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Laura Lane Welch Bush (born November 4, 1946) is the wife of U.S. President George W. Bush and is thereby the First Lady of the United States. - Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton is a junior Democratic Senator from New York. Married to former President Bill Clinton , she was First Lady from 1993 to 2001. She is currently seeking the Democratic nomination for President in 2008 and is considered the front-runner. Mike Huckabee - Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11 1884 - November 7 1962) was an American political leader who used her influence as an active First Lady from 1933 to 1945 to promote the New Deal policies of her husband, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as well as taking a prominent role as an advocate for civil rights. After her husband's death in 1945, she continued to be an internationally prominent author and speaker for the New Deal coalition. - Barbara Bush
Barbara Pierce Bush (born June 8, 1925) is the wife of the 41st President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, and was First Lady of the United States from 1989 to 1993. She is the mother of the current U.S. President George W. Bush and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush. She was also the Second Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1988. - Nancy Reagan
Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins on July 6, 1921) is the widow of former United States President Ronald Reagan and was First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. Reagan was born in New York in 1921 and moved to California in the 1940s, where she became an actress before meeting her husband, Ronald Reagan. They married in 1952, and had two children. Reagan became First Lady of California in 1967 with her husband's gubernatorial victory, … - Lady Bird Johnson
Claudia Alta (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson was the wife of U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson. Throughout her life, she was an advocate for beautification of the nation's cities and highways and conservation of natural resources. The former First Lady was a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold Medal. - Martha Washington
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington (June 2, 1731 - May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington is considered as the first First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was simply known as "Lady Washington". - Betty Ford
Elizabeth Anne Bloomer Warren Ford, known as Betty (born April 8, 1918) is the widow of former United States President Gerald R. Ford and was the First Lady from 1974 to 1977. She is the founder and former chairman of the board of directors of the Betty Ford Center for substance abuse and addiction. Betty Ford is a recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal. - Pat Nixon
Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon (March 16, 1912 - June 22, 1993) was the wife of former President Richard Nixon and the First Lady of the United States of America from 1969 to 1974. She was commonly known as Pat Nixon. - Mamie Eisenhower
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower was the wife of General and President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and First Lady of the United States from 1953 to 1961. - Dolley Payne Todd Madison
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (5/20/1768) was born in North Carolina, moving with her family to Philadelphia in 1783. In 1794, Dolley, by then a widow, met and married Virginia Congressman James Madison . The couple moved to Washington, D.C. in 1801 when Madison was appointed to President Jefferson's cabinet. Through these years and during her husband's presidency, Dolley became Washington's premiere hostess, setting the standard for those who followed. - Bess Truman
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman, often known as "Bess Truman", was the wife of Harry S. Truman and First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953. - Rosalynn Carter
Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter, known as Rosalynn, (born August 18, 1927) is the wife of former President Jimmy Carter and was First Lady of the United States from 1977 to 1981. - Mary Todd Lincoln
Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 - July 16, 1882) was the First Lady of the United States when her husband, Abraham Lincoln, served as the sixteenth President, from 1861 until 1865. - Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 - May 19, 1994) was the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963 and was known as Jacqueline Kennedy or Jackie Kennedy. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. From 1968 until his death in 1975, she was married to Aristotle Onassis and was known as Jacqueline Onassis, Jackie Onassis, … - Edith Roosevelt
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (August 6, 1861 - September 30, 1948), second wife of Theodore Roosevelt, was First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Edith Kermit Carow knew Theodore Roosevelt from infancy; as a toddler she became a playmate of his younger sister Corinne. - Grace Coolidge
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge was wife of Calvin Coolidge and First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929. Grace Anna Goodhue grew up in the Green Mountain city of Burlington, Vermont, the only child of Andrew and Lemira B. Goodhue. While still a girl she heard of a school for deaf children in Northampton, Massachusetts, and eventually decided to share its challenging work. - Abigail Fillmore
Abigail Powers Fillmore (March 13, 1798 - March 30, 1853), wife of Millard Fillmore, was First Lady of the United States from 1850 to 1853. She was born in Saratoga County, New York while it was still on the fringe of civilization. Her father, a locally prominent Baptist preacher named Lemuel Powers, died shortly thereafter. Her mother moved the family westward, thinking her scanty funds would go further in a less settled region, … - Louisa Adams
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, born Louisa Catherine Johnson (February 12 1775 - May 15 1852), wife of John Quincy Adams, was First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American, Joshua Johnson of Maryland who served as United States consulate general in London after 1790. She had a sister, Caroline, and a brother, Thomas. - Jane Pierce
Jane Means Appleton Pierce (March 12, 1806 - December 2, 1863), wife of Franklin Pierce, was First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857. She was born the daughter of Congregational minister Jesse Appleton, president of Bowdoin College. After Rev. Appleton's death, her mother moved the family to Amherst, New Hampshire. Jane then met a Bowdoin graduate, Franklin Pierce, a young lawyer with political ambitions. - Sarah Childress Polk
Sarah Childress Polk (September 4, 1803 - August 14, 1891), wife of James K. Polk, was First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1845 to March 3, 1849. The elder daughter of Captain Joel and Elizabeth Whitsitt Childress, Sarah grew up on a plantation near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. She was schooled first in Nashville, then at what is now Salem College in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, … - Jenna Bush
