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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) served as the first lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky , although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery .
The following is a list of works about the spouses of presidents of the United States. While this list is mainly about presidential spouses, administrations with a bachelor or widowed president have a section on the individual (usually a family member) that filled the role of First Lady.
The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
Many of the facts of her life are lost to history, but some historians believe that she was the first love of Abraham Lincoln. The exact nature of the Lincoln–Rutledge relationship has been debated by historians and non-historians since 1866. John McNamar (aka McNeil, 1801–1879), [1] was, according to his son, engaged to marry Ann Rutledge.
First first lady to live to see a son become president. [64] [65] First first lady to have lived at both Number One Observatory Circle and the White House. [66] [67] First first lady to hire an African-American as her press secretary. [68] First first lady to throw out a ball to open the baseball season. [68]
Greene later told William Herndon, Lincoln’s law partner and earliest biographer, that he shared a narrow cot with the future president for roughly 18 months.
America's newest first lady, Melania Trump, is perhaps the most unique president's wife to ever hold the position. The Slovenian born former model married President Trump in 2005, and later had ...
There were two First Ladies during the Wilson Administration. The President's first wife, Ellen, died at the White House on August 6, 1914, due to complications of Bright's disease. The following year, the President married his second wife, Edith.