Record #:

23380

Author(s):

Kammerer, Roger

Abstract:

Presidents who visited Greenville include George Washington in 1791 and John F. Kennedy in 1960.\r\nSeveral Greenville citizens attended Grover Cleveland's Inauguration on March 4, 1885, and a local newspaper reported Miss Ella Monterio of Greenville as the most beautiful woman at President Cleveland's reception. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt visited Greenville in 1941. J. G. Gibbs presented President Truman with a unique desk in 1950 and in 1962, Vance Daniel of Farmville met with President Kennedy at the White House. Several Greenville citizens attended President Kennedy's funeral in 1963 and, Pitt Countians attended the Presidential Inauguration for Lyndon Baines Johnson.\r\n

Source:

Greenville Times / Pitt's Past (NC Microforms), Vol. Issue , Mar 19-Apr 2 2008, p4, 9

Subject(s):

Washington, George, 1732-1799