by Michele Genthon | Oct 21, 2015 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Hillary Clinton was the first First Lady ever elected to national office (Senator from New York) and the First Woman to win a presidential primary, in New Hampshire in 2008. She was not the first First Lady to be influential; Eleanor Roosevelt, wife of Franklin D....
by Michele Genthon | Mar 24, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Eleanor Roosevelt was the first woman to hold a press conference as a First Lady. She was also the first First Lady to write a newspaper column, or speak at a national convention. Eleanor Roosevelt was educated at the Allenswood Girl’s Academy in London where Marie...
