Most United States presidents have kept pets while in office, or pets have been part of their families. Only James K. Polk, Andrew Johnson, and Donald Trump did not have any presidential pets while in
Socks at the White House Press Briefing Room lectern in 1993
Grace Coolidge with Laddie Boy, an Airedale Terrier, and Rob Roy, a white Collie
Barney, India, and Miss Beazley, three pets of the George W. Bush White House
Portrait of George Washington Taking the Salute at Trenton by John Faed shows Washington on his horse Blueskin
Socks Clinton was the pet cat of the Clinton family, the first family of the United States from 1993 to 2001. An adopted stray, he was the pet of the Clintons during the administration, and after Pres
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…about; that's how you handle hounds." Him died after he was run over by the presidential limousine. Bill Clinton moved into the White House with Socks, a tuxedo cat, who in 1991 was reported to have jumped into the arms of Chelsea Clinton after piano lessons while the Clintons were living in Little…
An undated photo of Betty Currie and Socks as he walks on her desk.
Socks perching on the backseat of a van, 1993