Abigail Smith Adams
Date of Birth: November 11,1744
Date of Death: October 28, 1818
Age at Death: 73
Married: October 25,1764 ( John Adams)
Children: 5
Dolley Payne Todd Madison
Date of Birth: May 20,1768
Date of Death: July 12,1849
Age at Death: 81
Marriage: September 15,1797 (James Madison)
Children: 2 to John Todd
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
Date of Birth: February 12, 1775
Date of Death: May 14,1852
Age at Death: 77
Marriage: July 26,1797 (John Q. Adams)
Children: 4
Abigail Powers Fillmore
Date of Birth: March 13, 1798
Date of Death: March 30, 1853
Age at Death: 55
Marriage: February 5, 1826 (Millard Fillmore)
Children: 2
Mary Todd Lincoln
Date of Birth: December 13, 1818
Date of Death: July 16, 1882
Age at Death: 63
Married: November 4, 1842 (Abraham Lincoln)
Children: 4
Eliza McCardle Johnson
Date of Birth: October 4, 1810
Date of Death: January 15, 1876
Age at Death: 65
Marriage: May 5, 1827 (Andrew Johnson)
Children: 5
Julia Dent Grant
Date of Birth: January 26, 1826
Date of Death: December 14, 1902
Age at Death: 76
Married: August 22, 1848 (Ulysses Grant)
Children: 4
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
Date of Birth: April 19, 1832
Date of Death: March 14, 1918
Age at Death: 85
Married: November 11, 1858 (James Garfield)
Children: 7
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
Date of Birth: August 30, 1837
Date of Death: January 12, 1880
Age at Death: 42
Marriage: October 25, 1859 (Chester Arthur)
Children: 3
Caroline Lavina Scott Harrison
Date of Birth: October 1, 1832
Date of Death: October 25, 1892
Age at death: 60
Married: October 20, 1853 (Benjamin Harrison)
Children: 2
Frances Folsom Cleveland
Date of Birth: July 21, 1864
Date of Death: October 29, 1947
Age at Death: 83
Marriage: June 2, 1886 (Grover Cleveland)
Children: 5
Ida Saxton McKinley
Date of Birth: June 8, 1847
Date of Death: May 26, 1907
Age at Death: 59
Married: January 25, 1871 (William McKinley)
Children: 2
Edith Carow Roosevelt
Date of Birth: August 6, 1861
Date of Death: September 30, 1948
Age at Death: 87
Marriage: December 2, 1886 (Teddy Roosevelt)
Children: 5
Helen Herron Taft
Date of Birth: June 2, 1861
Date of Death: May 2, 1943
Age at Death: 82
Married: June 19, 1886 (Howard Taft)
Children: 3
Ellen Axson Wilson
Date of Birth: May 15, 1860
Date of Death: August 6, 1914
Age at Death: 54
Marriage: June 24, 1825
Children: 3
Edith Galt Wilson
Date of Birth: October 15, 1872
Date of Death: December 28, 1961
Age at Death: 89
Married: December 18, 1915 (Woodrow Wilson)
Children: none
Florence Kling DeWolfe Harding
Date of Birth: August 15, 1860
Date of Death: November 21, 1924
Age at Death: 64
Marriage: July 8, 1891 (Warren Harding)
Children: 1
Grace Goodhue Coolidge
Date of Birth: January 3, 1879
Date of Death: July 8, 1957
Age at Death: 78
Married: October 4, 1905 (Calvin Coolidge)
Children: 2
Lou Henry Hoover
Date of Birth: March 29, 1875
Date of Death: January 7, 1944
Age at Death: 68
Marriage: February 10, 1899 (Herbert Hoover)
Children: 2
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
Date of Birth: October 11, 1844
Date of Death: November 7, 1962
Age at Death: 78
Marriage: November 7, 1905 (Franklin Roosevelt)
Children: 6
Mary "Mamie" Doud Eisenhower
Date of Birth: November 14, 1896
Date of Death: November 7, 1979
Age at Death: 82
Married: July 1, 1916 (Dwight Eisenhower)
Children: 2
Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
Date of Birth: July 28, 1929
Date of Death: May 19, 1994
Age at Death: 64
Married: September 12, 1953 (John Kennedy)
Children: 3
Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson
Date of Birth: December 22, 1912
Date of Death: still alive
Married: November 17, 1934 (Lyndon Johnson)
Children: 2
Thelma "Pat" Ryan Nixon
Date of Birth: March 16, 1912
Date of Death: June 22, 1993
Age at Death: 81
Marriage: June 21, 1940 (Richard Nixon)
Children: 2
Betty Bloomer Warren Ford
