<P> Cleveland viewed Native Americans as wards of the state, saying in his first inaugural address that "(t) his guardianship involves, on our part, efforts for the improvement of their condition and enforcement of their rights ." He encouraged the idea of cultural assimilation, pushing for the passage of the Dawes Act, which provided for distribution of Indian lands to individual members of tribes, rather than having them continued to be held in trust for the tribes by the federal government . While a conference of Native leaders endorsed the act, in practice the majority of Native Americans disapproved of it . Cleveland believed the Dawes Act would lift Native Americans out of poverty and encourage their assimilation into white society . It ultimately weakened the tribal governments and allowed individual Indians to sell land and keep the money . </P> <P> In the month before Cleveland's 1885 inauguration, President Arthur opened four million acres of Winnebago and Crow Creek Indian lands in the Dakota Territory to white settlement by executive order . Tens of thousands of settlers gathered at the border of these lands and prepared to take possession of them . Cleveland believed Arthur's order to be in violation of treaties with the tribes, and rescinded it on April 17 of that year, ordering the settlers out of the territory . Cleveland sent in eighteen companies of Army troops to enforce the treaties and ordered General Philip Sheridan, at the time Commanding General of the U.S. Army, to investigate the matter . </P> <P> Cleveland entered the White House as a bachelor, and his sister Rose Cleveland joined him, to act as hostess for the first two years of his administration . Unlike the previous bachelor president James Buchanan, Cleveland did not remain a bachelor for long . In 1885 the daughter of Cleveland's friend Oscar Folsom visited him in Washington . Frances Folsom was a student at Wells College . When she returned to school, President Cleveland received her mother's permission to correspond with her, and they were soon engaged to be married . On June 2, 1886, Cleveland married Frances Folsom in the Blue Room at the White House . He was the second president to wed while in office, and has been the only president married in the White House . This marriage was unusual, since Cleveland was the executor of Oscar Folsom's estate and had supervised Frances's upbringing after her father's death; nevertheless, the public took no exception to the match . At 21 years, Frances Folsom Cleveland was the youngest First Lady in history, and the public soon warmed to her beauty and warm personality . </P> <P> The Clevelands had five children: Ruth (1891--1904), Esther (1893--1980), Marion (1895--1977), Richard (1897--1974), and Francis Grover (1903--1995). British philosopher Philippa Foot was their granddaughter . </P>

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