920

Marshall of the French Court of Appeals.

General John J. Pershing

1920

United States general.

King Edward VIII

Thursday, November 13, 1919

Edward the Prince of Wales (who would later become King Edward VIII) visited Mount Vernon “very informally” by automobile, with a group which included American Vice President Thomas Riley Marshall.

Prince Yoshihisa Tokugawa

Thursday, July 18, 1918

Prince Yoshihisa Tokugawa, representing the Japanese Red Cross, visited Mount Vernon in 1918.

John McCormack

Thursday, July 04, 1918

Irish tenor who sang the Star-Spangled Banner on the 4th of July in 1918.

Cosmo Gordon Lang, Archbishop of York

Tuesday, April 02, 1918

Lord Reading

Tuesday, April 02, 1918

Bishop Doane

April 1918

Of New York; accompanied Lord Reading and the Archbishop of York to Mount Vernon.

Bishop Harding

April 1918

Of Washington; accompanied Lord Reading and the Archbishop of York to Mount Vernon.