the etymology and history of first names
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First Ladies of the United States Chronologically
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| Name | Years | Also Known As |
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| Martha Washington | 1789-1797 | |
| Abigail Adams | 1797-1801 | |
| Martha Jefferson Randolph | 1801-1809 | |
| Dolley Madison | 1801-1817 | (Dorothea) |
| Elizabeth Kortright Monroe | 1817-1825 | |
| Louisa Adams | 1825-1829 | |
| Emily Donelson | 1829-1836 | |
| Sarah Yorke Jackson | 1834-1837 | |
| Angelica Van Buren | 1837-1841 | |
| Anna Harrison | 1841-1841 | |
| Jane Irwin Harrison | 1841-1841 | |
| Letitia Christian Tyler | 1841-1842 | |
| Priscilla Cooper Tyler | 1842-1844 | |
| Julia Gardiner Tyler | 1844-1845 | |
| Sarah Childress Polk | 1845-1849 | |
| Margaret Taylor | 1849-1850 | (Peggy) |
| Abigail Fillmore | 1850-1853 | |
| Jane Pierce | 1853-1857 | |
| Harriet Lane | 1857-1861 | |
| Mary Todd Lincoln | 1861-1865 | |
| Eliza McCardle Johnson | 1865-1869 | |
| Julia Grant | 1869-1877 | |
| Lucy Webb Hayes | 1877-1881 | |
| Lucretia Rudolph Garfield | 1881-1881 | |
| Mary McElroy | 1881-1885 | |
| Rose Cleveland | 1885-1886 | |
| Frances Folsom Cleveland | 1886-1889;1893-1897 | |
| Caroline Harrison | 1889-1892 | (Carrie) |
| Mary Harrison McKee | 1892-1893 | |
| Ida Saxton McKinley | 1897-1901 | |
| Edith Roosevelt | 1901-1909 | |
| Helen Herron Taft | 1909-1913 | (Nellie) |
| Ellen Louise Wilson | 1913-1914 | |
| Edith Bolling Wilson | 1915-1921 | |
| Florence Harding | 1921-1923 | |
| Grace Coolidge | 1923-1929 | |
| Lou Henry Hoover | 1929-1933 | (Louise) |
| Anna Eleanor Roosevelt | 1933-1945 | |
| Elizabeth Truman | 1945-1953 | (Bess) |
| Mamie Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | |
| Jacqueline Kennedy | 1961-1963 | |
| Claudia "Lady Bird" Johnson | 1963-1969 | |
| Patricia Nixon | 1969-1974 | (Pat) |
| Betty Ford | 1974-1977 | (Elizabeth) |
| Eleanor Rosalynn Carter | 1977-1981 | |
| Nancy Reagan | 1981-1989 | |
| Barbara Bush | 1989-1993 | |
| Hillary Rodham Clinton | 1993-2001 | |
| Laura Bush | 2001- |
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