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What US First Ladies were not the first wife of the President?
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2) Edith Roosevelt - Married Theodore Roosevelt 2 Dec 1886 - First wife, Alice, died in 1884
3) Edith Galt Wilson - married Woodrow Wilson 18 Dec 1915 - First wife, Ellen died 26 June 1914.
4) Nancy Reagan - Married Ronald Reagan 4 March 1952 - First wife, Jane Wyman, divorced 1949
No wife of a president was given that title before 1877. The first wife of a U.S. president to be referred to as "First Lady" was Lucy Webb Hayes. This was incorrect however, but the honorary title for presidents' wives who came after her stuck. This is not a political statement, but simply one of historical reference. The "First Lady" was always the spouse of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Those who serve on the Supreme Court have their jobs until they die, or retire if they so choose. They are the only such lifetime jobs our government offers. The Presidency was then, and still is, simply a "temp job".
Writers of etiquette books, and those in Washington society, were horrified in 1877 when newspaper journalist Mary C. Ames referred to Lucy Webb Hayes as "the First Lady of the Land". Prior to Ms. Ames pilfering the "First Lady" title for her article, no references to wives of the President were anything but just that; The wife of the President. Aside from the fact that Washingtonian etiquette prescribed the social duties involved in being a First Lady at that time, and the Supreme Court Justices wives took their duties very seriously, many wives of Presidents were not all too happy that their husbands were running for the office. Some wives were very content to stay in their homes, close by to their friends, and they did not wish to pull up stakes for a move to Washington.
Take Anna Harrison for example. She was 66 years old when her husband William Henry Harrison was elected President. She loved her home was not too keen on moving. She had bore many children, and six had died over the years prior to her husband winning the Presidency. She had no political or social agenda, or desires. She is often quoted as saying, "I wish that my husband's friends had left him where he is, happy and contented in retirement." She skipped the festivities in Washington after her husband's win, and decided to wait until after his inauguration to move to Washington. She missed his record breaking inaugural speech in the freezing Washington air. Six weeks into his term, Harrison died from pneumonia and pleurisy. Anna received the news as she was packing to move to Washington D.C.
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