FLOTUS – Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor

FLOTUS – Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor

A.K.A.: Peggy Taylor

D.O.B.: September 21, 1788

P.O.B.: Calvert County, Maryland

Relationship to POTUS: Wife of Zachary Taylor

5 facts:

• Was rather reclusive and austere

• There have been few to know authenticated images of her over the years

• She was unhappy her husband was elected President

• She was a semi invalid as First Lady

• As such, her daughter Mary Elizabeth “Betty” Taylor Bliss (later Dandridge) took over the social role of First Lady

• She died shortly after her husband, in 1852

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