Category: U.S. First Lady

Jill Biden
Jill Biden


Jill Biden is first lady of the United States, the wife of Joe Biden, the 46th president of the United States. Previously, Biden served as second lady of the United States from 2009-2017, when her husband served as vice president during the Obama administration. Biden was born on June 3, 1951, in Hammonton, New Jersey, and grew up in Willow Grove, Pennsylvania. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Delaware (1975), a Master of Education from West Chester University (1981) and a Master of Arts from Villanova […]
Barbara Bush
Barbara P Bush


Barbara Pierce Bush was first lady of the United States from 1989-1993, the wife of the 41st president of the United States, George H. W. Bush. Bush was born in New York, New York, on June 8, 1925. She met George Bush at a dance when she was just 16; they married in 1945 while he was home on leave from his service in World War II. After the war, they moved to New Haven, Connecticut, while he attended Yale University. After his graduation, they lived in Texas and California […]
Laura Bush
Laura Bush


Laura Lane Welch Bush was first lady of the United States from 2001-2009, the wife of the 43rd president of the United States, George W. Bush. Bush was born in Midland, Texas, on November 4, 1946. She graduated from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, in 1968 with bachelor's degree in elementary education. After college, she taught second grade in Houston, Texas, for two years. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin, Graduate School of Library Science in 1973 with a master's degree in library science and returned […]
Rosalynn Carter
Rosalynn Carter


Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter was the first lady of the United States from 1977-1981, the wife of the 39th president of the United States, Jimmy Carter. Carter was born in Plains, Georgia, on August 18, 1927. She married James Earl Carter on July 7, 1946. After the death of his father in 1953, the Carters returned to Plains to run the family's peanut farm, with Mrs. Carter managing the finances. She helped with Mr. Carter's unsuccessful campaigns for state senate in 1962 and the governor's office in 1966 and his […]
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Hillary Rodham Clinton


Hillary Rodham Clinton was the 2016 Democratic nominee for president of the United States, the first women to be nominated for U.S. president on a major party ticket. She served as United States secretary of state from January 2009 to February 2013, United States senator from New York from 2001 to 2009, first lady of the United States from 1993 to 2001, and first lady of Arkansas from 1979 to 1981 and 1983 to 1992. She is the only U.S. first lady to hold elective office and to serve in […]
Betty Ford
Betty A Ford


Elizabeth Ann "Betty" Ford was first lady of the United States from 1974-1977, the wife of the 38th president of the United States, Gerald Ford. Ford was born April 8, 1918, in Chicago, Illinois and raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She intended to pursue a profession in dance, studying at Bennington College School of Dance, Vermont, in the summers of 1937 and 1938. During high school, she opened her own dance school called Betty Bloomer Dance School, renting space to use as a studio where she taught children and adults. […]
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson
Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson


Claudia "Lady Bird" Taylor Johnson was second lady of the United States from 1961-1963 and first lady from 1963-1969, the wife of the 36th president of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. Johnson was born December 22, 1912, in Karnack, Texas. She was known as Lady Bird from her childhood, when her nursemaid nicknamed her. Johnson graduated with bachelor's degrees in history in 1933 and journalism in 1934, both from the University of Texas at Austin. On November 17, 1934, she married Lyndon Baines "LBJ" Johnson. Lyndon Johnson was first […]
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon
Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon


Thelma Catherine "Pat" Nixon was first lady of the United States from 1969-1974, the wife of the 37th president of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon. Nixon was born on March 16, 1912, in Ely, Nevada and raised in California. She was given the nickname "Pat" by her father, in reference to her birthdate and Irish ancestry. Her mother died in 1925 and her father in 1930. She graduated cum laude from the University of Southern California in 1937 with a Bachelor of Science degree in merchandising and a teaching […]
Michelle Obama
Michelle Obama


Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama was first lady of the United States from 2009-2017, the wife of the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama. The Obamas were the first African American president and first lady of the United States. She is also a lawyer and a writer. Obama was born January 17, 1964, in Chicago, Illinois, and raised on Chicago's south side. She graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1985 with a B.A. in sociology and a minor in African American studies and earned a J.D. from Harvard […]
Nancy Reagan
Nancy Reagan


Nancy Reagan (Anne Frances Robbins Davis Reagan) was first lady of the United States from 1981-1989, the wife of the 40th president of the United States, Ronald Reagan. Reagan was born on July 6, 1921, in New York City. She graduated from Smith College in 1943 with majors in English and drama. After graduation, she pursued an acting career, eventually working in stage, film, and television productions, and in 1949, she signed a seven-year contract with MGM. She made eleven films in all, including three after her March 4, 1952, […]