From the Foundation Up

Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
(1789-1797)
Abigail Smith Adams (1797-1801)
Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1801-1809)
Martha Jefferson Randolph (1801-1809)

Struggling To Stand

Dolley Payne Todd Madison (1809-1817)
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe (1817-1825)
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
(1825-1829)
Emily Donelson (1829-1836)
Sarah Yorke Jackson (1836-1837)
Angelica Singleton Van Buren
(1838-1841)
Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison (1841)

Annexation and Division

Letitia Christian Tyler (1841-1842)
Julia Gardiner Tyler (1844-1845)
Sarah Childress Polk (1845-1849)
Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
(1849-1850)
Abigail Powers Fillmore (1850-1853)
Jane Means Appleton Pierce (1853-1857)
Harriet Lane (1857-1861)
Mary Todd Lincoln (1861-1865)
Eliza McCardle Johnson (1865-1869)
 

Julia Boggs Dent Grant (1869-1877)
Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (1877-1881)
Lucretia Rudolph Garfield (1881)
Mary Arthur McElroy (1881-1885)

With Courage and Determination

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (1913-1914)
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1915-1921)
Florence Kling Harding (1921-1923)
Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
(1923-1929)
Lou Henry Hoover (1929-1933)
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1933-1945)
Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman (1945-1953)
Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
(1953-1961)
 

The People's House

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
(1961-1963)
Claudia Taylor Johnson (1963-1969)
Thelma Patricia Ryan Nixon (1969-1974)
Elizabeth Bloomer Ford (1974-1977)

The Great House Endures

Rosalynn Smith Carter (1977-1981)
Nancy Davis Reagan (1981-1989)
Barbara Pierce Bush (1989-1993)
Hillary Rodham Clinton (1993-2001)
Laura Welch Bush (2001-2008)
Michelle Robinson Obama (2009-2012)