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American first ladies : their lives and their legacy /

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Gould, Lewis L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Garland Pub., 1996.
Subjects:
Presidents' spouses > United States.
Presidents > Wives > History
United States
Table of Contents:
  • The first lady as symbol and institution
  • Martha (Dandridge Custis) Washington (1731-1802) : first lady, 1789-1797 / Patricia Brady
  • Abigail (Smith) Adams (1744-1818) : first lady, 1797-1801 / Phyllis Lee Levin
  • Dolley (Payne Todd) Madison (1768-1849) : first lady, 1809-1817 / Holly Cowan Shulman
  • Elizabeth (Kortright) Monroe (1768-1830) : first lady, 1817-1825 / Julie K. Fix
  • Louisa (Catherine Johnson) Adams (1775-1852) : first lady, 1825-1829 / Lynn Hudson Parsons
  • Anna (Tuthill Symmes) Harrison (1775-1864) : first lady, March 4-April 4, 1841 / Nancy Beck Young
  • Letitia (Christian) Tyler (1790-1842) : first lady, 1841-1842 ; Julia (Gardiner) Tyler (1820-1889) : first lady, 1844-1845 / Melba Porter Hay
  • Sarah (Childress) Polk (1803-1891) : first lady, 1845-1849 / Jayne Crumpler DeFiore
  • Margaret (Mackall Smith) Taylor (1788-1852) : first lady, 1849-1850 / Thomas H. Appleton, Jr.
  • Abigail (Powers) Fillmore (1798-1853) : first lady, 1850-1853 / Kristin Hoganson
  • Jane (Means Appleton) Pierce (1806-1863) : first lady, 1853-1857 / Debbie Mauldin Cottrell
  • Mary (Ann) Todd Lincoln (1818-1882) : first lady, 1861-1865 / Jean H. Baker
  • Eliza (McCardle) Johnson (1810-1876) : first lady, 1865-1869 / Nancy Beck Young
  • Julia (Dent) Grant (1826-1902) : first lady, 1869-1877 / John Y. Simon
  • Lucy (Ware) Webb Hayes (1831-1889) : first lady, 1877-1881 / Olive Hoogenboom
  • Lucretia (Rudolph) Garfield (1832-1918) : first lady, March 4, 1881-September 19, 1881 / Allan Peskin
  • Frances (Clara) Folsom Cleveland (1864-1947) : first lady, 1886-1889, 1893-1897 / Sue Severn
  • Caroline (Lavinia) Scott Harrison (1832-1892) : first lady, 1889-1892 / Charles W. Calhoun
  • Ida Saxton McKinley (1847-1907) : first lady, 1897-1901 / John J. Leffler
  • Edith Kermit (Carow) Roosevelt (1861-1948) : first lady, 1901-1909 ; Helen Herron (Nellie) Taft (1861-1943) : first lady, 1909-1913 / Stacy A. Cordery
  • Ellen (Louise) Axson Wilson (1860-1914) : first lady, 1913-1914 / Shelley Sallee
  • Edith Bolling (Galt) Wilson (1872-1961) : first lady, 1915-1921 / Lewis L. Gould
  • Florence (Mabel) Kling Harding (1860-1924) : first lady, 1921-1923 / Carl Sferrazza Anthony
  • Grace (Anna) Goodhue Coolidge (1879-1957) : first lady, 1923-1929 / Kristie Miller
  • Lou Henry Hoover (1874-1944) : first lady, 1929-1933 / Debbie Mauldin Cottrell
  • (Anna) Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) : first lady, 1933-1945 / Allida M. Black
  • Bess (Elizabeth Virginia Wallace) Truman (1885-1982) : first lady, 1945-1953 / Maurine H. Beasley
  • Mamie (Geneva Doud) Eisenhower (1896-1979) : first lady, 1953-1961 / Martin M. Teasley
  • Jacqueline (Lee Bouvier) Kennedy (Onassis) (1929-1994) : first lady, 1961-1963 / Betty Boyd Caroli
  • Lady Bird (Claudia Alta Taylor) Johnson (1912- ) : first lady, 1963-1969 / Lewis L. Gould
  • Patricia (Thelma Catherine Ryan) Nixon (1912-1993) : first lady, 1969-1974 / Carl Sferrazza Anthony
  • Betty (Elizabeth Ann Bloomer) Ford (1918- ) : first lady, 1974-1977 / John Pope
  • (Eleanor) Rosalynn (Smith) Carter (1927- ) : first lady, 1977-1981 / Kathy B. Smith
  • Nancy (Anne Frances Robbins Davis) Reagan (1921- ) : first lady, 1981-1989 / James G. Benze, Jr.
  • Barbara (Pierce) Bush (1925- ) : first lady, 1989-1993 / Myra Gutin
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton (1947- ) : first lady, 1993- / Lewis L. Gould.