First Ladys
9 people, across 2 fields.
Eleanor Roosevelt 1884–1962Civil Rights & Social ReformFirst Lady and human rights advocate who chaired the UN committee that drafted the Universal Declaration.
Hillary Clinton b. 1947Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady, Senator, Secretary of State, and first woman to win a major party's presidential nomination.
Michelle Obama b. 1964Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Black First Lady who led national campaigns on childhood nutrition and military family support.
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 1929–1994Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady who restored the White House as a museum and shaped the public memory of her husband's presidency.
Abigail Adams 1744–1818Civil Rights & Social ReformCorrespondent and presidential spouse whose letters urged legal consideration for women in the new republic.
Dolley Madison 1768–1849Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady who built the political salon of early Washington and saved the Washington portrait in 1814.
Martha Washington 1731–1802Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst First Lady who defined the role and spent every wartime winter in the Continental Army's camps.
Betty Ford 1918–2011Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady who spoke publicly about her breast cancer and her addiction and founded a treatment center.
Mary Todd Lincoln 1818–1882Political Leaders & StatecraftFirst Lady who buried three sons and was committed by the fourth in a public insanity trial.