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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 ...
Harriet Rebecca Lane Johnston, née Lane; May 9, 1830 – July 3, 1903; She was the niece of James Buchanan. Buchanan was never married and Harriet Lane acted as First Lady during his presidency. Relatively little has been written about Harriet Lane. For information about her, see the Bibliography of James Buchanan.
Harriet Lane was a revenue cutter of the United States Revenue Cutter Service and, on the outbreak of the American Civil War, a ship of the United States Navy and later Confederate States Navy. The craft was named after the niece of senator and later United States President, James Buchanan ; during his presidency, she acted as First Lady.
In 1750, he took the additional name of Lane by an Act of Parliament in 1750, on succeeding to the estates of his maternal half-uncle, James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough. [ 3 ] On 13 May 1762, Lane-Fox's father-in-law's extinct title was re-created, when he was created Baron Bingley , of Bingley in the County of York , with remainder only to ...
The Harriet Lane is a 40-year-old, 270-foot Medium ... The Coast Guard's Honolulu -based "Indo-Pacific Support Cutter " CGC Harriet Lane returned to port Tuesday after its first patrol across ...
His son and heir, Robert Fox-Lane, Member of Parliament for York, predeceased him in 1768 and the barony consequently became extinct on Lord Bingley's death in 1773. The most recent creation came in the Peerage of the United Kingdom in 1933, when the Conservative politician George Lane-Fox, was created Baron Bingley, of Bramham in the County of ...
George Pitt (died 1735) Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers (died 1712) John Savage, 5th Earl Rivers (1665–1737) James Lane, 2nd Viscount Lanesborough (1650–1724) Robert Benson, 1st Baron Bingley (died 1731) Frances Lane (died 1674) Henry Fox (1650-1719) George Pitt (died 1745) Harriet Benson (died 1771) George Fox-Lane, 1st Baron Bingley {died ...
During the President's term, there was no First Lady. The President's wife died of tuberculosis much earlier in 1819. Their oldest son Abraham had a wife, Angelica Singleton Van Buren (a cousin of Dolley Madison), who assumed the duties of hostess at White House functions. 9 Family of William Henry Harrison: March 4, 1841 — April 4, 1841