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It was as the president general, the highest office in the gift of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revo- lution, that Mrs. Stevenson achieved perhaps her highest per- sonal distinction. She served four times in that high office. She was elected for the first time on Feb. 22, 1893, after a short in- terim following the death of Mrs. Benjamin Harrison, the first president general, who died in the fall of 1892. She was re- elected on Feb. 22, 1894, and then after the term of Mrs. John W. Foster, which followed her own, Mrs. Stevenson was chosen to the same office for the third time, on Feb. 22, 1896, and again in 1897. On her retirement from her second term, in 1895, the congress of the D. A. R. adopted the following resolution : "That this con- tinental congress of the Daughters of the American Revolu- tion * * * * does hereby create the office of honorary president general, to be filled only by retiring presidents general : that Mrs. Letitia Green Stevenson, the retiring president general, be asked to accept that honorary office." As the wife of the vice-president of the United States for four years, from 1893 to 1897, Mrs. Stevenson occupied a position of social prominence in the nation's capital which required womanly qualities of the highest type to acceptably and creditably fill. That she more than met the expected duties and responsibilities was testified by the large circle of eminent women with whom she in those years mingled. She presided at the head of Mr. Stevenson's Washington home with that graciousness and poise which could spring only from inborn aristocracy, in the truest sense of that word.