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 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 Grace Coolidge
For her "fine personal influence exerted as First Lady of the Land," Grace Coolidge received a gold medal from the...
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Bio Jane Harrison
When William Henry Harrison's wife decided not to go to Washington with him, the president-elect asked his daughter-in-law Jane Irwin...
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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 Patricia Nixon
Born Thelma Catherine Ryan on March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nevada, "Pat" Nixon acquired her nickname within hours. Her father called her...
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Bio Mary Lincoln
As a girlhood companion remembered her, Mary Todd was vivacious and impulsive, but "she now and then could not restrain...
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Bio Melania Trump
First Lady of the United States Melania Trump is the wife of President Donald J. Trump and the mother of...
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Bio Eleanor Roosevelt
A shy, awkward child, starved for recognition and love, Eleanor Roosevelt grew into a woman with great sensitivity to the...
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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 Abigail Powers Fillmore
First of the first ladies to hold a job after marriage, Abigail Fillmore was helping her husband's career. She was...
