Collection The First Ladies
Biographies & Portraits
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Collection The Presidents
Biographies & Portraits
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Bio Mary Arthur McElroy
After the sudden death of his beloved Ellen, Chester A. Arthur would not give anyone the place that would have...
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Bio Angelica Van Buren
Martin Van Buren never remarried after his wife, Hannah, died on February 5, 1819. He entered the White House in 1837 as a...
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Bio Lyndon B. Johnson
A "Great Society" for the American people was the vision of Lyndon Johnson. As president, he obtained passage of one...
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Bio Michelle Obama
“Each of us also comes here tonight," Michelle Obama told the Democratic National Convention in 2008, "by our own improbable journey” and...
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Bio Harriet Lane
Unique among first ladies, Harriet Lane acted as hostess for the only president who never married. James Buchanan was her...
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Bio William McKinley
At the 1896 Republican Convention, in time of depression, the wealthy Cleveland businessman Marcus Alonzo Hanna ensured the nomination of his...
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Bio Martha Jefferson
At age 22, Martha Wayles Skelton was already a widow, an heiress, and a mother whose firstborn son would die in...
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Bio Thomas Jefferson
In the thick of party conflict in 1800, Thomas Jefferson wrote in a private letter, "I have sworn upon the altar...
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Bio Warren G. Harding
Before his nomination, Warren G. Harding declared, "America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not...
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Bio William Henry Harrison
Give him a barrel of hard cider and settle a pension of two thousand a year on him, and my...
