Collection The First Ladies
Biographies & Portraits
Ellen Wilson
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- Portrait
Ellen Wilson
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First Ladies' Private Lives
In the early decades of the republic a president's wife, like other wives, seldom displayed her private life to the...
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The First Ladies Timeline
Martha WashingtonAbigail AdamsMartha JeffersonDolley MadisonElizabeth MonroeLouisa AdamsRachel Jackson / Emily DonelsonHannah Van Buren / Angelica Van BurenAnna Harrison / Jane HarrisonLetitia Tyler / Julia...
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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 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 Caroline Harrison
The centennial of President Washington's inauguration heightened the nation's interest in its heroic past, and in 1890 Caroline Scott Harrison lent h...
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Bio Ellen Arthur
Chester Alan Arthur's beloved "Nell" died of pneumonia on January 12, 1880. That November, when he was elected vice president, he was...
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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 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 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 Abigail Powers Fillmore
First of the first ladies to hold a job after marriage, Abigail Fillmore was helping her husband's career. She was...
