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The first lady of the United States is the hostess of the White House.The position is traditionally filled by the wife of the president of the United States, but, on occasion, the title has been applied to women who were not presidents' wives, such as when the president was a bachelor or widower, or when the wife of the president was unable to fulfill the duties of the first lady.
First first lady to wear trousers in an official first lady portrait. [70] First first lady with an office in the West Wing. [71] First first lady to win a Grammy Award. [72] First first lady to be subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury. [73] First first lady to run for and to win elected office (for senator from New York in 2000). [74]
The first lady of the United States (FLOTUS) is a title typically held by the wife of the president of the United States, concurrent with the president's term in office. Although the first lady's role has never been codified or officially defined, she figures prominently in the political and social life of the United States. [1]
Two of the state's first ladies were daughters, not wives, of governors: Helen Whitaker Fowle served as first lady during the administration of her widowed father, Governor Daniel Gould Fowle, [3] and Angelia Lawrance Morrison served as first lady during the term of her widowed father, Governor Cameron A. Morrison, until his marriage to Sara ...
Pfeiffer’s turn as the one-term first lady of the 1970s marks her return to TV after portraying Ruth Madoff in HBO’s 2017 film The Wizard of Lies. “I knew very little about Betty Ford like ...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Creating the Modern First Lady. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. [78] Morris, S. J. (2001). Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady. New York: Modern Library. [79] [80] Primary sources. The papers of Theodore Roosevelt. The Library of Congress. [81] [82] The Theodore Roosevelt Collection. Harvard ...
Edith Kermit Roosevelt (née Carow; August 6, 1861 – September 30, 1948) was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt and the first lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909. She had previously been the second lady of the United States in 1901 and the first lady of New York from 1899 to 1900.
In the United States, the first spouse is the term used to refer to the spouse of a chief executive—that is, of the spouse of the president of the United States (the first lady of the United States and the first gentleman of the United States) and the spouses of the governors of the 50 U.S. states and U.S. territories (Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and the ...