Martha Jefferson Randolph - First Lady of The United States

First Lady of The United States

She is now considered to have been First Lady of the United States from March 4, 1801 to March 3, 1809; as her father was a widower, she acted as his official hostess. She was the first First Lady not to be a wife of the president. She earned a reputation as an intellectual.

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