Mary Todd became the wife of which President of the U.S.A.?
"gregarious, with a grasp of politics. Like her family, she was a Whig. Mary began living with her sister Elizabeth Porter Edwards in Springfield, Illinois in October 1839. Elizabeth, married to Ninian W. Edwards, son of a former governor, served as Mary's guardian. Mary was popular among the gentry of Springfield, and though she was courted by the rising young lawyer and Democratic Party politician Stephen A. Douglas and others, she chose Abraham Lincoln, a fellow Whig. Mary Todd married Abraham Lincoln on November 4, 1842, at her sister Elizabeth's home in Springfield, Illinois. She was 23 years old and"
"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"
"home to live with her sister in Springfield, Illinois, where she would meet Abraham Lincoln in 1842. She went back to Lexington in 1847 to introduce her family to Lincoln on their way to Washington, D.C. for Lincoln's one term as Congressman. The Lincolns returned twice more to the city in 1849 and 1850, the latter to cope with the death of a son. The Todd family was split apart by the war. Mary's father Richard Smith Todd had fourteen children, of whom six chose the Union side, while eight others went for the Confederacy. Save for Levi Todd, the"
"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 in physical altercations and even duels, Madison helped to create"
"Association (later the United Daughters of the Confederacy) and spearheaded the effort to build the $5,500 Confederate Monument in the cemetery. 155 soldier bodies were moved from elsewhere to be around the monument. The Elodie Todd Dawson Monument marks the graves of Elodie Todd Dawson (April 1, 1844-NOv 14, 1881) and her husband Confederate Brig. General Nathaniel H. R. Dawson (1829-1895). Elodie Todd Dawson was the half-sister of Mary Todd Lincoln the wife of President Abraham Lincoln. Her parents were Robert Smith Todd (1791 - 1849) and Elizabeth L Humphreys Todd (1800 - 1874) and she had 17 full or"
"a clerk position at the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA). While working at the TVA, Todd recruited members for the Communist Party. Following her divorce from McConnell in 1937 and subsequent marriage to Pat Todd, an electrician, Todd moved to New York City in 1938 then back to North Carolina in 1940.[6] In 1940, Todd was listed as one of forty-five suspected Communist Party members employed by the TVA in a letter sent to the chair of the TVA by J. Edgar Hoover.[1] An internal TVA investigation could not confirm that Todd was a member of the Communist Party.[1] In 1950,"
"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"
"Mary Rockefeller Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller (June 17, 1907 – April 21, 1999) was the first wife of Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, a Governor of New York. She served as the First Lady of New York from 1959 until the Rockefellers' divorce in March 1962. After their divorce, Nelson Rockefeller served as the 41st Vice President of the United States. Known as ""Tod"" to her family, she was born in Philadelphia. Her father, Percy Hamilton Clark, was an attorney and noted cricketer, and her mother was Elizabeth Williams Roberts, daughter of George B. Roberts, a former president of the Pennsylvania Railroad."
