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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.
She is the first spouse since Barbara Bush to hold the positions of both Second Lady and First Lady and is the first one since Pat Nixon to hold them non-consecutively. [123] [124] At the age of 69, Biden was the oldest first lady to assume the role. [125] She is also the first Italian American first lady.
Marjorie Rendell - former first lady of Pennsylvania; federal judge for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Stefan Roots - mayor of Chester, Pennsylvania; John G. Rowland - former Connecticut governor, 1995–2004 [16] Matthew J. Ryan - former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of ...
America's newest first lady, Melania Trump, is perhaps the most unique president's wife to ever hold the position. The Slovenian born former model married President Trump in 2005, and later had ...
First first lady to attend an Ivy League university for her undergraduate degree. She majored in sociology and minored in African-American studies at Princeton University. [86] [87] [88] First first lady to announce the winner of an Oscar (Best Picture which went to Argo). [89] First first lady to host the Girl Scouts campout at the White House ...
Melania Trump has been in the public eye since the 1990s. Her style has evolved as she went from a model and Donald Trump's girlfriend to first lady.
In May 1929, she became the first first lady to appear in Vogue, Katherine A.S. Sibley wrote in "A Companion to First Ladies." Eleanor Roosevelt, 1933. Eleanor Roosevelt.
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 ...