Our country's first ladies

About the first ladies: Introduction

Founding mothers

Martha Washington

Abigail Adams

Martha Jefferson

Dolly Madison

Elizabeth Monroe

Louisa Adams

Aura of Youth

Rachel Jackson

Hannah Van Buren

Anna Harrison

Letitia Tyler

Julia Tyler

Sarah Polk

Margaret Taylor

Abigail Fillmore

Jane Pierce

Harriet Lane

Emerging political partners

Mary Todd Lincoln

Eliza Johnson

Julia Grant

Lucy Hayes

Lucretia Garfield

Ellen Arthur

Frances Cleveland

Caroline Harrison

Ida McKinley

First ladies in name and deed

Edith Roosevelt

Helen Taft

Ellen Wilson

Edith Wilson

Florence Harding

Grace Coolidge

Lou Hoover

Lives of public service

Eleanor Roosevelt

Bess Truman

Mamie Eisenhower

Jacqueline Kennedy

Lady Bird Johnson

Pat Nixon

Betty Ford

Rosalyn Carter

Each her own woman

Nancy Reagan

Barbara Bush

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Laura Bush

Facts at a glance

Resources and credits

Index.