The mothers of American Presidents

by Doris Faber

Rebekah Baines Johnson; Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy; Ida Stover Eisenhower; Martha Young Truman; Sara Delano Roosevelt; Jessie Woodrow Wilson; Louisa Torrey Taft; Martha Bulloch Roosevelt; Eliza Ballow Garfield; Nancy Hanks Lincoln; Abigail Smith Adams; Mary Ball Washington; and in brief: Hulda Minthorn Hoover; Victoria Moor Coolidge; Phoebe Harding; Nancy McKinley; Ann Cleveland; Elizabeth Harrison; Malvina Arthur; Sophia Hayes; Hannah Grant; Mary Johnson; Elizabeth Buchanan; Anna Pierce; Phoebe Fillmore; Sarah Taylor; Jane Polk; Mary Tyler; Elizabeth Harrison; Maria Hoes Van Alen Van Buren; Elizabeth Monroe; Nelly Madison; Jane Jefferson; and Susanna Adams.