Alice Roosevelt

When Theodore Roosevelt become president Alice quickly became an instant celebrity and fashion icon; so much so that a shade of blue became known as “Princess Alice Blue.” During a time when women were fighting for the right to vote, Alice constantly challenged the ideas on what it meant to be an American woman; she behaved unpredictably, she went to parties and dressed fashionably, smoked cigarettes, would ride unchaperoned in cars with men, engaged in voodoo, and even carried around a pet snake. Her marriage to Nicholas Longworth was one of the biggest events in the history of the White House. She was said to cut into her wedding cake with a ceremonial sword she took from her father's military aid. Alice was also banned from the White House after her family moved out, for burying a voodoo doll of Nallie Taft carrying a hex in the garden, and for making a rude joke at President Wilson’s expense.