The First Ladies of the United States of America

by Klapthor, Margaret Brown

• ISBN13: 9781857594102
• ISBN10: 185759410X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-04-30
• Publisher: Scala Books

Summary

Not all first ladies have been wives of the presidents. Sisters, daughters, nieces and other relatives have assumed the responsibility of the White House hostess, or shared it as necessity required, oftenn for widowed and bachelor presidents. Each woman

Table of Contents

Foreword	3	(3)
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington	6	(2)
Abigail Smith Adams	8	(2)
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson	10	(2)
Dolley Payne Todd Madison	12	(2)
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe	14	(2)
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams	16	(2)
Rachel Donelson Jackson	18	(2)
Hannah Hoes Van Buren	20	(2)
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison	22	(2)
Letitia Christian Tyler	24	(2)
Julia Gardiner Tyler	26	(2)
Sarah Childress Polk	28	(2)
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor	30	(2)
Abigail Powers Fillmore	32	(2)
Jane Means Appleton Pierce	34	(2)
Harriet Lane	36	(2)
Mary Todd Lincoln	38	(2)
Eliza McCardle Johnson	40	(2)
Julia Dent Grant	42	(2)
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes	44	(2)
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield	46	(2)
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur	48	(2)
Frances Folsom Cleveland	50	(2)
Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison	52	(2)
Ida Saxton McKinley	54	(2)
Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt	56	(2)
Helen Herron Taft	58	(2)
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson	60	(2)
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson	62	(2)
Florence Kling Harding	64	(2)
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge	66	(2)
Lou Henry Hoover	68	(2)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt	70	(2)
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman	72	(2)
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower	74	(2)
Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis	76	(2)
Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson	78	(2)
Patricia Ryan Nixon	80	(2)
Elizabeth Bloomer Ford	82	(2)
Rosalynn Smith Carter	84	(2)
Nancy Davis Reagan	86	(2)
Barbara Pierce Bush	88	(2)
Hillary Rodham Clinton	90	(2)
Laura Welch Bush	92	(2)
Index	94