ExclusiveMary Lincoln: First Lady Lincoln

As the wife of Abraham Lincoln, Mary Todd Lincoln did not share her husband’s popularity in her own day or his favorable historical legacy. From girlhood, Mary predicted that her future husband would become president, and she made her own prediction come true by pushing, prodding, and even nagging her naturally retiring husband all the way to the White House. As the first presidential wife to frequently be called “First Lady,” Mary Lincoln had the unenviable position of being the White House hostess during one of the most contentious periods in American history.

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