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Abigial Adams was the second first lady of United States. She was married to America's first vice-president and second president John Adams.
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the president's wife.
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Another term for the president's wife is the first lady.
Because she is married to the president.
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She is the wife of the president or the official White House hostess if the president is not married. ( Michele Obama is the first lady at this date in 2011.)
George Washington, his wife 'Martha Washington' was the first woman to be called 'the First Lady'.
Because she is married to the President of the US, the First Citizen. The custom of calling the wife of the President the "First Lady" goes back almost to the time of George Washington.
All of them. The only president not to be married was James Buchanan, but his niece, Harriet Lane, served as First Lady.
she was married to the president and was the first lady
Yes. Jane Irwin Harrison was the daughter-in-law of William Harrison, who while married, had not brought his wife with him. Jane was First Lady in her mother-in-law's stead. When James Buchanan was President, he was the one and only bachelor President America has ever had. So his niece Harriet Lane was First Lady.
she become the first lady because she married Brokaw Obama.
Because she is married to the president and although she herself is not elected by the American people, the wife of the President is nonetheless a figurehead and representative of our country in her own right -- thus becoming our "First Lady."
Abigial Adams was the second first lady of United States. She was married to America's first vice-president and second president John Adams.
She married Barack Obama, who later became President of the United States. She also has the distinction of being the first African-American First Lady.