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4 unusual facts about Lucy Webb Hayes


Lucy Webb Hayes

As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served.

In the Lucky Luke comic book Sarah Bernhardt, which is set in the late 19th-century Wild West, President Rutherford B. Hayes's wife is portrayed as being one of many who strongly disapproves of the titular actress's tour of the United States, given her reputation for loose morality.

During the Spanish-American War, he was commissioned as an officer and received the Medal of Honor while serving in the Philippines.

Ohio Wesleyan Female College

Lucy Webb Hayes, class 1850, First Lady of the United States during the presidency of her husband Rutherford B. Hayes.


Webb Hayes

Born as James Webb Cook Hayes, he was the second son of President Rutherford B. Hayes and Lucy Webb Hayes.


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