First Ladies of the United States Test | U.S. Government

Answer: Jimmy Carter

Eleanor Rosalynn Smith was born in Plains, Georgia, the eldest of four children. Their families were acquainted. but Rosalynn did not date Jimmy Carter until 1945, when he was home on leave from the navy. They were married in Plains in 1946.

Answer: Richard Nixon

Thelma Catherine Ryan was born in Nevada and grew up in Los Angeles, California. Upon entering College, she dropped her first name Thelma and started using Pat or Patricia. This was not a legal change, only her personal preference. Richard Nixon asked Pat to marry him on their first night out. They courted for two years and eventually were married in 1940.

Answer: George W. Bush

Laura Welch was born in Midland Texas. She earned a bachelors degree in education and a masters degree in library science. She met George W. Bush at a mutual friend's barbeque and were married after a three month courtship.

Answer: Bill Clinton

Hillary Rodham had been the first lady of Arkansas when Bill Clinton was governor of Arkansas. She was first lady when Bill Clinton was president from 1993 - 2001. After being first lady she was elected to the senate from New York in 2000, and sought the nomination for president in 2008. She was appointed Secretary of State in the Barack Obama administration.

Answer: Dwight Eisenhower

Mamie Geneva Doud, the daughter of a meatpacking executive, was born in Boone, Iowa. Her family had a winter home in San Antonio, Texas and it was there that
she met lieutenant Dwight Eisenhower, when he was stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. They were married in 1916, and she began the life of a military officer's wife.

Answer: Ronald Reagan

Anne Frances Robbins was born in New York. Her parents divorced soon after her birth and she spent part of her childhood in Maryland. Her mother married Loyal Davis and he formally adopted her and her name was legally changed to Nancy Davis. She was first lady of California when her husband was governor of California.

She was first lady when Ronald Reagan was president of the United States.

Answer: Lyndon Baines Johnson

Claudia Alta Taylor was born in Karnack, Texas, the daughter of a wealthy business man. She used part of her inheritance to buy a radio station in 1943, in Austin, Texas. In 1952 she purchased a television station, also in Austin. She was a successful businesswoman, and was the first president's wife to become a millionare in her own right.

Answer: Gerald Ford

Elizabeth Ann Bloomer was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was raised in Grand Rapids, Michigan. She attended Bennington school of Dance in Bennington, Vermont, where she studied dance under choreographers Martha Graham and Hanya Holm. She worked as a fashion model and dancer. She married Gerald Ford in 1948, while he was campaigning for Congress.

Answer: John F. Kennedy

Jacqueline Lee Bouvier was born in Southampton, New York the daughter of a wealthy wall street broker. Her parents divorced in 1940 and in 1942 her mother married Hugh D. Auchincloss, an heir to Standard Oil. She attended Vassar College in New York, and the University of Grenoble in France. She met John Kennedy at a social dinner party and they were married in 1953.

Answer: George H. W. Bush

Barbara Pierce was born in Flushing, New York, the daughter of Marvin Pierce the future president of McCall corporation, a publishing company. She was the fourth cousin, four times removed, of Franklin Pierce, the fourteenth president. She was the wife of George H. W. Bush the forty-first president and the mother of George W. Bush, the forty-third president.