Lucy Hayes | |
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First Lady of the United States | |
In role March 4, 1877 – March 4, 1881 | |
President | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Preceded by | Julia Grant |
Succeeded by | Lucretia Garfield |
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Born | Chillicothe, Ohio, U.S. | August 28, 1831
Died | June 25, 1889 Fremont, Ohio, U.S. | (aged 57)
Spouse(s) | Rutherford B. Hayes |
Children | Birchard Austin Hayes James Webb Cook Hayes Rutherford Platt Hayes Joseph Thompson Hayes George Crook Hayes Frances Hayes Scott Russell Hayes Manning Force Hayes |
Occupation | First Lady of the United States |
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Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (August 28, 1831 – June 25, 1889) was a First Lady of the United States[1] and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes.
Lucy was nicknamed "Lemonade Lucy." She did not serve alcohol in the White House.
She was born in Chillicothe, Ohio. She was the daughter of James Webb, a doctor, and Maria Cook-Webb. Lucy was descended from seven veterans of the American Revolution. Her father died when she was a child. With her mother, she moved to Delaware, Ohio where in 1847 she met Rutherford B. Hayes.
Lucy Hayes studied at Ohio Wesleyan University. She was the first First Lady to graduate from college.
As First Lady, Hayes supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions, excepting only the reception for Grand Duke Alexei Alexandrovich of Russia in 1877, at which wine was served. She also instituted the custom of conducting an Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. A devout Methodist, she joined the president in saying prayers after breakfast and conducting group hymn sings with the cabinet and congressmen on Sunday evenings.
The Hayes had four sons and a daughter to live to their adulthood:
She died of a stroke on June 25, 1889. When she died, people in the United States lowered the flag to half-mast.
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