Jenna Welch Bush (born November 25 1981, in Midland, Texas) is the daughter of U.S. President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. She is the fraternal twin of Barbara. - Julia Gardiner Tyler
Julia Gardiner Tyler (May 4 1820 - July 10 1889), second wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from June 26 1844 to March 4 1845. She was born into the prominent Gardiner family on Gardiner's Island in East Hampton (town), New York. She was a daughter of David Gardiner, a New York State Senator. Julia was trained from earliest childhood for a life in society; she made her debut at 15. - Julia Grant
Julia Boggs Dent Grant (January 26, 1826 - December 14, 1902), wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was First Lady of the United States from 1869 to 1877. - Harriet Lane
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 - July 3, 1903), niece of perpetual bachelor James Buchanan, acted as First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861. Harriet Lane's family was from Franklin County, Pennsylvania. She was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane, a merchant, and Jane Buchanan Lane. An orphan after the death of her father when she was 11 years old (her mother had died two years earlier), she requested that her favourite uncle, James Buchanan, … - Lou Henry Hoover
Lou Henry Hoover (March 29, 1874 - January 7, 1944) was the wife of Herbert Hoover and First Lady of the United States. Admirably equipped to preside at the White House, Lou Henry Hoover brought to it long experience as wife of a man eminent in public affairs at home and abroad. She had shared his interests since they met in a geology lab at Stanford University. She was a freshman, he a senior, and he was fascinated, as he declared later, "by her whimsical mind, … - Helen Herron Taft
Helen Louise Herron Taft (June 2, 1861 - May 22, 1943), usually known as Nellie Taft or Helen Taft, was the wife of William Howard Taft, was First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913. Fourth child of John Williamson Herron (1827-1912) and the former Harriet Collins (1833-1901), she had grown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending a private school in the city. She met William Taft at a sledding party at age 18. - Florence Harding
Florence (Flossie) Mabel Kling deWolfe Harding (August 15 1860 - November 21 1924), wife of Warren G. Harding, was First Lady of the United States from 1921 to 1923. Daughter of the richest man in a small town-Amos Hall Kling, a successful businessman- and his wife Louisa "Louise" Mabel (Bouton) Kling, Florence (Flossie) Mabel Kling was born in Marion, Ohio in 1860. - Lucy Webb Hayes
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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (October 15, 1872 - December 28, 1961), second wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. She has been labeled "the Secret President" and "the first woman to run the government" for the role she played when her husband suffered prolonged and disabling illness. Some even refer to her as "the first female president of the United States". - Elizabeth Monroe
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, born Elizabeth Kortright (June 30 1768 - September 23 1830) was the wife of James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. Descended from an old New York family with Dutch roots, Elizabeth married the 27-year-old James Monroe, then a lawyer, when she was a beautiful girl of 17. Later, while Monroe was posted as envoy to the Court of Versailles in the midst of the French Revolution, … - Anna Harrison
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (July 25, 1775 - February 25, 1864), wife of President William Henry Harrison and the grandmother of President Benjamin Harrison, was nominally First Lady of the United States during her husband's one-month term in 1841, but she never entered the White House. She was born near Morristown, New Jersey on July 25, 1775 to Judge John Cleves and Anna Tuthill Symmes of Long Island. - Letitia Christian Tyler
Letitia Christian Tyler, born Letitia Christian (November 12, 1790 - September 10, 1842), first wife of John Tyler, was First Lady of the United States from 1841 until her death. Letitia Tyler had been confined to an invalid's chair for two years when her husband unexpectedly became President. Nobody had thought of that possibility when he took his oath of office as Vice President on March 4, 1841; indeed, … - Abigail Smith Adams
Abigail Smith Adams (November 11, 1744 - October 28, 1818) was the wife of John Adams, the second President of the United States, and is seen as the first Second Lady of the United States and the second First Lady of the United States though the terms were not coined until after her death. - Ida Saxton McKinley
Ida Saxton McKinley (June 8, 1847 - May 26, 1907), wife of William McKinley, was First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901. She was born in Canton, Ohio, the elder daughter of a prominent, well-to-do family. James A. Saxton, a banker, educated his daughters in local schools and a finishing school, and then sent them to Europe. She met McKinley in 1867, and they soon married. A daughter, Katherine, was born on Christmas Day, 1871; a second, Ida, in April 1873. - Margaret Taylor
Margaret "Peggy" Mackall Smith Taylor (September 21, 1788 - August 14, 1852), wife of Zachary Taylor, was First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850. "Peggy" Smith was born in Calvert County, Maryland, daughter of Ann Mackall and Walter Smith, a major in the American Revolutionary War according to family tradition. In 1809, visiting a sister in Kentucky, she met young Lieutenant Taylor. - Caroline Harrison
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison (October 1, 1832 - October 25, 1892), wife of Benjamin Harrison, was First Lady of the United States from 1889 until her death. Born at Oxford, Ohio, "Carrie" was the second daughter of Mary Potts Neal and the Reverend Dr. John W. Scott, a Presbyterian minister and founder of the Oxford Female Institute. As her father's pupil--brown-haired, petite, witty--she infatuated the reserved young Ben, … - Eliza McCardle Johnson
Elizabeth McCardle Johnson (October 4, 1810 in Greeneville, Tennessee - January 15, 1876 in Greeneville, Tennessee) was the 22nd First Lady of the United States and the wife of Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States. He credits her in teaching him how to read and write, having never gone to school himself. She supported her husband in his political career, but had tried to avoid public appearances. - Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (April 19,1832 - March 14, 1918), wife of James A. Garfield, was First Lady of the United States in 1881. Born to Zeb Rudolph, a leading citizen of Hiram, Ohio, and devout member of the Disciples of Christ, she first met "Jim" Garfield when both attended a nearby school, and they renewed their friendship in 1851 as students at the Western Reserve Eclectic Institute, founded by the Disciples. - Emily Donelson
Emily Tennessee Donelson (June 1, 1807 - December 19, 1836) was the niece of US President Andrew Jackson. She served as White House hostess and unofficial First Lady of the United States from 1829 to 1836.
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