Show wives ves of chief executives women who have worthily occupied the trying position of mistresses distresses Mi stresses of the white house as first lady and their maiden names the names of the presidents wives wires and ohear aela names before marriage tire are thus recorded martha washington wn wa s born martha dandridge dandradge tho the daughter of a virginia planter and was the widow of daniel parke custas when she was married to the first president john adams adama married abigail smith laughter daughter of a congregational minister of weymouth mass blass mrs jet jef aerson and mrs airs bandison Bin dison like martha washington had both licen been previously married martha wayles alist died before she was twenty and at twenty four she mar alei jefferson polly dolly madison wits horn born dolly payne and later became the wife of john todd a pennsyl vania lawyer who died in 1703 1793 iella of new york aorl city married james monroe in 1785 1786 L mrs john quincy adams was louls i catherine johnson of english birth rachel donolson donelson robards was the divorced wife of an army she married jackson twice once before the divorce had been granted her husband she died before jackson went into the white house alannah IIan nali aloes was a distant blood relative as well na as the wife of the th eighth president martin van buren william henry harrlson harrison married anna symmes a laughter daughter of the founder of cincinnati president tyler was married awl flis first wife letitia C christian died in the white house while his hi second whom he married in new york city during his big presidential term lie met in the executive mansion after the body of her father killed on a warship on the potomac had ad been taken there she was julia gardiner then twenty four sarah childress of murfreesboro tenn became mrs polk mrs taylor was margaret smith of calvert county maryland Pill Fill mores first wife was abigail powers of new york Ms his second who had niso been married before caroline carmichael SIc Intosh of new jersey franklin pierce married june jane means alph ton daughter of a president of bowdoin college buchanan chanan nu was unmarried mary blary todd of a pioneer kentucky family became abraham Lincol ns wife johnsons was kulza eilza mccardle McCard lc who had taught him to write mrs mm grant before her marriage was julia dent daughter of a st louls louis judge lucy ware webb of chilli ohio was president ilayev wife and lucretia Luc retla rudolph of gar was president arthur married ellen lewis clerndon of new york cleveland frances folsom of buffalo in the white house while benjamin laon was twice married his first wife being caroline lavinia scott of oxford ohto ohio who tied died in the executive mansion and his second mrs mary alary scott lord dimmick widow and the niece of the first mrs alm harrison arrison II ida saxton of canton became mrs alm william AlcK mckenley luley Roosevel ts first wife was alice hathaway lee of boston his second edith kermit karow of oc new york william IL II taft married helen heron of cincinnati woodrow wilsons Wll Wil sons first wife ans ellen louise axson of rome ga the second edith rolling bolling of Wyth wytheville eville va the widow of nor man galt gait a washington jeweler florence kling dewolfe was divorced when she married warren G 1 hording harding mrs airs coolidge was bom grace goodhue of burlington vt mrs hoover was born lou henry at waterloo towa iowa and mrs roose velt anna eleanor roosevelt Roos eveH new york city cleveland plain dealer |