Status Updates From The First Ladies of the Uni...

Polk is a close second. The first educated First Lady.

I'm through Eisenhower, and I think my favorite so far is... Lou Hoover? I know, it also surprised me.

I can sum up the First Ladies through #17. "I'm frail, I will die soon, I've buried 3 children, please don't make me go to Washington"

So many of these women were forgotten in history ( probably because they died in childbirth before their husbands were even president) but certainly shaped the lives of the presidents. After Jefferson's wife Martha died his daughter said " the violence in his emotion, to this day I dare not describe it." For three weeks he paced his room until exhausted.