"aged 88 years. Daughter of the late Malcolm and Mary MacLeod, 5 Tong. Much missed."" Mary Anne MacLeod Trump Mary Anne Trump ( MacLeod, ; May 10, 1912August 7, 2000) was the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, and the wife of real estate developer Fred Trump. Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, she immigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. She raised five children with her husband and engaged in philanthropic activities in the New York area. Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a"
"Elizabeth Todd Edwards Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888) was the sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. She served as Mary's guardian for many years. Mary met Abraham Lincoln in 1839 at Elizabeth Edwards' home, where they later married. In 1875 Elizabeth helped Mary get released from an insane asylum. Elizabeth Edwards was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1816 to Robert Todd and Elizabeth Parker Todd. She married Ninian Wirt Edwards, the son of a former Illinois governor, in 1832. The Edwards lived in a well-to-do house on Aristocracy Hill in Springfield, Illinois. They would host"
"representative in the state legislature, 1819–1829. He was admitted to the bar in 1823. Todd married Mary Cornell in 1810; she died in 1824. They had three children. Todd married Jane Miller (born 1802) in 1825, they had 7 children. Todd served as prothonotary and clerk of the court 1825–1830. He was appointed attorney-general in 1835, and removed to Philadelphia. Todd resigned in 1838, when he was appointed president judge of the newly created court of Criminal Sessions of Philadelphia, which he served until the court was abolished in 1840. Afterwards he stayed in Philadelphia in private practice, until 1852,"
"Trump is the current First Lady of the United States, and wife of 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump. While the title was not in general use until much later, Martha Washington, the wife of George Washington, the first U.S. President (1789–1797), is considered to be the inaugural First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime, she was often referred to as ""Lady Washington"". Since the 1790s, the role of First Lady has changed considerably. It has come to include involvement in political campaigns, management of the White House, championship of social causes, and representation of the"
"Mary Anne MacLeod Trump Mary Anne Trump ( MacLeod, ; May 10, 1912August 7, 2000) was the mother of Donald Trump, the 45th and current President of the United States, and the wife of real estate developer Fred Trump. Born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, she immigrated to the United States in 1930 and became a naturalized citizen in 1942. She raised five children with her husband and engaged in philanthropic activities in the New York area. Mary Anne MacLeod was born in a pebbledash croft house owned by her father since 1895 in Tong on the Isle of"
"Lady Bird Johnson Claudia Alta ""Lady Bird"" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was an American socialite and the First Lady of the United States (1963–1969) as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. She also served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1961 until President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Notably well-educated for a woman of her era, she proved a capable manager and a shrewd investor. After marrying Lyndon B. Johnson in 1934 when he was a political hopeful in Austin, Texas, she used"
"slaves, but he did not call for the immediate end of slavery everywhere in the U.S. until the proposed 13th Amendment became part of his party platform for the 1864 election. In 1842, Abraham Lincoln had married Mary Todd, who was a daughter of a slave-owning family from Kentucky. Lincoln returned to the political stage as a result of the 1854 Kansas–Nebraska Act and soon became a leading opponent of the ""Slaveocracy""—the political power of the Southern slave owners. The Kansas–Nebraska Act, written to form the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, included language, designed by Stephen A. Douglas, which allowed"
"many gatherings of the Springfield gentry, and Elizabeth invited her three sisters, including Mary, to live with her. Mary met Abraham Lincoln in one of the Edwards social gatherings and they married there on November 4, 1842. Elizabeth lived in the White House with her sister Mary for the inauguration. She returned in 1862 to console Mary after the death of her son Willie. Mary Lincoln is believed to have suffered severe depression during her First Ladyship and after Abraham's death. Her son, Robert Todd Lincoln, committed her to an insane asylum in 1875, over Elizabeth's objections. Mary was released"
"accepted Todd’s resignation in 1950 due to her refusal to answer questions during her appearance before the HUAC.[7] Todd’s affiliation with the Communist Party and labor organizations began when she became acquainted with Kenneth McConnell while working at J. Walter Thompson Advertising Company Francisco in the late 1920s. Todd married McConnell, a political activist, in 1930 and they moved to Chapel Hill in 1931. McConnell was recruited into the Communist Party in 1935 and Todd joined as a member of the Communist Party sometime in the mid-1930s.[1] When McConnell was assigned to Knoxville by the Communist Party, Todd applied for"
