The First Ladies

  • The First Ladies
    The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor

    Brief biographies and portraits of wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.

  • The First Ladies
    The First Ladies
    By Susan Clinton

    Calvin Coolidge ( 1923-29 ) the 1920s , First Lady Grace Coolidge refused to make any speeches . When reporters put her on the spot , she jokingly used sign language . Politics were still off - limits for the First Lady . Why ?

  • The First Ladies
    The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor, Allida Mae Black

    1877-1881 Lucy Ware Webb Hayes 1831-1889 There here was no inaugural ball in 1877 – when Rutherford B. Hayes and his wife , Lucy , left Ohio for Washington , the outcome of the election was still in doubt . Public fears had not subsided ...

  • The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor

    The First Ladies

  • The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor, Allida Black

    From Martha Washington to Laura Welch Bush, this beautifully illustrated book features biographies & portraits of the women who have fulfilled the role of White House hostesses during the administration...

  • The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor, National Geographic Society, White House Historical Association

    Brief biographies and portraits of forty-two wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Barbara Bush.

  • The First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, An Intimate Portrait of the Women Who Shaped America
    The First Ladies: From Martha Washington to Mamie Eisenhower, An Intimate Portrait of the Women Who Shaped America
    By Feather Schwartz Foster

    slave owners. Three brothers, a brother-in-law, a few cousins, and more kin of kin fought and some would die for the Confederacy. Many Northerners were convinced that Mary was a Rebel spy. She wasn't.

  • The First Ladies
    The First Ladies
    By Margaret Brown Klapthor

    Brief biographies and portraits of wives, sisters, daughters, nieces, and other relatives of Presidents who have served as White House hostesses, from Martha Washington to Hillary Clinton.

  • The First Ladies
    The First Ladies
    By Sol Barzman

    Intimate biographical portraits of the Presidents' wives from Martha Washington to Pat Nixon.