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First Ladys in Government & Politics

9 people, across 2 fields.

Field: All Government & Politics 7 Reform & Rights 2

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.

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.