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19 unusual facts about first lady


Albert Berghaus

In 1996, an original Berghaus sketch belonging to Jacqueline Kennedy that was purchased during her time as First Lady was sold at the Sotheby's auction of her belongings.

Ana Paula dos Santos

Ana Paula Cristovão Lemos dos Santos (born October 17, 1963) is the wife of current President of Angola, José Eduardo dos Santos and First Lady of the South-West African state.

Deputy Mayoress of Wigan

When the deputy mayor is a lady, their partner fills in an equivalent role of a Second Gentleman as 'The Deputy Mayors Consort'.

Similar to being a Second Lady their role often includes supporting the deputy mayor by attending engagements, and supporting the mayor and mayoress in their role as well as standing in their absence.

Ellen McCulloch-Lovell

Under the Clinton administration, she worked as executive director of the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities, deputy chief of staff to the First Lady, and deputy assistant to the President and advisor to the First Lady on the Millennium Project.

First Lady

Following the leadership spill which installed Julia Gillard as the first female Prime Minister of Australia on 24 June 2010, some news media referred to her de facto partner, Tim Mathieson, as the "First Bloke".

South Korean President Park Geun-hye has been referred to as First Lady to former President Park Chung-hee, who is her father.

In 1994, Peruvian president Alberto Fujimori officially named his daughter Keiko "First Lady", after he had separated from his wife Susana Higuchi.

Iris Falcam

Falcam served as the First Lady of the Federated States of Micronesia from 1999 to 2003 during the tenure of her husband, former President Leo Falcam.

K. G. Shantha

On 16 December 2011, a house was donated to his family, which was constructed by the Naval Engineering Division with funding from First Lady Shiranthi Rajapaksa.

Katalin Makray

She was the First Lady of Hungary from 2010 to 2012, during her husband's presidency at the Sándor Palace.

Kavu Iloilo

Adi Salaseini Kavunono (born 12 May 1923) was the First Lady of Fiji.

Kirsty Sword Gusmão

From May 2002 to May 2007, Xanana was President of Timor-Leste, and Sword Gusmão was its First Lady.

Maria Cavaco Silva

Maria Alves da Silva Cavaco Silva (born São Bartolomeu de Messines, 19 March 1938) is the wife of Aníbal Cavaco Silva, incumbent President of the Portuguese Republic and, as such, is the current First Lady of Portugal, since her husband's election in 2006.

Mayoress of Wigan

The role is equivalent to being the First Lady or First Gentleman of Wigan, if there is a Mayor's Consort in place of a Mayoress.

Meg Scott Phipps

She is the daughter of former North Carolina governor Bob Scott and former First Lady Jessie Rae Scott, as well as the granddaughter of former U.S. Senator and North Carolina Governor W. Kerr Scott.

Sandra Roelofs

Sandra Elisabeth Roelofs (born December 23, 1968) is a Dutch linguist and the First Lady of Georgia from 2004 to 2013, when her husband Mikheil Saakashvili assumed the presidency.

The Audacity of Democracy

Citing alleged electoral malfeasance including caucus fraud on the part of rival candidate Barack Obama's juggernaut campaign, PUMA attempted, without success, to secure the Democratic Party's presidential nomination for their candidate of choice, Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton.

Wayne Townsend

First Lady Rosalynn Smith Carter telephoned Townsend and urged him to switch his vote.


1983 NBA draft

Robinson, who led the Beavers to the 2009 College Basketball Invitational title, has an additional claim to fame as the older brother of current First Lady Michelle Obama.

A Tuna Christmas

Sears and Williams did command performances of both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas at the White House for President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

Alice Koroma

Also in attendance at the funeral in the Wesleyan Church in Makeni included Christians and Muslims religious leaders, senior Sierra Leone Police officers, including Inspector General of the Sierra Leone Police Francis Alieu Munu, and members of the international delegations, mainly from West Africa including the First Lady of Nigeria Patience Jonathan.

Auburn Button Works and Logan Silk Mills

Logan Silk Mills was famous for providing the silk for the gown of the First Lady Caroline Harrison wore when her husband, Benjamin Harrison, was inaugurated the 23rd President of the United States in 1889.

Barbara Staff

Ray Barnhart criticized First Lady Betty Ford for having "danced a jig" with singer Tony Orlando when Nancy Davis Reagan made her entrance to the convention hall; Staff termed Mrs. Ford's behavior "a low, cheap shot" to divert attention from the Reagan campaign.

Bettina Wulff

Bettina Wulff (née Körner; 25 October 1973) is the wife of the former German President Christian Wulff and was therefore sometimes referred to by the media as the "First Lady" during her husband's presidency.

