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In recent years, surnames have become popular to use as first
names. Classrooms are full of little Taylors, Tylers, and
Madisons. Relative newcomers like Carter, Kennedy, Reagan, Grant
and Harrison are zooming up the charts. What do these names have
in common? They are all the names of former U.S. Presidents. Why
these names? Perhaps parents feel they are distinguished and have
more prestige than your average Smith and Jones. Perhaps it's a
nod to our nation's history. Perhaps it's just because WASPy names
are in vogue right now. Whatever the reason, here is a list of the
Presidents of the U.S.A. and their First Ladies.
President |
First
Lady |
George Washington |
Martha
Dandridge |
John Adams |
Abigail Smith |
Thomas Jefferson |
Martha Wayles
Skelton |
James Madison |
Dolly Payne
Todd |
James Monroe |
Elizabeth
"Eliza" Kortright |
John Quincy Adams |
Louisa
Catherine Johnson |
Andrew Jackson |
Rachel
Donelson Robards |
Martin VanBuren |
Hannah Hoes |
William Henry Harrison |
Anna Tuthill
Symmes |
John Tyler |
Julia
Gardiner |
James Knox Polk |
Sarah
Childress |
Zachary Taylor |
Margaret
mackall Smith |
Millard Fillmore |
Abigail
Powers |
Franklin Pierce |
Jane Means
Appleton |
James Buchanan |
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Abraham Lincoln |
Mary Todd |
Andrew Johnson |
Eliza
McCardle |
Ulysses Simpson Grant |
Julia Boggs
Dent |
Rutherford Birchard Hayes |
Lucy Ware
Webb |
James Abram Garfield |
Lucretia
Rudolph |
Chester Alan Arthur |
Ellen Lewis
Herndon |
Grover Cleveland |
Frances
Fulsom |
Benjamin Harrison |
Caroline
Lavinia Scott |
Grover Cleveland |
Frances
Fulsom |
William McKinley |
Ida Saxton |
Theodore Roosevelt |
Edith Kermit
Carow |
William Howard Taft |
Helen Herron |
Woodrow Wilson |
Edith Bolling
Galt |
Warren Gamaliel harding |
Florence
Kling DeWolf |
Calvin Coolidge |
Anna Grace
Goodhew |
Herbert Clark Hoover |
Lou Henry |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
Anna Eleanor
Roosevelt |
Harry s Truman |
Elizabeth
"Bess" Virginia Wallace |
Dwight David Eisenhower |
Mary "Mamie"
Geneva Doud |
John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
Jacqueline
Lee Bouvier |
Lyndon Baines Johnson |
Claudia "Lady
Bird" Alta Taylor |
Richard Milhous Nixon |
Thelma
Patricia "Pat" Catherine Ryan |
Gerald Rudolph Ford |
Elizabeth
"Betty" Bloomer Warren |
James Earl Carter |
Eleanor
Rosalynn Smith |
Ronald Wilson Reagan |
Nancy Davis |
George Herbert Walker Bush |
Barbara
Pierce |
William Jefferson Clinton |
Hillary
Rodham |
George Walker Bush |
Laura Welch |
Barack Hussein Obama |
Michelle
LaVaughn Robinson |
Donald John Trump |
Melania
Knauss |
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