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Buchanan is the only U.S. President who remained a lifelong bachelor, leading some later historians and authors to speculate that he may have had a same-sex orientation. As President, Buchanan intervened to assure the Supreme Court's majority ruling in the pro-slavery decision in the Dred Scott case.
Several presidents were unmarried for all or part of their administration. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Chester A. Arthur, and Martin Van Buren were widowed prior to becoming president and remained unmarried during their administration; in these cases, family members acted in the place of First Lady and White House host.
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston (May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903) acted as first lady of the United States during the administration of her uncle, lifelong bachelor president James Buchanan, from 1857 to 1861. She has been described as the first of the modern first ladies, being a notably charming and diplomatic hostess, whose dress-styles were ...
The first president, George Washington, won a unanimous vote of the Electoral College. [4] Grover Cleveland served two non-consecutive terms and is therefore counted as the 22nd and 24th president of the United States, giving rise to the discrepancy between the number of presidencies and the number of individuals who have served as president. [5]
In a new state, she taught college law, became the first woman to make partner at her firm, and gave birth to a girl, named Chelsea. The William J. Clinton Presidential Library Source: Washington ...
Casper met Rice during this search, and was so impressed that in 1993, he appointed her as Stanford's provost, the chief budget and academic officer of the university in 1993 [33] and she also was granted tenure and became full professor. [34] Rice was the first female, first African-American, and youngest provost in Stanford's history.
They were the first women voted for as candidates for president at the national convention of a major American political party. [9] Former Wyoming Governor Nellie Tayloe Ross was a candidate for vice president at the 1928 Democratic National Convention. Her name was mentioned as a potential candidate as early as 1927, and the possibility of her ...
Madam Vice President Aunty Kamala Harris. I’m crying. You can’t see me. But I am. It’s very hard to type. The Vice President of the United States is, for the first time in history, a woman ...