Bibliograph

First ladies, a biographical dictionary, Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider

Type

Label

First ladies, a biographical dictionary, Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

resource.interestGradeLevel

Young Adult, Follett Library ResourcesYoung Adult

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

First ladies

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Responsibility statement

Dorothy Schneider, Carl J. Schneider

Series statement

Facts on File library of American history

Sub title

a biographical dictionary

Summary

Chronologically arranged entries profiling America's first ladies, from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama, including biographical information and explaining their roles and responsibilities in the White House

Table Of Contents

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington -- Abigail Smith Adams -- Dolley Payne Todd Madison -- Elizabeth Kortright Monroe -- Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams -- Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison -- Letitia Christian Tyler -- Julia Gardiner Tyler -- Sarah Childress Polk -- Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor -- Abigail Powers Fillmore -- Jane Means Appleton Pierce -- Mary Ann Todd Lincoln -- Eliza McCardle Johnson -- Julia Dent Grant -- Lucy Ware Webb Hayes -- Lucretia Rudolph Garfield -- Frances (Frank) Folsom Cleveland -- Caroline (Carrie) Lavinia Scott Harrison -- Ida Saxton McKinley -- Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt -- Helen (Nellie) Herron Taft -- Ellen Louise Axson Wilson -- Edith Bolling Galt Wilson -- Florence Mabel Kling Harding -- Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge -- Lou Henry Hoover -- Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt -- Elizabeth (Bess) Virginia Wallace Truman -- Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower -- Jacqueline Lee (Jackie) Bouvier Kennedy -- Claudia Alta Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson -- Thelma Catherine (Pat) Ryan Nixon -- Elizabeth Ann (Betty) Bloomer Warren Ford -- Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter -- Anne Francis (Nancy) Robbins Davis Reagan -- Barbara Pierce Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Laura Welch Bush -- Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama -- Presidential spouses who did not live to be first ladies -- White House hostesses -- First lady firsts -- First ladies' reflections on the position and on other first ladies

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