Bio Nancy Reagan
"My life really began when I married my husband," says Nancy Reagan, who happily left an acting career for a...
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Bio Lucy Hayes
There was no inaugural ball in 1877. When Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife left Ohio for Washington, the outcome of...
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Bio Julia Grant
Quite naturally, shy Lieutenant Grant lost his heart to friendly Julia Dent, and made his love known, as he later...
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Bio Anna Harrison
Anna Harrison was too ill to travel when her husband set out from Ohio in 1841 for his inauguration. It was...
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Bio Ida McKinley
There was little resemblance between the petulant invalid who came to the White House with William McKinley in March 1897 and...
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Bio Helen Taft
"Nellie" Herron was born in 1861, and grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. She studied music with enthusiasm, attending a private school...
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Bio Hillary Clinton
During the 1992 presidential campaign, Hillary Rodham Clinton observed, "Our lives are a mixture of different roles. Most of us are...
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Bio Julia Tyler
Born in 1820, Julia Gardiner by the age of 20 was already famous as the "Rose of Long Island." Descended from prominent...
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Bio Ellen Wilson
"I am naturally the most unambitious of women and life in the White House has no attractions for me," Ellen...
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Bio Margaret Taylor
After the election of 1848, a riverboat passenger struck up a conversation with President Zachary Taylor, not knowing his identity. The...
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Bio Florence Harding
Daughter of the richest man in a small town, Florence Mabel Kling was born in Marion, Ohio, in 1860, and grew...
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Bio Edith Wilson
"Secret President," "first woman to run the government" - so legend has labeled a first lady whose role gained unusual...
