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Their personalities often set the tone for Washington society, from Julia Tyler's open hospitality to Sarah Polk's somber religious devotion. Some, like Abigail Adams, had little formal schooling. Others, such as Pat Nixon and Hillary Clinton, earned college degrees. There were those who outlived their spouses as well as women who died before seeing their husbands realize their presidential dreams. In spite of differing circumstances, these presidential wives influenced--sometimes overtly and often inadvertently--everything from domestic political agendas to foreign policy through their relationships with their husbands.
This book discusses the lives and circumstances of the women who have been married to an American president. It emphasizes the relationship each wife had with her husband and the ways in which this contributed to the success or failure of his presidency. Details include birthplace, upbringing, political viewpoints and final resting place. Chapters are also included on women such as Hannah Van Buren and Jane Wyman, who although married to men who eventually became president, never became first lady.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
2. Abigail Smith Adams
3. Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
4. Dorothea (Dolley) Payne Todd Madison
5. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
6. Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
7. Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson
8. Hannah Hoes Van Buren
9. Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
10. Letitia Christian Tyler
11. Julia Gardiner Tyler
12. Sarah Childress Polk
13. Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
14. Abigail Powers Fillmore
15. Caroline Carmichael McIntosh Fillmore
16. Jane Means Appleton Pierce
17. Mary Todd Lincoln
18. Eliza McCardle Johnson
19. Julia Boggs Dent Grant
20. Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
21. Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
22. Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
23. Frances Folsom Cleveland
24. Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison
25. Mary Scott Lord Dimmick Harrison
26. Ida Saxton McKinley
27. Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
28. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt
29. Helen Herron Taft
30. Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
31. Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
32. Florence Mabel Kling De Wolfe Harding
33. Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
34. Lou Henry Hoover
35. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt
36. Elizabeth Virginia (Bess) Wallace Truman
37. Mary Geneva (Mamie) Doud Eisenhower
38. Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
39. Claudia (Lady Bird) Taylor Johnson
40. Thelma Catherine (Patricia) Ryan Nixon
41. Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer Ford
42. Rosalynn Smith Carter
43. Sarah Jane Fulks Wyman (Reagan)
44. Nancy Davis (Anne Frances Robbins) Reagan
45. Barbara Pierce Bush
46. Hillary Rodham Clinton
47. Laura Welch Bush
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