"several years, film exhibitors voted Wyman as among the most popular stars in the country: The Martin and Lewis Show Jane Wyman November 30, 1951 Wyman has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; one for motion pictures at 6607 Hollywood Boulevard and one for television at 1620 Vine Street. Jane Wyman Jane Wyman (born Sarah Jane Mayfield; January 5, 1917 – September 10, 2007) was an American actress, singer, dancer, and philanthropist whose career spanned seven decades. She was also the first wife of actor Ronald Reagan (later the 40th President of the United States). They married in"
"at the time). When Reagan became President 32 years later, he had the distinction of being the first divorced person to assume the nation's highest office. Reagan and Wyman continued to be friends until his death, with Wyman voting for Reagan in both of his runs and, upon his death, saying ""America has lost a great president and a great, kind, and gentle man."" Reagan met actress Nancy Davis (1921–2016) in 1949 after she contacted him in his capacity as president of the Screen Actors Guild. He helped her with issues regarding her name appearing on a Communist blacklist in"
"The President's Lady The President's Lady is a 1953 biographical film of the life of American president, Andrew Jackson, and his marriage to Rachel Donelson Robards. The film was made by 20th Century Fox, directed by Henry Levin, and produced by Sol C. Siegel with Levin as associate producer. The screenplay was by John Patrick, based on the 1951 novel by Irving Stone, the music score by Alfred Newman, and the cinematography by Leo Tover. The film stars Susan Hayward and Charlton Heston with John McIntire and Fay Bainter. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Art"
"In 1983 Grayson filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) to run for President of the United States as a Democrat. Over the next year, the exploits in his humorous campaign to replace President Ronald Reagan were widely covered in the media. Perhaps his best-known remark, quoted in ""Time"", ""USA Today"", and ""The Wall Street Journal"", was his explanation of why he asked the actress Jane Wyman, star of the then-current nighttime soap opera ""Falcon Crest"" and the former wife of the incumbent President, to be his Vice Presidential running mate: ""She already has experience in dumping Ronald Reagan."" Other"
"President. On April 5, 1684, while visiting Amsterdam, he married his second cousin, Catharina de Peyster (1665–), the daughter of Pierre de Peyster and Gertrude Van Dyke. Their children included: The mansion he erected in 1695, which at one time was the headquarters of Washington, remained standing until 1856. Before his death in 1728, De Peyster commissioned the creation of a bell to be placed in the Middle Dutch Church, then under construction. Cast in Amsterdam in 1731, the bell is known today as the ""Liberty Bell"" and is located at the Middle Collegiate Church. His great grandson, also named"
"of us. She wasn't a 'spoiled diva,' and believe me, if anybody had a right to be a 'spoiled diva,' it was Jane because she has done so much, Oscar Award-winner, I mean, incredible actress, and she was just like clockwork, right there on time, always knew her lines, always ready to rehearse and she had this great affable quality. You just never talked about (Wyman's ex-husband and the then-current U.S. President) Ronald Reagan, that's all. That was one thing we never did; everything else was opened."" At the beginning of the ninth and final season of ""Falcon Crest"", off-camera,"
"are concerned, to gloss over unpleasantness in a way which ... detracts ... from his value as a historian."" He told his side of events that led to his 1976 presidential candidacy, as well as his relationships with members of Congress and his views on the world and the Cold War. Reagan was married twice: the first to actress Jane Wyman (1917–2007) from 1940 to 1948. Reagan only mentions her in one paragraph in the book, saying ""it didn't work out"", but that the marriage ""produced two wonderful children."" He married Nancy Davis in 1952, saying in the biography ""Sometimes,"
"Chicago Theatre and married on January 26, 1940 at the Wee Kirk o' the Heather church in Glendale, California. Together they had two biological children, Maureen (1941–2001) and Christine (b. in 1947 but lived only one day), and adopted a third, Michael (b. 1945). After the couple had arguments about Reagan's political ambitions, Wyman filed for divorce in 1948, citing a distraction due to her husband's Screen Actors Guild union duties; the divorce was finalized in 1949. Wyman, who was a registered Republican, also stated that their break-up was due to a difference in politics (Reagan was still a Democrat"
