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Tag Archives: Feather Schwartz Foster
FIRST DADS: A Book Review
Author Joshua Kendall has whipped up a dandy light-history read! FIRST DADS is filled with stories, tidbits and gossip about our Presidents – and how they stacked up as fathers. Or not. The author begins with an important premise (not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Recommended Reading
Tagged "First Dads", Fathers in the White House, Feather Schwartz Foster, George Washington, Jack Custis, John Adams, John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams, Joshua Kendall, President Obama as father, President Theodore Roosevelt, Presidential fathers, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford B. Hayes as father, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt as father, Ulysses S Grant as father, Ulysses S. Grant
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The White House Nellie Weddings
White House Weddings Before Ulysses S. Grant was even born, there had been weddings in the White House. During James Madison’s administration, Dolley Madison’s widowed sister married her second husband, Thomas Todd. Some years later, James Monroe’s daughter Maria Hester … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Nifty History People, Ulysses S. Grant, Woodrow Wilson
Tagged Algernon Sartoris, American history, Dolley Madison, Eleanor Randolph Wilson, Ellen Wilson, Ellen Wrenshall Grant, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Family history, Grant son-in-las Sartoris, history, James Madison, James Monroe, Jessie Woodrow Wilson, John Adams II, John Quincy Adams, Julia Grant, Maria Hester Monroe, Nell Wilson McAdoo, Nellie Grant, Nellie Grant Sartoris, President Grant, President U.S. Grant, President Woodrow Wilson, Treasury Secretary William G. McAdoo, Ulysses S. Grant, US history, Weddings in the White House, White House history, White House weddings, William G.McAdoo, Woodrow Wilson
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Bess Truman’s First Press Conference
Few First Ladies were more reluctant to be in the public eye than Bess Truman. Mrs. Truman becomes FLOTUS Late in the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Bess Truman (1885-1982) received a phone call from her husband. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Harry S Truman
Tagged American history, Bess Truman, Bess Truman's mother, Chief Justice Harlan Stone, Eleanor Roosevelt, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Bess Truman, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady History, Harry S Truman, Harry Truman becomes President, history, Madge Gates Wallace, Madge Wallace, Mrs. Harry Truman, President Franklin D Roosevelt, President Harry S Truman, Presidential history, Presidential wives, the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt, White House history US history
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The Jackson-Hayes-Clinton Connection
Losing a father as a boy is not unusual. Losing a father before you are born is VERY unusual. Posthumous Children Posthumous children, those whose fathers die before the child is born is rare – even in an age when … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Andrew Jackson, Rutherford Hayes
Tagged American history, Andrew Jackson, Bill Clinton, Feather Schwartz Foster, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, GHW Bush, Hayes Uncle Sardis Birchard, history, Posthumous Presidents, President Andrew Jackson, President Bill Clinton, President Clinton, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Hayes, President Jackson, President Rutherford B. Hayes, Presidential history, Rutherford B. Hayes, Rutherford Hayes, Sardis Birchard, US history, William Clinton, William J. Clinton
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The Death of Warren Harding
With the possible exception of John F. Kennedy, no president’s death generated more speculation and controversies than that of Warren G. Harding. The President Dies On August 2, 1923, the country was stunned when the news came over the telegraph … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Warren G. Harding
Tagged "Doc" Sawyer, American history, Dr. Charles Sawyer, Dr. Joel T. Boone, Evalyn Walsh McLean, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Ladies, First Lady Florence Harding, First Lady History, Florence Harding, FLorence Kling Harding, Harding's mistress Nan Britton, history, homeopathic doctors, Nan Britton, President Warren Harding, presidential deaths, Presidential history, The death of Warren Harding, The Marion Star, US history, Warren G. Harding, Warren Harding, White House history
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Lincoln’s General’s Wives: A Book Review
The American Civil War created powerful generals with powerful and sometimes peculiar personalities. In a remarkably intelligent and readable quadography, author Candice Shy Hooper has brought to life four interesting(ish) women who were thrust into a spotlight(ish) because of the … Continue reading
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Tagged "Lincoln's Generals' Wives", American Civil War, American history, Candice Shy Hooper, Civil War Wives, Ellen Ewing Sherman, Ellen Marcy McClellan, Ellen McClellan, Feather Schwartz Foster, General George B. McClellan, General Ulysses Grant, General William T. Sherman, George B. McClellan, Jessie Benton Fremont, John C. Fremont, Julia Dent Grant, Julia Grant, Mrs. William T. Sherman, Nelly McClellan, US history, William T. Sherman
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Calvin Coolidge and Hell
In 1920, the office of Vice President was considered a geopolitical accommodation, thus inconsequential. Calvin Coolidge, Vice Presidential Candidate Few vice presidential resumes were more inconsequential than that of Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933). Born in Vermont, he graduated Amherst College and … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Calvin Coolidge
Tagged American history, Boston Police Strike, Calvin Coolidge, Calvin Coolidge becomes VP, Calvin Coolidge quotations, Calvin Coolidge Senate President, Calvin Coolidge wit, Feather Schwartz Foster, Governor Coolidge of Massachusetts, Grace Coolidge, history, Presidential history, The election of 1920, US history, US Vice Presidents
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First Lady Nellie Taft and the CSO
Helen Herron Taft had two passions in her life. First and foremost was politics. Then came music. Nellie Taft: Musician and Politician Piano lessons was practically a given in most nineteenth century middle-class families. Of course, then as now, not … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, William Howard Taft
Tagged American history, Annie Taft, Charles Phelps Taft, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Feather Schwartz Foster, Federation of Woman's Clubs, First Ladies, First Ladies history, Founding the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Helen Herron Taft, history, Lucy Hayes, Mrs. William Howard Taft, Nellie Taft, President Benjamin Harrison, President Rutherford B. Hayes, President William McKinley, Presidential history, Presidential wives, Rutherford B. Hayes, Solicitor General Taft, the "CSO", The Taft family, US history, White House history, William Howard Taft, Woman's Clubs
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Abraham Lincoln and His Father-in-Law
Abraham Lincoln never had a chance to spend serious time with Robert Smith Todd, his father-in-law, but there was a solid bond nevertheless. Miss Mary Todd, Bride When Abraham Lincoln married Miss Mary Todd, he was nearly thirty-three. She was … Continue reading
Posted in A POTUS-FLOTUS Blog, Abraham Lincoln, Nifty History People
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, American history, Elizabeth Todd Edwards, Feather Schwartz Foster, First Lady Mary Todd, Illinois history, Lincoln history, Mary Lincoln, Mary Lincoln's father Robert S. Todd, Mary Lincoln's parents, Mary Todd Lincoln, Ninian Edwards Jr, President Abraham Lincoln, Robert Smith Todd, Robert Todd Lincoln, the birth of Robert TOdd Lincoln, the courtship of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, The wedding of Abraham and Mary Lincoln, US history
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