FLOTUS – Lucy Ware Webb Hayes

FLOTUS – Lucy Ware Webb Hayes

A.K.A.: Lucy Hayes

D.O.B.: August 28, 1831

P.O.B.: Chillicothe, Ohio

Relationship to POTUS: Wife of Rutherford B. Hayes

5 facts:

• Was the first First Lady with a college degree

• Was the first person to invite an African-American professional musician to the White House

• Was strongly pro Temperance

• Came from an anti-slavery family of doctors

• Had some interest in the suffragette movement

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