"York president Arthur Wilmarth, and they were married in 1859. A son was born in 1861, but the marriage proved contentious. In 1867, Suit moved back to Maryland with his family, and purchased a more than estate near Washington, D.C.. The property, which became known as Suitland, is now the town of Suitland, Maryland. Suit set up a new distillery nearby under the name ""S.T. Suit"" and invested in railroads. The estate was visited by U.S. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes, and was the scene of negotiations to settle the Alabama Claims. From 1873 to 1877 Suit"
"Nancy Reagan Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of the United States. She was the First Lady of the United States from 1981 to 1989. She was born in New York City. After her parents separated, she lived in Maryland with an aunt and uncle for several years. When her mother remarried in 1929, she moved to Chicago and later took the name Davis from her stepfather. As Nancy Davis, she was a Hollywood actress in the 1940s"
"and 24th President of the United States. Harry S. Truman – 33rd President of the United States. Martha Washington – The 1st First Lady of the United States. Martin Van Buren – 8th President of the United States. Theodore Roosevelt – 26th President of the United States. Former President Herbert Hoover became the first honorary chairman of Tolstoy Foundation in Valley Cottage, New York, in 1939 and served in this capacity until his death in 1964. Thurgood Marshall – Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States Jane Kannif, the widow of a Scotch physician, lived in a"
"appearances from 1953 to 1962, as a guest star in dramatic shows or installments of anthology series. These included ""Ford Television Theatre"" (her first appearance with Ronald Reagan came during a 1953 episode titled ""First Born""), ""Schlitz Playhouse of Stars"", ""Dick Powell's Zane Grey Theatre"" (appearing with Ronald Reagan in the 1961 episode ""The Long Shadow""), ""Wagon Train"", ""The Tall Man"", and ""General Electric Theater"" (hosted by Ronald Reagan). Nancy Reagan Nancy Davis Reagan (born Anne Frances Robbins; July 6, 1921 – March 6, 2016) was an American film actress and the wife of Ronald Reagan, the 40th President of"
"in a Washington ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries. Thomas Ewing was serving as the Secretary of the Interior at the time. Like her mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman was a devout Roman Catholic, and the Shermans' eight children were reared in that faith. In 1864, Ellen took up temporary residence in South Bend, Indiana, to have her young family educated at the University of Notre Dame and St. Mary's College. In 1874, with Sherman having become world-famous, their eldest child, Marie Ewing (""Minnie"") Sherman, also had a politically prominent wedding, attended by President Ulysses S. Grant"
"seasons from 1953 to 1962, which increased Reagan's profile in American households. He had previously appeared in feature films mostly in supporting roles or as a ""second lead"". In his final work as a professional actor, Reagan was a host and performer from 1964 to 1965 on the television series ""Death Valley Days"". Reagan and future wife Nancy Davis appeared together on television several times, including an episode of ""General Electric Theater"" in 1958 called ""A Turkey for the President."" In 1938, Reagan co-starred in the film ""Brother Rat"" with actress Jane Wyman (1917–2007). They announced their engagement at the"
"of shipping executive (and former Civil War Union blockade runner) F.W.J. Hurst. The list of attendees at their wedding included past and future president Grover Cleveland, railroad tycoons Cornelius Vanderbilt and Edward Harriman, John Jacob Astor IV, and J. P. Morgan. They had one child, Ethel M.B. Harriman, born on December 11, 1897. Harriman became seriously ill in January 1913 with what newspapers described as a lingering “digestive troubles.” After President Wilson's appointment, the couple moved to Washington D.C., keeping a residence in New York City while donating their Mount Kisco, New York estate for use as a tuberculosis sanitorium."
