Rebecca (raccoon)

She arrived as Thanksgiving dinner and left as a celebrity. A supporter from Mississippi sent the Coolidges a raccoon in 1926 with the suggestion that she be served for the holiday meal. The family kept her instead, and that Christmas the president gave her an embroidered collar reading "White House Raccoon." Rebecca went with Grace Coolidge to the White House Egg Roll on April 18, 1927, and her fame says much about Coolidge, a famously reserved president who let his menagerie do the charming. When the family left in 1929, she went to the Rock Creek zoo to live among other raccoons.