Date of Birth: July 28, 1929
Date of Death: still alive
Married: October 14, 1948 (Gerald Ford)
Children: 4
Rosalynn Smith Carter
Date of Birth: August 18, 1927
Date of Death: still alive
Marriage: July 7, 1946 (Jimmy Carter)
Children: 4
Nancy Davis Reagan
Date of Birth: July 6, 1921
Date of Death: still alive today
Married: March 4, 1952 (Ronald Reagan)
Children: 2
Barbara Pierce Bush
Date of Birth: June 8, 1925
Date of Death: still alive
Marriage: January 6, 1945 (George Bush)
Children: 6
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Date of Birth: October 26, 1947
Date of Death: still alive
Married: October 11, 1975 (Bill Clinton)
Children: 1
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Famous First Ladies and Their Famous Quotes:
Martha Dandridge Custis Washington: " I've learned from experience that the greater
part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not
on our circumstances."
" I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have
that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by
our disposition."
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis: "You have to have been a Republican
to know how good it is to be Democrat."
" I do not think that there are any men who are faithful to their wives."
" If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do well matters very
much."
Hillary Rodham Clinton: " I'm not going to have some reporters pawing
through our papers. We are the president."
Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson: " The First Lady is an unpaid public servant elected by one
person--- her husband."
" Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them."
Edith Galt Wilson: "Woodrow Wilson was first my beloved husband whose life I was trying to save...
after that he was President of the United States."
"I myself never made a single decision regarding the disposition of public affairs. The only
decision that was mine was what was important and what was not; and the very important decision
of when to present matters to my husband."
Abigail Smith Adams: "The earth is mankind's ultimate haven, our blessed terra firma. When it
trembles and gives way beneath our feet, it's as though one of God's cheques has bounced.
Dolley Payne Todd Madison: "I prefer to fight with my hands than with my tongue."
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson: "Property as compared with humanity, as compared with the red blood
in the American people, must take second place, not first place.
"Long a child, longer a diffident youth."
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt: "He did his job to the end as he would want you to do."
"You always admire what you really understand."
Rosalynn Smith Carter: "One administration will be more pink, another more yellow."
" The reason good women like me and flock to my pictures is that there is a little bit of
vampire instinct in every woman.
Barbara Pierce Bush: "I want a kinder, gentler nation."
"Read my lips: no new taxes."
"The cold war began with the division of Europe. It can only end when Europe is whole."
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Notable Quotes by Presidents' Wives/First Ladies--Cleveland to Bush,
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/1402/quote2.html, M. Myers, 01/09/2005
Born To Motivate, Martha Washington famous quote, inspirational story,
http://www.borntomotivate.com/Marthawashington.html,12/06/2004
Born To Motivate, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis famous quote, inspirational story,
http://www.borntomotivate.com/JacquelineKennedyOnassis.html,12/06/2004
Liberty-Tree.ca, Hillary Clinton, Famous Quotation/Quote,
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quotes.nsf/quotes/88b4599576df5f85256cdb0010730b,12/06/2004
First Ladies
Author: Amy Pastan
Publisher: Andrew Berkhut
year Published: 2001
publishing company: Dorling Kindersley