"the second presidential mansion on Broadway in New York City, and the third presidential mansion in Philadelphia. On February 22, 1799, Nelly Custis married George Washington's nephew, the widower Lawrence Lewis, of Fredericksburg, Virginia. The Washingtons' wedding gift was adjacent to Mount Vernon, on which the Lewises built Woodlawn Plantation. The Lewises had eight children, five of whom did not survive to adulthood. The three who did survive were: Upon her marriage, Nelly Lewis inherited about 80 slaves from her father's estate. Her grandfather, Daniel Parke Custis's estate was liquidated following Martha Washington's death in 1802, and Nelly Lewis inherited"
"president of the United States"" (1896) uses ""Dolly"" consistently throughout. Dolley Madison Dolley Payne Todd Madison (May 20, 1768 – July 12, 1849) was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for holding Washington social functions in which she invited members of both political parties, essentially spearheading the concept of bipartisan cooperation, albeit before that term was in use, in the United States. While previously, founders such as Thomas Jefferson would only meet with members of one party at a time, and politics could often be a violent affair resulting"
"Degas, Cézanne, Picasso, and Renoir. She and her husband later donated many of the works she bought and collected, including those of the artist Walt Kuhn, to the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. They remained married until her death on September 26, 1970, at George Washington University Hospital in Washington, D.C. In 1971, he married for the third and final time to Pamela Beryl Digby Churchill Hayward (1920–1997), the former wife of Winston Churchill's son Randolph, and widow of Broadway producer Leland Hayward. Harriman and Pamela Churchill had had an affair during the War in 1941 which led"
"famous people came to Crown Point to marry, including Tom Mix, Rudolph Valentino, Cassius Clay, and Jackson 5 patriarch Joseph Jackson and their wives. Certain online sources claim that Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman were married in Crown Point. But Reagan and Wyman were married in Glendale, California, according to mainstream sources such as ""Fox News"", the ""Washington Post"", and the ""Los Angeles Times"". The Walter Allman House, Wellington A. Clark House, Crown Point Courthouse Square Historic District, Lake County Courthouse, Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House, Lake County Sheriff's House and Jail, Albert Maack House, and"
"during the ceremony; the couple's first child, Patricia Ann Reagan (later better known by her professional name, Patti Davis), was born less than eight months later on October 21, 1952. Their son, Ronald Prescott Reagan (later better known as Ron Reagan) was born six years later on May 20, 1958. Reagan also became stepmother to Maureen Reagan (1941–2001) and Michael Reagan (born 1945), her husband's children from his first marriage to Jane Wyman. Observers described Nancy and Ronald's relationship as intimate. As President and First Lady, the Reagans were reported to display their affection frequently, with one press secretary noting,"
"continued influence of other members of the Harriman family in the bank’s ownership and management). Twenty-two years later, after the bank failed in the financial crisis of 1932-1933, its longtime president Joseph Wright Harriman, formerly of Harriman & Co., was convicted by a federal jury of misappropriating bank funds, and served 25 months in prison. Harriman retired the next month (at age 48) from Harriman & Co. Later that year, newly elected President Woodrow Wilson appointed Mrs. Harriman as a member of the first U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations. On November 13, 1889 he married nineteen-year-old Florence Jaffray Hurst, daughter"
"Jane Wyman, and was directed by Robert Wise. She followed this with westerns, ""Wyoming Renegades"" (1954) and ""The Battle of Rogue River"" (1954), and a musical comedy, ""Lucky Me"" (1954), which stars Doris Day. She then played Elizabeth Tyson, a socialite who almost loses her fiancé (William Holden) to Audrey Hepburn, in the Oscar-winning film ""Sabrina"" (1954). She next starred opposite Donald O'Connor in the comedy ""Francis in the Navy"" (1955) and in a 1956 televised version of ""Jezebel"" for ""Lux Video Theatre"" in which she played the lead role of Julie. She had supporting roles in the war story"
"Maureen Reagan Maureen Elizabeth Reagan (January 4, 1941 – August 8, 2001) was the first child of U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his first wife, actress Jane Wyman. Her brother was Michael Reagan and her notable siblings were Patti Davis and Ron Reagan, from her father's second marriage to Nancy Davis. Reagan was born and raised in Los Angeles. She graduated from Marymount Secondary School, Tarrytown, New York in 1958 and briefly attended Marymount University. Her parents also had another daughter, Christine, who died shortly after birth. Reagan pursued a career in acting in her youth, appearing in films such"
"and the Great Depression. Today the Palace Theatre in Los Angeles, the third Orpheum built in that city, is the oldest remaining theater in the nation that was constructed under Meyerfeld's stewardship; celebrating its centennial year on June 26, 2011. In 1912 Meyerfeld was chosen from California's 4th congressional district as a delegate to the Republican National Convention. A supporter of President William Howard Taft, he was eventually seated after surviving a challenge from backers of former President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1886 Meyerfeld married Nannie Friedman (1867–1959), a San Francisco native of German-Scottish parents, and the following year became the"
