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American First Ladies

AMERICAN FIRST LADIES

Their Lives and Their Legacy

edited by LEWIS L. GOULD

First published 1996 by Garland Publishing, Inc.

This edition first published in 2021 by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10017 and by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business

Copyright 1996 Lewis L. Gould

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

Notice: Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademark, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe.

Publisher's Note The publisher has gone to great lengths to ensure the quality of this reprint but points out that some imperfections in the original copies may be apparent.

Disclaimer The publisher has made every effort to trace copyright holders and welcomes correspondence from those they have been unable to contact.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

American first ladies : their lives and their legacy / [edited by] Lewis L. Gould. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8153-1479-5 (alk. paper) 1. Presidents' spousesUnited States. I. Gould, Lewis L. E176.2.A44 1996 973'.082dc20

95-45052 CIP

Cover design by Lawrence Wolfson Design, New York.

ISBN 13: 978-1-03-216516-5 (hbk) ISBN 13: 978-1-03-216663-6 (pbk) ISBN 13: 978-1-00-324897-2 (ebk)

DOI: 10.4324/9781003248972

Contents

Lewis L. Gould

Patricia Brady

Abigail Adams

Phyllis Lee Levin

Dolley Madison

Holly Cowan Shulman

Elizabeth Monroe

Julie K. Fix

Louisa Adams

Lynn Hudson Parsons

Anna Harrison

Nancy Beck Young

Letitia Tyler

Melba Porter Hay

Julia Tyler

Melba Porter Hay

Sarah Polk

Jayne Crumpler DeFiore

Margaret Taylor

Thomas H. Appleton Jr.

Abigail Fillmore

Kristin Hoganson

Jane Pierce

Debbie Mauldin Cottrell

Mary Todd Lincoln

Jean H. Baker

Eliza Johnson

Nancy Beck Young

Julia Grant

John Y. Simon

Lucy Webb Hayes

Olive Hoogenboom

Lucretia Garfield

Allan Peskin

Frances Folsom Cleveland

Sue Severn

Caroline Scott Harrison

Charles W. Calhoun

Ida Saxton McKinley

John J. Leffler

Edith Kermit Roosevelt

Stacy A. Cordery

Helen Herron Taft

Stacy A. Cordery

Ellen Axson Wilson

Shelley Sallee

Edith Bolling Wilson

Lewis L. Gould

Florence Kling Harding

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Grace Goodhue Coolidge

Kiistie Miller

Lou Henry Hoover

Debbie Mauldin Cottrell

Eleanor Roosevelt

Allida M. Black

Bess Truman

Maurine H. Beasley

Mamie Eisenhower

Martin M. Teasley

Jacqueline Kennedy

Betty Boyd Caroli

Lady Bird Johnson

Lewis L. Gould

Patricia Nixon

Carl Sferrazza Anthony

Betty Ford

John Pope

Rosalynn Carter

Kathy B. Smith

Nancy Reagan

James G. Benze Jr.

Barbara Bush

Myra Gutin

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Lewis L. Gould

1. Abigail Adams
2. Dolley Madison
3. Elizabeth Monroe
4. Louisa Adams
5. Anna Harrison
6. Letitia Tyler
7. Julia Tyler
8. Sarah Polk
9. Margaret Taylor
10. Abigail Fillmore
11. Jane Pierce
12. Mary Todd Lincoln
13. Eliza Johnson
14. Julia Grant
15. Lucy Webb Hayes
16. Lucretia Garfield
17. Frances Folsom Cleveland
18. Caroline Scott Harrison
19. Ida Saxton McKinley
20. Edith Kermit Roosevelt
21. Helen Herron Taft
22. Ellen Axson Wilson
23. Edith Bolling Wilson
24. Florence Kling Harding
25. Grace Goodhue Coolidge
26. Lou Henry Hoover
27. Eleanor Roosevelt
28. Bess Truman
29. Mamie Eisenhower
30. Jacqueline Kennedy
31. Lady Bird Johnson
32. Patricia Nixon
33. Betty Ford
34. Rosalynn Carter
35. Nancy Reagan
36. Barbara Bush
37. Hillary Rodham Clinton

Guide

Acknowledgments

Christopher Collins of Garland first asked me to embark on this project and was a source of encouragement throughout its early stages. Dr. Phyllis Korper of Garland saw the book through to completion. All of the contributors worked hard to make the book a success, but I owe special thanks to Thomas H. Appleton Jr., Stacy Cordery, Kristie Miller, and Nancy Beck Young for their individual efforts in the book's behalf. Lisa Caputo of Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton's staff offered valuable criticisms of the essay on Mrs. Clinton. However, the responsibility for the final version of that essay is mine alone.

The staffs of the Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin, the Jimmy Carter Library, the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library, the Gerald R. Ford Library, the Herbert Hoover Library, the Nixon Presidential Papers Project at the National Archives, the James K. Polk Birthplace, the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library, and the Harry S. Truman Library were most helpful in supplying photographs. The White House furnished the photograph of Hillary Rodham Clinton. The First Ladies Polls are included courtesy of the Siena Research Institute, Siena College, Loudonville, New York, which retains full rights to publication and reproduction of these poll results in the future.

Karen Gould was a constant source of support and care throughout the process of editing this volume.

Lewis L. Gould Austin, Texas

The First Lady as Symbol and Institution

Since the early 1980s historians, journalists, and popular writers have devoted serious attention to the role of the wife of the president of the United States in national politics and cultural life. Earlier there had been individual works that considered the place of the First Lady in American history, including Marianne Means, The Woman in the White House (1963), and Sol Barzman, The First Ladies (1970). These and other books on the First Ladies, however, drew only rarely on personal papers and original documents. For the most part they were selective and anecdotal as well.

During the past decade and a half numerous studies of the First Lady have attempted to identify the impact of these women on American history. Authors such as Betty Boyd Caroli, First Ladies (1986), Myra Gutin, The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century (1989), and Carl Sferrazza Anthony, First Ladies (2 vols., 19901991) have scrutinized the institution based on extensive research into primary sources. Simultaneously, college courses on the First Lady have been offered, symposia have brought together former First Ladies to discuss their legacy, and scholarly panels have been held to measure the significance of presidential wives. By the early 1990s the outlines of a distinct research area devoted to First Ladies had emerged where history, political science, and women's studies intersected.

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