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In 1975, President Ford's dog, Liberty, gave birth to nine puppies at the White House. These were not the first babies born at the White House, however. The first White House baby was Thomas Jefferson's grandson, Martha Jefferson Randolph's son James Madison Randolph. The only president to have his own baby born at the White House was Grover Cleveland. After losing the presidency, then being re-elected for a second, non-consecutive term, Cleveland's wife Frances Folsom Cleveland, 27 years his junior and the daughter of Cleveland's former law partner, gave birth to their second child, Esther