Dandridge, Smith, Wayles, Payne, Kortright, Johnson, Donelson, Hoes, Symmes, and Christian are the first ten names that appear on what list?
Note: there are forty-five entries in the entire list. There may be some controversy over Wayles, depending on how membership on the list is precisely defined.
First Ladies’s maiden names.
No idea why Wayles is controversial, though.
For controversy, how about “King”?
Darn sidebar comment list — I saw your answer before I even saw the question.
Damn, I should have thought of that and put in spoiler space. Sorry.
Rot13!!!
Abigail Rot13 Fillmore, Mrs. Millard?
Would that more first ladies followed her example.
Oh, I do see why now. I had no idea she died that young.
Props to Mike Schilling!
Wow, impressive. I don’t think I’ve ever seen MonTriv already solved by the time I check in Monday morning.
Quibble: Jefferson’s First Lady [the term wasn’t even used yet] was his daughter, not his widow, and whose maiden name would be Jefferson.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Jefferson_Randolph
[Daughters served several times for widowers; the unmarried James Buchanan’s “first lady” was a niece.]
Did I say widow? Duh. You know what I mean.
Thus the controversy. Jefferson’s wife died before Jefferson became President.
Aye, Burt. Tyler and Wilson each had two, and Wiki counts Mrs. Grover Cleveland twice as we do him, for 46. [We’ve had 43 presidents and 45 First Ladies.]
How many World Wars?
Only one of Wilson’s acted as First Lady. The other went Galt.