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America's First Ladies —from Martha Washington to Michelle Obama

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Edith Roosevelt

First Lady: 1901 - 1909

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Edith Roosevelt Program
Up Next: Edith Roosevelt
Edith Roosevelt's approach to being First Lady
Difference from Theodore's first wife
Creation of White House First Ladies gallery
Strictly running the White House
Role in transforming White House
Death of Edith Roosevelt's Son Quentin
Life After the White House & Travel
Speaking at a GOP Rally in New York City in 1932
Running Sagamore Hill
Sagamore Hill Family Life Artifacts
Pine Knot Family Getaway
White House Years
Quote on her Children
Roosevelt Children in the White House
Life After the White House
White House Renovations
Education
Her Influence
Family Life
After the White House
The Secret Service
Influence on her Husband
Rose Garden
Animals in the White House
Motherhood
Influence on the White House
Entertaining in the White House
Public Opinion on Edith Roosevelt's White House Renovations
Theodore Roosevelt Biographical Vignette
Book Discussion on Edith Kermit Roosevelt: Portrait of a First Lady

Biography

Edith Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt to William Howard Taft: “I take the keenest pride in seeing Mrs. Roosevelt at the head of the White House—a gentlewoman, who gives to all the official life...an air of gracious and dignified simplicity, and who with it all is the ideal of a good American wife and mother who takes care of her six children in the most devoted manner...Mrs. Roosevelt comes a good deal nearer my ideal than I do myself.”

Born - August 6, 1861 in Norwich, Connecticut

Parents - Charles Carow & Gertrude Elizabeth Tyler Carow

Married - December 2, 1886 to Theodore Roosevelt

Children - Theodore (1887 – 1944),
Kermit (1889 – 1943),
Ethel Carow (1891 – 1977),
Archibald Bulloch (1894 – 1979),
Quentin (1897 – 1918)

Education - Miss Comstock’s School in New York, New York

Post White House residence - Sagamore Hill, Oyster Bay, New York

Died - September 30, 1948 in Oyster Bay, New York

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Did You Know...

Mrs. Roosevelt officially changed the name of the Executive Mansion to the White House.

Mrs. Roosevelt established the First Ladies’ gallery on the first floor entry way in the White House.

Mrs. Roosevelt made major renovations to the White House in 1902, including the creation of the West Wing.

Mrs. Roosevelt had the first White House Social Secretary, Isabelle Hagner.