Chaudhry Naseer Ahmad Malhi

In his efforts to elevate Pakistan's fledgling profile, Lord Malhi hosted a historic dinner for Eleanor Roosevelt, President of the United Nations General Assembly and former First Lady of the United States.

Cornell University College of Human Ecology

As the wife of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York from 1928 to 1932, and later as America's First Lady, from 1933 to 1945 (during her husband's tenure as President of the United States), she employed her fame and influence in ways that resulted in greater financial support for home economics programs and increased publicity for the College.

Djene Kaba Condé

Hadja Djene Kaba Condé (born in Kankan, Guinea) is the wife of the President of Guinea Alpha Condé and the current First Lady of Guinea.

Đồng Khánh

Madame Nhu, the First Lady of South Vietnam from 1955–63, was a great-granddaughter of Đồng Khánh.

Edith Roosevelt

After William McKinley's assassination, Mrs. Roosevelt assumed her new duties as First Lady with characteristic dignity.

Emlain Kabua

Emlain Kabua is the former First Lady of the Marshall Islands and the widow of former Marshallese President Amata Kabua.

First Lady of Egypt

Naglaa Mahmoud, wife of former President Mohamed Morsi (2012-2013), rejected the title of First Lady, preferring to be called "First Servant," the "president's wife," or "Um Ahmed," a traditional name which means mother of Ahmed, her oldest son.

Gloria Saatjian

Gloria May Deukmejian (née Saatjian; November 1, 1932) is a former first lady of California (1983–1991) and the wife of former California governor George Deukmejian.

Greater Tuna

Sears and Williams did command performances of both Greater Tuna and A Tuna Christmas at the White House for President George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush.

Guam Museum

Other dignitaries in attendance at the grounbreaking ceremony included First Lady of Guam Christine Calvo, Speaker Judy Won Pat, Vice Speaker B.J. Cruz, Mayor of Hagåtña John Cruz, Archbishop Anthony Sablan Apuron, and Chairman of the Guam Visitors Bureau Mark Baldyga.

Jennie Eisenhower

She is the granddaughter of former U.S. President Richard Nixon and former First Lady Pat Nixon and the great-granddaughter of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and former First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.

Kiss cam

The kiss cam became widely known outside the US and Canada on July 16, 2012, when US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama were 'caught' twice by the kiss cam during an international basketball match between Team USA and Brazil at the Verizon Center in Washington D.C. The president kissed his wife on the second occasion.

Little Loomhouse

On a visit in the 1940s while still the First Lady, Eleanor Roosevelt crushed a floorboard, which she later signed; it is now lost.

Manny Ramjohn

Manny Ramjohn was the cousin of former President of Trinidad and Tobago Noor Hassanali and of the present First Lady Dr. Jean Ramjohn-Richards wife of President George Maxwell Richards.

Mount Sungay

The mountain was leveled to about half of its former prominence to accommodate the Palace in the Sky of the former First Lady, a mansion originally intended as a guesthouse for former California Gov. Ronald Reagan - who never arrived.

Ohio Wesleyan Female College

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

Pat Fordice

Patricia Owens "Pat" Fordice (November 27, 1935 – July 12, 2007) was the First Lady of Mississippi from 1992 until 1999 as the wife of Governor Kirk Fordice.

Paul v. Clinton

The plaintiff, Peter F. Paul, alleged that President Bill Clinton and his wife, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, deceived him into paying for the Gala Hollywood Farewell Salute to President Clinton, during Hillary Clinton's first Senate race in 2000, by making a promise that the President would work for Paul's company, Stan Lee Media, after his Presidential term was over.

Structural insulated panel

In 1937, a small stressed-skin house was constructed and garnered enough attention to bring in First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to dedicate the house.

Texas Conference for Women

Governor Rick Perry and First Lady Anita Perry are the official hosts of the event, which has featured keynote speakers including Dr. Maya Angelou, poet, author, educator and historian; Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, writer and family health advocate; Carly Fiorina, former CEO of HP; Maria Hinojosa, Emmy-nominated journalist and author; and Melinda French Gates, co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Veronica Pedrosa

Mrs. Navarro Pedrosa wrote a critical biography of the then-First Lady Imelda Marcos, during the Martial Law Era in the Philippines.

Wichita Falls Independent School District

In 2005, Hirschi High School IB World Topics teacher Sherry Lindemann was named Texas Teacher of the Year where she represented the WFISD and thousands of Texas teachers at a formal ceremony held by President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush in the White House Rose Garden.