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Mr. Beat goes through the accomplishments and legacies of every single First Lady in American history.

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Sources/further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lady_of_the_United_States
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_first_gentlemen_in_the_United_States
A Companion to First Ladies by Katherine Sibley
The Presidents Fact Book by Roger Matuz
https://www.whitehousehistory.org/collections/first-lady-biographies
http://firstladies.org/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/woodrow-wilson-stroke
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_First_Lady_firsts

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2021/09/07/jill-biden-teaching-northern-virginia-community-college-person/5750639001/
http://www.mrlincolnswhitehouse.org/the-white-house/changes-white-house/changes-white-house-looting-destruction-white-house-1864-65/

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0:00 Introduction
0:13 First Lady of the United States
2:25 Martha Washington (1789-1797)
2:47 Abigail Adams (1791-1801)
4:22 Elizabeth Monroe (1817-1825)
5:46 Emily Donelson
6:01 Petticoat affair
6:52 Abraham Van Buren
7:17 Anna Harrison (1841)
7:46 Letitia Tyler (1841-1842)
8:24 Julia Tyler
8:53 Sarah Polk
9:31 Margaret Taylor (1849-1850)
10:07 Abigail Fillmore (1850-1853)
11:00 Jane Pierce (1853-1857)
11:53 Harriet Lane (1857-1861)
12:29 Mary Todd Lincoln (1861-1865)
12:59 Eliza Johnson (1865-1869)
13:24 Julia Grant (1869-1877)
14:01 Lucy Hayes (1877-1881)
14:37 Lucretia Garfield (1881)
16:07 Rose Cleveland
17:28 Caroline Harrison (1889-1893)
18:05 Ida McKinley (1897-1901)
18:36 Edith Roosevelt (1901-1909)
19:16 Cecil Spring Rice
19:27 Helen Taft (1909-1913)
20:21 Ellen Wilson (1913-1914)
21:14 Edith Wilson (1915-1921)
22:22 Florence Harding (1921-1923)
23:02 Grace Coolidge (1923-1929)
23:34 Lou Hoover (1929-1933)
23:51 Eleanor Roosevelt (1933-1945)
25:21 Elizabeth Truman (1945-1953)
25:44 Mamie Eisenhower (1953-1961)
27:13 Claudia Johnson (1963-1969)
27:30 Pat Nixon
28:30 Betty Ford (1974-1977)
30:08 Barbara Bush (1989-1993)
31:38 Laura Bush (2001-2009)
32:08 Michelle Obama (2009-2017)
32:51 Melania Trump (2017-2021)