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• The First Ladies Timeline

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• First Ladies' Private Lives

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  Bio Louisa Adams

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  Bio Julia Tyler

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  Bio Jacqueline Kennedy

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  Bio Abigail Adams

  Inheriting New England's strongest traditions, Abigail Smith was born on November 11, 1744 at Weymouth, Massachusetts. On her mother's side she was...

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  Bio Elizabeth Monroe

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  Bio Claudia Johnson

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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 Ellen Wilson

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  Bio Frances Cleveland

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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...