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page 119th-century American women
Eleanor Roosevelt
American diplomat and activist, First Lady of the United States from 1933 to 1945 (1884–1962)
Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797
Mary Todd Lincoln
First Lady of the United States from 1861 to 1865
Bess Truman
First Lady of the United States from 1945 to 1953
Dolley Madison
First Lady of the United States from 1809 to 1817
Margaret Brown
survivor of the sinking of the Titanic (1867–1932), women's rights activist, philanthropist
Louisa Adams
First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829
Edith Roosevelt
First Lady of the United States from 1901 to 1909
Elizabeth Monroe
First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921
Frances Cleveland
First Lady of the United States from 1886 to 1889 and 1893 to 1897
Grace Coolidge
First Lady of the United States from 1923 to 1929
Letitia Christian Tyler
First Lady of the United States (1790-1842)

Julia Gardiner Tyler
First Lady of the United States (1820–1889)

Angelica Singleton Van Buren
First Lady of the United States
Eliza McCardle Johnson
First Lady of the United States from 1865 to 1869
Martha Jefferson Randolph
First Lady of the United States from 1801 to 1809

Ellen Axson Wilson
First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914

Lucy Webb Hayes
First Lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881

Margaret Taylor
First Lady of the United States from 1849 to 1850

Jane Pierce
First Lady of the United States from 1853 to 1857
Harriet Lane
First Lady of the United States from 1857 to 1861

Lucretia Garfield
Lucretia Garfield was the first lady of the United States from March to September 1881, as the wife of James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States.
Emily Donelson
niece of U.S. President Andrew Jackson

Sarah Childress Polk
First Lady of the United States from 1845 to 1849
Anna Harrison
First Lady of the United States from 1841 to 1841
Rachel Jackson
wife of Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1767–1828)
Ida Saxton McKinley
First Lady of the United States from 1897 to 1901

Sarah Yorke Jackson
First Lady of the United States (1803-1887)
Jane Irwin Harrison
First Lady of the United States (1804-1846)
Mary Harrison McKee
daughter of President Benjamin Harrison (1858-1930)

Mary Arthur McElroy
First Lady of the United States (1841-1917)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson
acting First Lady of the United States (1914-1915)

Betsy Ross
American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives with making the first American flag
Marie Laveau
American Voodoo practitioner
Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe
wife of Edgar Allan Poe (1822-1847)
Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
wife of U.S. president Chester A. Arthur (1837–1880)
Belle Gunness
Norwegian-American serial killer
Belle Starr
American outlaw
Jane Toppan
American serial killer (1854–1938)
Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt
American socialite and the first wife of Theodore Roosevelt (1861–1884)
Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte
wife of Jérôme Bonaparte
Martha M. Place
American murderer who became the first woman to die in the electric chair
Ida Straus
Titanic victim (1849–1912)
Annie Jones
American sideshow performer
Cathay Williams
American slave, chef, Buffalo soldier and Female wartime crossdresser
Angelica Schuyler Church
American socialite (1756–1814)
Ella Harper
American circus performer
Sarah Elmira Royster
Sweetheart of Edgar Allan Poe (1810–1888)
Sarah Knox Taylor
daughter of US President Zachary Taylor, wife of the President of the Confederate States of America (1814-1835)

Carrie Babcock Sherman
Second lady of the United States

Louisa Ann Swain
American voter
Mary Anna Custis Lee
wife of Robert E. Lee (1808-1873)
Alice Elizabeth Doherty
Sideshow performer
Linda Richards
American nurse
Mary Cyrene Breckinridge
wife of vice-president of the U.S. (1826-1907)
Margaret Garner
United States fugitive enslaved person
Ann Gerry
wife of Elbridge Gerry, Second Lady of the United States (1763-1849)
Krao Farini
Laotian–American sideshow performer
Minnie Warren
American entertainer (1849–1878)