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* The first First Lady to go to school was Anna Harrison, Mrs. William Henry Harrison.
* The first to attend college was Lucretia Garfield, Mrs. James Garfield.
* The first to hire a social secretary was Edith Roosevelt, Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt.
* The first to take a public position on a bill before Congress was Ellen Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson.
* Lady Bird Johnson was the first to campaign on her own, to help her husband, Lyndon Johnson, in his election campaign.
* Eleanor Roosevelt was the first First Lady to hold a press conference: this, because women reporters were barred from presidential press conferences at that time. Mrs. Roosevelt was also the first to travel overseas without her husband, and the first to serve as UN ambassador.
* Hillary Clinton was the first First Lady to be elected to office, when she became a US senator for the state of New York. She is also the first First Lady to herself run for president.
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