Abigail Adams was the first lady to live in the White House. I expect that she did some decorating.
Lucy Hayes was the first first lady with a college degree.
The term First Lady was first coined in 1860, in reference to Harriet Lane the White House hostess for her bachelor uncle, President James Buchanan. Before that the presidents wives were popularly known as "Lady ......." as in President and Lady (Washington, Maddison etc....).
Abraham Lincoln's wife in the white house was Mary Todd Lincoln.
Electricity was first used in the White House in 1891. The president of that time was Benjamin Harrison. Apparently, he and his First Lady feared electrocution and always had a member of the Presidential staff turn the lights on and off.
The wife of the 6th president was Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams. I am not sure you would call her the 6th first lady, since the 3rd president did not have a wife when he lived in the White House and the term "first lady" was not commonly used for the president's wife until several years later.
Abigail Adams was the first lady to live in the White House.
Abigail Adams, wife of President John Adams, was the first lady to live in the White House.
no-but she will be the first black first lady
Martha Washington, as the White House hadn't yet been built when George was in office.
She wasn't in the White House when it burned. She was not first lady then. It was 1812 and Madison was president. His wife Dolly was first lady and she did get out with a picture of Washington.
no she was not but she was there
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ignorance. God's house is not the White House.
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