Presidents' Wives

Question 1

George Washington

Answer 1

Martha Dandridge

Question 2

John Adams

Answer 2

Abigail Smith

Question 3

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 3

Martha Wayles
(Martha Skelton 1st Marriage)
Died before First Lady
Daughter Martha Jefferson Randolph served as First Lady

Question 4

James Madison

Answer 4

Dolley Payne

Dolley Todd 1st Marriage

Question 5

James Monroe

Answer 5

Elizabeth Kortright

Question 6

John Quincy Adams

Answer 6

Louisa Catherine Johnson

Question 7

Andrew Jackson

Answer 7

Rachel Donelson
(Rachel Robards 1st Marriage)
Died before First Lady
Niece Emily Donelson, and
Daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson served as First Ladies

Question 8

Martin Van Buren

Answer 8

Hannah Hoes
Died before First Lady
Daughter-in-law Angela Singleton Van Buren served as First Lady

Question 9

William Henry Harrison

Answer 9

Anna Tuthill Symmes

Question 10

John Tyler

Answer 10

Letitia Christian
Daughter-in-law served as FL after Letitia died
Julia Gardiner (married while in office)

Question 11

James Knox Polk

Answer 11

Sarah Childress

Question 12

Zachary Taylor

Answer 12

Margaret Mackall Smith

Question 13

Millard Fillmore

Answer 13

Abigail Powers

Question 14

Franklin Pierce

Answer 14

Jane Means Appleton

Question 15

James Buchanan

Answer 15

Unmaried

Niece Harriet Lane served as FL

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

Marry Todd

Question 17

Andrew Johnson

Answer 17

Eliza McCardle

Question 18

Ulysses S. Grant (Hiram Ulysses Grant)

Answer 18

Julia Boggs Dent

Question 19

Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Answer 19

Lucy Webb

Question 20

James Abram Garfield

Answer 20

Lucretia Rudolph

Question 21

Chester Alan Arthur

Answer 21

Ellen Herndon (died before FL)
Sister Mary Arthur McElroy served as FL

Question 22

Grover Cleveland

Answer 22

Sister Rose Cleveland served as FL until married to
Frances Folsom (remairred Later as Frances Preston)
Youngest FL

Question 23

Benjamin Harrison

Answer 23

Caroline Lavinia Scott (died while FL)
Daughter Mary Harrison McKee served as FL after mother’s death
Later married Mary Lord (previously Mary Dimmick)

Question 24

Grover Cleveland

Answer 24

Frances Folsom

Question 25

William McKinley

Answer 25

Ida Saxton

Question 26

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 26

Alice Hathaway Lee (died before FL)

Edith Kermit Carow

Question 27

William Howard Taft

Answer 27

Helen Herron

Question 28

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Answer 28

Ellen Axson (died while FL)
Daughter Margaret Woodrow Wilson served as FL
Edith White Bolling (previously married to Norman Galt)

Question 29

Warren Gamaliel Harding

Answer 29

Florence Kling (previously married and divorced from Henry Athenton DeWolfe)

Question 30

John Calvin Coolidge Jr.

Answer 30

Grace Goodhue

Question 31

Herbert Clark Hoover

Answer 31

Lou Henry

Question 32

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Answer 32

Anna Eleanor Roosevelt

Question 33

Harry S. Truman

Answer 33

Elizabeth “Bess” Wallace

Question 34

Dwight David Eisenhower

Answer 34

Mamie Geneva Doud

Question 35

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Answer 35

Jacqueline “Jackie” Lee Bouvier (later Jacqueline Onassis)

Question 36

Lyndon Baines Johnson

Answer 36

Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor

Question 37

Richard Milhous Nixon

Answer 37

Thelma “Pat” Catherine Ryan

Question 38

Gerald “Jerry” Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King, Jr.)

Answer 38

Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Bloomer

previously married to William G. Warren

Question 39

James “Jimmy” Earl Carter, Jr.

Answer 39

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith

Question 40

Ronald Wilson Reagan

Answer 40

Jane Wyman (1940-1949 divorced)
Nancy Davis (born Anne Frances Robbins)

Question 41

George Herbert Walker Bush

Answer 41

Barbara Pierce

Question 42

William “Bill” Jefferson Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III)

Answer 42

Hillary Diane Rodham

Question 43

George Walker Bush

Answer 43

Laura Lane Welch

Question 44

Barack Hussein Obama II

Answer 44

Michelle LaVaughn Robinson