Pauline Wayne

A working animal rather than a pet, and the better story for it. When the Tafts' first cow, Mooly Wooly, died, Wisconsin Senator Isaac Stephenson sent a prize Holstein from his farm, and Pauline Wayne kept the presidential household supplied with milk and butter. She also traveled like a celebrity. Pauline was shipped by train to a dairy exposition in Milwaukee, and in 1911 her car was misrouted onto a train bound for the Chicago stockyards. After Taft left office in 1913 she went home to Wisconsin. She is often called the last presidential cow to graze on the White House grounds, a detail that marks the end of the mansion as a semi-rural household.