Famous First Lady
First Lady Melania Trump (Mrs. Donald John Trump)
Monday, February 27, 2017
First Lady Melania Trump visited the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon.
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Michelle Robinson Obama (Mrs. Barack Hussein Obama)
August 2009
First Lady of the United States (2009-2016). Made an informal visit to Mount Vernon with her mother, and daughters Malia and Sasha.
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Laura Bush (Mrs. George W. Bush)
Spring 2001 and other occasions
First Lady of the United States (2001-2009). Came to Mount Vernon with members of her Austin, Texas, garden club. (Spring 2001) Came back to visit the estate with friends in 2003 and again in 2007, first with her husband to celebrate President's Day, and later in the year with the wife of the Japanese Prime Minister.
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Hillary Rodham Clinton (Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton)
1999
First Lady of the United States hosted a luncheon at Mount Vernon.
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Barbara Bush (Mrs. George Herbert Walker Bush)
Wednesday, June 17, 1992
First Lady of the United States (1989-1993).
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Rosalynn Carter (Mrs. Jimmy Carter)
Thursday, September 08, 1977
First Lady of the United States (1977-1981). Accompanied a group of wives of Latin American dignitaries to Mount Vernon; the ladies and their husbands were in Washington for the signing of the Panama Canal Treaty.
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Lady Bird Johnson (Mrs. Lyndon Johnson)
1965 and several other occasions
Lady Bird Johnson came to Mount Vernon on several occasions as First Lady and at least once prior to that.
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Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy (Mrs. John Fitzgerald Kennedy)
1961 and 1962
First Lady of the United States (1961-1963). In addition to her much-heralded state dinner at Mount Vernon for Pakistani President Ayub Khan in 1961, she also came out to the estate the following year, just to have a peaceful place to ride her horse.
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Eleanor Roosevelt (Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt)
1933 and many other occasions
First Lady of the United States (1933-1945).
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Lou Henry Hoover (Mrs. Herbert Hoover)
1929 and several other occasions
First Lady of the United States (1929-1933). Came to Mount Vernon on several occasions during her husband's presidency.
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