"Berryman married Kate Geddes Durfee in July, 1893, and they had three children: Mary Belle (who died as an infant), Florence Seville (she later became an art critic), and James Thomas (who himself became a Pulitzer Prize–winning cartoonist). Berryman was a Presbyterian and an active member of the Washington Heights Presbyterian Church. He died December 11, 1949, from a heart ailment, and is buried in Glenwood Cemetery in Washington, D.C. In 1944, Berryman was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning for his drawing ""Where is the Boat Going."" The cartoon depicted President Franklin D. Roosevelt and other government officials"
"wife, former First Lady Nancy Reagan, and served as commander of the Joint Task Force-Armed Forces Inaugural Committee for President George W. Bush's 2005 Presidential Inauguration. Jackman was assigned as the Army's Chief of Legislative Liaison on July 21, 2005. He retired from that position, and the U.S. Army after 35 years of service, in July 2008. In 1982 Jackman married Cathy (née Dowd), herself the daughter of a retired Army officer. Cathy Jackman is originally from Fayetteville, North Carolina and is a 1970 graduate of Terry Sanford High School. The Jackmans have two sons, David and Patrick. David Jackman"
"President from 1789 to 1797 and then second President from 1797 to 1801. The last to do this was Barbara Bush, who was married to George H. W. Bush, who was the 43rd Vice President from 1981 to 1989 and then 41st President from 1989 to 1993. The current Second Lady is Karen Pence, who is married to Mike Pence, who has been the 48th Vice President in Donald Trump's administration since January 20, 2017. There are four living former second ladies: Marilyn Quayle, wife of Dan Quayle; Tipper Gore, wife of Al Gore; Lynne Cheney, wife of Dick Cheney;"
"The effort, which was heavily promoted by his vice president, Carl Graham Fisher, succeeded, and a monument to Joy along the Lincoln Highway at the Continental Divide was dedicated on July 2, 1939. In 2001, this monument was moved to a more accessible location west of Cheyenne, Wyoming. Joy is directly descended from Thomas Joy, architect and builder of America's first seat of government, Boston's Town House (1658). In 1892, Joy married Helen Hall Newberry. Helen's father was U.S. Congressman John Stoughton Newberry. Henry Bourne Joy Henry Bourne Joy (November 23, 1864 – November 6, 1936) was President of the"
"children. She is buried in Calvary Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri; her tombstone there identifies her as Eleanor Boyle Ewing Sherman. Ellen was educated in Lancaster and Washington, D.C. She married William Tecumseh ""Cump"" Sherman in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 1850, in a ceremony attended by President Zachary Taylor and other political luminaries. The Shermans, who often lived apart even before the Civil War due to Sherman's military career, had eight children together, two of whom (Willie and Charles) died during the war. Although women did not have the right to vote in her day, Ellen declared herself to"
"would ""be the means of limiting, not enlarging, the dominion of slavery"". The only president to remain a bachelor, Buchanan's personal life has attracted great historical interest. His biographer Jean Baker argues that Buchanan was asexual or celibate. Several writers have put forth arguments that he was homosexual, including sociologist James W. Loewen, and authors Robert P. Watson and Shelley Ross. In 1818, Buchanan met Anne Caroline Coleman at a grand ball at Lancaster's White Swan Inn, and the two began courting. Anne was the daughter of the wealthy iron manufacturer (and protective father) Robert Coleman and sister-in-law of Philadelphia"
"two successful TV series, and was nominated for an Academy Award four times, winning once. Wyman married five times and had four husbands. Wyman married salesman Ernest Eugene Wyman (1906 – 1970) in Los Angeles, California on April 8, 1933. Wyman recorded her name as 'Jane Fulks' on the wedding certificate. She also listed foster parents Emma and Richard Fulks as her parents. In keeping with the tendency of making herself older than she really was, she gave her age as 19 on the document. Truthfully, she had turned 16 just 3 months prior. The couple would divorce after 2"
"running nighttime show. In 1964 Mrs. Washburn had the privilege of dancing with President John F. Kennedy at the British Embassy in Washington after his attendance at the National Theater for a performance of 'Mr. President.' Diane’s husband Jack was in the show that evening playing Youssen Daver, a role which he created. Diane lives today in New Hope, Pennsylvania at her farm 'Glen Gables,' a c. 1740s carriage house that she and Jack purchased from notable Pennsylvania modernist artist R.A.D. Miller. The house, on the National Historic Register, has hosted ""countless film and stage actors including Esther Williams, Ann"
"64. James S. Sherman was Vice President of the United States from 1909 until his death from Bright's disease in 1912. Ellen Axson Wilson, first wife of Woodrow Wilson, died on 6 August 1914. Woodsman Louis ""French Louie"" Seymour died on February 28, 1915. John Bunny, an American actor and one of the first comic stars of the early motion picture era, died on April 26, 1915. Australian cricketer Victor Trumper died at age 37, in June 1915. Booker T. Washington, founder and principal of Tuskegee University, died in November 1915. Charles Sumner Sedgwick, a prominent architect based in Minneapolis,"