ExclusiveAnna Harrison: Duty, Loss, and Legacy

Anna Harrison is the only American First Lady who never set foot in the White House, and this is because she was widowed before she could become her presidential husband’s hostess. Anna, who suffered from poor health throughout her life, was too sickly to accompany her husband, ninth president William Henry Harrison, to Washington D. C. in March when he took office but planned to join him in May; A month before she could, however, she was suddenly widowed, after forty-two years of marriage and ten children together. Anna Harrison is the only woman to be both wife and grandmother to US presidents, since she helped raise her grandson Benjamin Harrison.

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