"Todd would later become Abraham Lincoln's wife. William Todd (soldier) William Todd (1739 – October 10, 1810) was an American soldier and politician from Pennsylvania. Todd was born about 1739 probably in Hunterdon County New Jersey to Irish Immigrants Robert Todd and his second wife Elizabeth. His ancestors were alleged to be Scottish rebels and Jacobites, Cavaliers in the Scottish Civil War who had raised the standard of rebellion too often and been exiled to Ireland from their native Angus, Scotland though documentary evidence of this has not been found. His parents were reported by a grandson to have emigrated"
"Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th President of the United States, has been a topic of debate among some scholars. Lincoln was married to Mary Todd from November 4, 1842, until his death on April 15, 1865, and fathered four children with her. Psychologist C. A. Tripp's book, ""The Intimate World of Abraham Lincoln"" (2005,) described Lincoln as having a detached relationship with women, in contrast to a close male friend with whom he allegedly shared a bed (this was not an unusual practice at the time). Dale Carnegie, better known for books on"
"""Christie"" Todd in 1974. They resided on a farm in the Oldwick section of Tewksbury Township, New Jersey. They had a son, Taylor, and a daughter, Kate, and six grandchildren. Whitman served as Chairman and CEO of Prudential-Bache Interfunding from 1987 to 1990. He also was the managing partner of Sycamore Ventures, an international venture capital fund incorporated in the Cayman Islands. During his wife's term as Governor of New Jersey, Whitman held no official role in her administration. He was appointed by his wife as co-chairman of the New Jersey World Cup Host Committee in 1994. He also mediated"
"Betty Ford Elizabeth Anne Ford (; April 8, 1918 – July 8, 2011) was the First Lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977, as the wife of the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford. As First Lady, she was active in social policy and created precedents as a politically active presidential wife. Ford also served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1973 to 1974. Throughout her husband's term in office, she maintained high approval ratings despite opposition from some conservative Republicans who objected to her more moderate and liberal positions on social issues."
"Elizabeth Abell, when she was visiting from her home in Kentucky. In 1836, in a conversation with Elizabeth, Lincoln agreed to court Mary if she ever returned to New Salem. Mary returned in November 1836, and Lincoln courted her for a time, but they had second thoughts about their relationship. On August 16, 1837, Lincoln wrote Mary a letter from Springfield suggesting an end to the relationship. She never replied and the courtship was over. In 1839 Mary Todd moved from her family's home in Lexington, Kentucky, to Springfield and the home of her eldest sister, Elizabeth Porter (née Todd)"
"and died on February 20, 1862, in Washington, D.C., during President Lincoln's first term. Thomas ""Tad"" Lincoln was born on April 4, 1853, and died on July 16, 1871, in Chicago, Illinois. During the American Civil War, four of Mary Todd Lincoln's brothers fought for the Confederacy, with one wounded and another killed in action. Lieutenant David H. Todd, Mary's half-brother, served as commandant of the Libby Prison camp during the war. In the winter of 1842–1843, with the strong encouragement of his wife, Lincoln decided to pursue election to the United States House of Representatives from the newly created"
"Martha Washington Martha Washington (""née"" Dandridge; – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington served as the inaugural First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime she was often referred to as ""Lady Washington"". She had first married Daniel Parke Custis, with whom she had four children, and was widowed by the age of 25. Two of her children by Custis survived to young adulthood. She brought great wealth to her marriage to Washington, which enabled him to"
"from asylum into Elizabeth's care after a trial. Mary died at Elizabeth's home in 1882. Elizabeth died in 1888 and is buried in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield. Elizabeth Todd Edwards Elizabeth Porter Todd Edwards (13 Nov 1813 – 22 Feb 1888) was the sister of Mary Todd Lincoln. She served as Mary's guardian for many years. Mary met Abraham Lincoln in 1839 at Elizabeth Edwards' home, where they later married. In 1875 Elizabeth helped Mary get released from an insane asylum. Elizabeth Edwards was born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1816 to Robert Todd and Elizabeth Parker Todd. She married"
"& Son"". Donald Trump later renamed it The Trump Organization and served as its chairman and president until assuming the office of U.S. President. Born as Mary Anne MacLeod (1912–2000) in Tong, a small village near Stornoway, in the Western Isles of Scotland, she was the daughter of fisherman Malcolm MacLeod and Mary MacLeod (née Smith). At age 17, she immigrated to the United States and started working as a maid in New York. Mary and Donald Trump's father Fred Trump met in New York and married in 1936, settling together in Queens. Mary became a U.S. citizen in 1942."
