Francis B. Sayre was a professor at Harvard Law School. He later served as ambassador to Siam, High Commissioner of the Philippines, U.S. representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council, and Assistant Secretary of State for President Franklin Roosevelt.

He married Jessie Wilson, the daughter of President Woodrow Wilson, at the White House on November 25, 1913. They had three children. Francis B. Sayre, Jr. born in January 1915, Ellen born in March 1916, and Woodrow Wilson Sayre, born in 1919. Jessie Wilson Sayre died on January 15, 1933 of complications from surgery. Their son Francis Jr., was later the dean of the National Cathedral in Washington.

Photo: Wilson, Francis Sayre, and the newborn Francis Sayre Jr. January 1915. Note the black armband on Wilson’s arm. he was still in mourning for his wife Ellen, who had died in August 1914. Photo: The Woodrow Wilson House.