Book  (2007)  Page(s) 404.  
 
President, HSet, dp, about 1846, Pierce; flowers reddish-pink, small, very dbl., borne in clusters of 15 - 20; foliage medium size, rugose, deeply serrated; prickles purplish red.

Book  (1860)  Page(s) 167.  
 
R. sempervirens...Président, small, very double, deep pink; blooms later than the others [setigeras].

Book  (1858)  Page(s) 307.  
 
Rosa rubifolia. President, small, very double, deep pink; blooms later than the others.

Magazine  (1858)  Page(s) 402.  
 
Rosa setigera...The best sorts are: ....President, rose-pink, small, very double, late-blooming...

Magazine  (Aug 1849)  Page(s) 379.  
 
Massachusetts Horticultural Society.
Exhibited. -- From Hovey & Co., fifteen varieties of Prairie roses, as follows: -- Queen [of the Prairies], Perpetual Pink, Superba, Baltimore Belle, Pallida, Caradori Allen, Miss Gunnell, Mrs. Hovey, Eva Corinne, Anne Marie, Jane, Pride of Washington, President, and Triumphant...

NB: despite the promise of fifteen varieties, only fourteen are listed.

Book  (1849)  Page(s) 32, supplement.  
 
Descriptive List of Roses.
List of roses that bloom only once in the season.
Climbing Roses. Rubifolia.
1879 President... [no description]

Book  (1848)  Page(s) Vol. II, p. 102.  
 
Rosa rubilfolia.
The Prairie Rose.
The Prairie, or Bramble-leaved Rose, is a North- American species, introduced to England in 1830. [...] 
[T]hose varieties we have hitherto seen appear best suited for Climbing Roses, and require no particular cultivation.
12. President; flowers deep pink, small and very double; form, compact. Flowers later than others of the Group.

Magazine  (Aug 1847)  Page(s) 354-356.  
 
Art. IV. Descriptions of Eight New Varieties of Prairie Roses. By the Editor.

Mr. Pierce raised twelve kinds, brief descriptions of which he sent us last season; but, as they only referred to the color of the flowers, we thought it preferable to delay their publication until we could render them complete. Most of our plants have flowered finely this year, and we have been enabled to do so, and we now annex the following descriptions of each:—

President.—Flowers, small, deep pink, compact, and very double: clusters, medium size, and rather loose, numbering fifteen to twenty flowers: foliage, medium size, rugose, and rather deeply serrated: prickles, purplish red: habit, vigorous and good. This is one of the latest flowering varieties.