First Ladies Study Guide

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Mary Todd Lincoln 25x 8.0% stumper $444 avg J:15 DJ:10

DJ $200 1988 Mary Todd

J $500 1994 In 1875 a jury decided this former first lady was insane; in 1876 another jury declared her sane

DJ $1,000 1991 Sarah Bernhardt claims she once saved this extravagant first lady from falling to her death on a ship

Dolley Madison 22x 18.2% stumper $755 avg J:7 DJ:15

J $400 2016 In 1814 she wrote she filled a wagon with "the most valuable portable articles belonging to" the White House

J $600 2011 She prevented the British from burning Gilbert Stuart's painting of Washington, which still hangs in the East Room

DJ $1,000 1996 In need of money, she sold her late husband's notes on the Constitutional Convention for $30,000

Abigail Adams 21x 19.0% stumper $510 avg J:9 DJ:12

J $100 1998 She was the second first lady

J $500 DD 1991 She didn't attend her husband's 1797 inauguration because her mother-in-law was ill

J $1,000 2002 During her time in the White House--Nov. 1800 to March 1801--she hung the family wash to dry in the East Room

Lady Bird Johnson 19x 10.5% stumper $547 avg J:8 DJ:11

J $200 2006 Thomas Jefferson Taylor, a Karnack, Texas rancher

J $500 1989 She co-wrote the 1988 book "Wildflowers Across America"

DJ $3,400 DD 1990 20th c. first lady whose father had a presidential name: Thomas Jefferson Taylor

Betty Ford 19x 21.1% stumper $637 avg J:10 DJ:9

J $100 1999 In 1987 she published the book "Betty: A Glad Awakening"

J $500 1997 This outspoken first lady once told "60 Minutes" she wouldn't be surprised if her daughter Susan had an affair

J $1,000 2006 William S. Bloomer, a Midwestern rubber goods salesman

Nancy Reagan 17x $294 avg J:10 DJ:7

J $100 1999 She married husband Ronnie in 1952 when he was president of the Screen Actors Guild

DJ $600 1990 In 1939, at Chicago's Girls' Latin School, she played the lead role in the Senior play "First Lady"

J $100 1992 She was praised in the 1988 State of the Union speech for her "Just Say No" to drugs campaign

Rosalynn Carter 17x $435 avg J:8 DJ:9

DJ $400 1997 She studied interior decorating at Georgia Southwestern College

DJ $600 1985 "I have influence, & I know it!", this southern supporter of the ERA

J $200 2016 This First Lady got a 2-year degree from Georgia Southwestern College

Martha Washington 16x 12.5% stumper $438 avg J:8 DJ:8

J $200 2006 When she married the future president in 1759, she was said to be the richest marriageable woman in Virginia

J $500 1989 Patty Duke played this first lady in a 1984 miniseries that starred Barry Bostwick

J $200 2000 A widow when she wed the future president in 1759, she had been married to Daniel Parke Custis

Pat Nixon 13x 23.1% stumper $700 avg J:8 DJ:5

J $200 2000 In the late 1930s, she taught typing & shorthand at Whittier High School in California

J $500 1999 This first lady was born in 1917 on the eve of St. Patrick's Day, hence her nickname

DJ $5,200 DD 2006 She was born in 1912; her real first name was Thelma

Jackie Kennedy 12x 9.1% stumper $482 avg J:8 DJ:3 FJ:1

J $100 1988 On March 11, 1962 she became the 1st wife of an incumbent pres. to have a private audience with the pope

DJ $600 1994 When she visited India in 1962 with her sister Lee, she rode an elephant

J $2,000 DD 2016 In the fall of 1951 she got her first job as the "Inquiring Camera Girl" at the Washington Times-Herald

Bess Truman 12x 25.0% stumper $892 avg J:8 DJ:4

J $100 1996 She was named for her mother's friend Bessie Madge Andrews

J $800 2011 After meeting her future husband in Sunday school, she enrolled in a Kansas City, Missouri finishing school

DJ $1,000 DD 1991 Dying in 1982 at the age of 97, she had lived longer than any other first lady

Barbara Bush 11x 18.2% stumper $418 avg J:6 DJ:5

J $100 1991 This no-nonsense First Lady admitted that her trademark pearls are fake

J $500 2000 In 1992 she became the 1st first lady to deliver a major address at a national political convention

DJ $1,300 DD 1992 Her father, Marvin Pierce, was publisher of McCall's & Redbook

Jacqueline Kennedy 8x 12.5% stumper $388 avg J:4 DJ:4

DJ $200 1997 In the early 1960s her hair-do became fashionable for women

DJ $600 1988 By court order, photographer Ron Galella must keep at least 25 feet away from her

J $200 1997 In 1964 she wrote of her husband, "So now he is a legend when he would have preferred to be a man"

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Lucy Hayes 6x 50.0% stumper $1,217 avg J:2 DJ:4

J $300 1988 "Lemonade Lucy", she was ruthless, not Rutherfordless, about not serving alcohol in the White House

DJ $800 1992 Susan B. Anthony tried to get her to support the women's movement, but she abstained, as she did with alcohol

DJ $1,000 1992 Because of her White House ban on alcohol, the W.C.T.U. commissioned a portrait of this first lady

Frances Folsom Cleveland 6x 60.0% stumper $1,300 avg DJ:5 FJ:1

DJ $800 1986 A bachelor when elected president, he married Frances Folsom, 27 years his junior, in 1886

DJ $1,000 1997 She was born in 1864, the daughter of a Buffalo, New York attorney

FJ 1994 At 21, she was the youngest wife of a sitting president

Warren G. Harding 5x 20.0% stumper $740 avg J:1 DJ:4

DJ $400 1987 When he died suddenly in office in 1923, rumors said his wife Florence had poisoned him

J $500 1992 For 14 years, this President's wife, Florence, was circulation manager of Ohio's Marion Star

DJ $1,000 1996 His wife Florence often consulted a Washington astrologer known as Madame Marcia

Lou Hoover 4x 50.0% stumper $850 avg J:2 DJ:2

DJ $600 1996 During her term as First Lady, 1929-1933, she made several radio addresses

J $1,000 2006 She was president (Natl. Pres. of the Girl Scouts, that is) in the 1920s while her husband was merely Secy. of Commerce

J $800 2006 Charles D. Henry, a Waterloo, Iowa banker

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Woodrow Wilson 3 Lou Henry Hoover 3 Grace Coolidge 3 William McKinley 2 William Henry Harrison 2 Texas 2 Smith 2 Mrs. Nixon 2 Mary Lincoln 2 Laura Bush 2 Kentucky 2 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis 2 Jackie's khakis 2 Edith 2 Dolley's trolleys 2 "Hail To The Chief" 2 John Tyler 2 Mrs. Lincoln 2 John Adams 2 Mrs. Carter 2 a lady bird 2 James Buchanan 2 Jacqueline Onassis 2 Frances Folsom 2

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