Show wives of chief execute executives ives women nomen who have worthily occupied the trying position i of mistresses distresses Mi stresses of the white while house as first lady and their maiden names i the names of the presidents wives and their names before marriage mariage are thus recorded martha washington was born martha dandridge the daughter of a virginia planter and was the widow of daniel parke custis when she was married t to 0 the first president john adams married abigail smith daughter of a con congregational gregat lonal minister of W woy weymouth ey mouth mass mrs jefferson and mrs airs madison like martha washington had both been previously married martha wayles first husband died before she eho was twenty and at twenty four she married Jef jefferson Terson dolly madison was horn born dolly payne and later became the wife of john todd a pennsylvania lawyer who died in 1703 ellza eliza Nort cortwright wright of new york city married james monroe in 1780 mrs john quincy adams was wac louesa catherine johnson of english birth rachel donelson robards was the divorced wife of an army officer she married jackson twice once before the divorce had been granted her hug husband hand she died before jackson went into the white house hannah noes hoes was a distant blood relative as well as the wife of the eighth president martin van buren william henry harrlson harrison married anna na symmes Sv nimes a daughter of the founder of cincinnati Prel president dent tyler was married twice ills his first wife letitia C christian died in the white house white while his hi second whom he married in new york city during his bla presidential term he be met in n the executive mansion after the body of her father killed hilled on a warship on the potomac had been taken there she was julia gardiner then twenty four sarah childress of murfreesboro tenn became mrs airs polk mrs taylor was margaret smith of calvert county maryland Fill mores first wife was abigail powers of new york his second who had bad also been married before caroline carmichael Carrol chael mcintosh of new jersey franklin pierce married jane means appleton daughter of a president of bowdoin college buchanan was unmarried mary todd of a pioneer kentucky family became abraham Lincol ns wife johnsons wadeliza was ellza Eliza mccardle who had taught him to write mrs grant before her marriage was wai tulla julia dent daughter of a st louis judge lucy ware webb of chilel ohio was president hayes wife and lucretia Luc retla rudolph of gar vIlle was president arthur married ellen lewis lewie herndon of new york cleveland frances folsom of buffalo in the white H house ouse while benjamin marrison was twice married his first wife being caroline Ln vitila scott of oxford ohio who died in the ex mansion and hla his second mrs mary scott L lord ord dimmick a widow and the niece of the first mrs mra harrlson harrison ida saxton of canton became mrs william mckinley Roosevel ts first wife was alice hathaway lee of boston his second edith demit karow harow of new york william H taft married helen heron of cincinnati cincinnat 1 woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons first wife was ellen louise axson of rome ga the second edith bolling boiling of wytheville Wyth eville va the widow of norman galt gait a washington jeweler F lorence florence kling dewolfe was divorced when she married warren 0 harddng mrs coolidge was wag born grace goodhue of burlington vt VL mrs hoover was born lou loa henry at waterloo iowa and mrs airs roose velt anna eleanor roosevelt new york city cleveland plain dealer I 1 |