Martha Washington
First Lady of the United States from 1789 to 1797 · United States · Politicians · Lived 1731 to 1802 · aged 70
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Something wrong?Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States.
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Dandridge at age eight
Chestnut Grove plantation
Martha Dandridge Custis in 1757: engraving by John Chester Buttre after a portrait by John Wollaston
The Marriage of Washington to Martha Custis by Junius Brutus Stears (1849)
Martha Custis Washington as a young woman, circa 1843, steel engraving, J. Cheney & J.G. Kellogg
Martha Washington by Rembrandt Peale, circa 1856, based on a portrait by his father, Charles Willson Peale
Republican Court, or, Lady Washington's Reception Day by Daniel Huntington (c. 1861)Family
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Martha Dandridge Custis Washington was the wife of George Washington, who was a Founding Father and the first president of the United States. Although the title was not coined until after her death, she served as the inaugural first lady of the United States, defining the role of the president's wife and setting many precedents that future first ladies observed. During her tenure, she was referred to as "Lady Washington". Washington is consistently ranked in the upper half of first ladies by historians.
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