"sold in 1869. Rodney, the daughter of U.S. Attorney General Caesar Augustus Rodney and granddaughter of Thomas Rodney, was well connected to the prominent political figures and families of the United States throughout the 19th Century, including Mary Todd and her future husband, Abraham Lincoln. Prior to her 1843 marriage to Cushman, Rodney was one of three bridesmaids to Mary Todd Lincoln in her wedding to Abraham Lincoln in Springfield, Illinois on November 4, 1842. Andrew J. O'Conor III House The Andrew J. O'Conor III House, also referred to as ""Riverbend"" and ""Buena Vista,"" is a historic home in the"
"were once more identified through dental records and were reburied in a secret location. !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Husband of Elizabeth Taylor !colspan=""3"" style=""background:#C1D8FF;""| Producer of Academy Award for Best Picture Mike Todd Michael ""Mike"" Todd (born Avrom Hirsch Goldbogen, June 22, 1909 – March 22, 1958) was an American theater and film producer, best known for his 1956 production of ""Around the World in 80 Days"", which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. He is known as the third of Elizabeth Taylor's seven husbands, and is the only one whom she did not divorce (he died in a private plane"
"were based on the same report from a single source. David Donald and Johnson both dispute Tripp's interpretation of Fox's comment, saying that the exclamation of ""What stuff!"" was, in that day, an exclamation over the absurdity of the suggestion rather than the gossip value of it (as in the phrase ""stuff and nonsense""). Sexuality of Abraham Lincoln The sexuality of Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865), the 16th President of the United States, has been a topic of debate among some scholars. Lincoln was married to Mary Todd from November 4, 1842, until his death on April 15, 1865, and fathered four"
"They met in Springfield, Illinois in December 1839 and were engaged the following December. A wedding set for January 1, 1841, was canceled when the two broke off their engagement at Lincoln's initiative. They later met again at a party and married on November 4, 1842, in the Springfield mansion of Mary's married sister. While preparing for the nuptials and feeling anxiety again, Lincoln, when asked where he was going, replied, ""To hell, I suppose."" In 1844, the couple bought a house in Springfield near Lincoln's law office. Mary Todd Lincoln kept house, often with the help of a relative"
"There was also Martha Washington Seminary, a finishing school for young women in Washington, DC, that was founded in 1905 and ceased operations in 1949. Martha Washington Martha Washington (""née"" Dandridge; – May 22, 1802) was the wife of George Washington, the first President of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, Martha Washington served as the inaugural First Lady of the United States. During her lifetime she was often referred to as ""Lady Washington"". She had first married Daniel Parke Custis, with whom she had four children, and was widowed by the age"
"by Audubon's Women In Conservation, was accepted by her daughter Lynda. Lady Bird Johnson Claudia Alta ""Lady Bird"" Johnson (née Taylor; December 22, 1912 – July 11, 2007) was an American socialite and the First Lady of the United States (1963–1969) as the wife of the 36th President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson. She also served as the Second Lady of the United States from 1961 until President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963. Notably well-educated for a woman of her era, she proved a capable manager and a shrewd investor. After marrying Lyndon B. Johnson in 1934"
"Richard Todd, perhaps no man devoted his time and energy to Phi Sigma Pi as much as he had to this point in history. ""He certainly would fit your mental image of an old-fashioned gentleman,"" stated past National President Jack Thornton, Tau 862. ""He and ""Sweetheart"" (term of endearment given to wife Clauda Pennock Todd by Dr. Todd) could not have children, instead, every Brother of Tau Chapter became one of their kids. They were always good for a meal, a place to wash and dry clothes, a place to sleep, a few bucks for bus fare home—whatever was needed."