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Martha Washington Abigail Adams Martha Jefferson Dolley Madison Elizabeth Monroe Louisa Adams Rachel Jackson Hannah Van Buren Anna Harrison Letitia Tyler Julia Tyler Sarah Polk Margaret Taylor Abigail Fillmore Jane Pierce Harriet Lane Johnson Mary Lincoln Eliza Johnson Julia Grant Lucy Hayes Lucretia Garfield Ellen Arthur Frances Cleveland Caroline Harrison Ida McKinley Edith Roosevelt Helen Taft Ellen Wilson Edith Wilson Florence Harding Grace Coolidge Lou Hoover Eleanor Roosevelt Bess Truman Mamie Eisenhower Jacqueline Kennedy Lady Bird Johnson Pat Nixon Betty Ford Rosalynn Carter Nancy Reagan Barbara Bush Hillary Rodham Clinton Laura Bush Michelle Obama	Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor Margaret (Peggy) was born in Calvert County, Maryland on September 21, 1788. Her father was a wealthy planter and a former officer in the Revolutionary War. She married Zachary Taylor on June 21, 1810. She never had her picture taken or a painting done of her. They had six children. Two of the girls died young in 1820 of fever. Her daughter Sarah eloped with Jefferson Davis, the future president of the Confederacy. Margaret asked her daughter Betty to act as the hostess at White House events. Her husband died on July 9, 1850. Margaret then left the Whitehouse and never spoke of her time there again. She died on August 18, 1852. She was buried in Louisville, Kentucky.	Topics First Ladies Home U.S. Presidents Home

	Sources of Information: Books: Barden, Cindy,Meet the First Ladies, Lorenz Corp. Gormley, Beatrice,First Ladies: Women Who Called The White House Home (First Ladies) , Scholastic Paperbacks, 1997 Smith, Carter, Editor,Smithsonian Presidents and First Ladies DK Publishing, New York, 2002 Web Sites: The White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/ Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/odmdhtml/
	This page was updated: May 8, 2012

Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor