List of First Ladies of the United States by longevity
- List of First Ladies of the United States by longevity
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At 97 years, 247 days, Bess Truman is the longest-lived First Lady to date.]
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Betty Ford is currently the oldest living First Lady at age 90.] This is a list of First Ladies of the United States by longevity. Where the person in question is still living, the longevity is calculated up to FULLDATE.
List by longevity
To allow for the differing number of leap days occurring within the life of each First Lady or wife, two measures of longevity are given. The first column is the number of days between date of birth and date of death, allowing for leap days; the second column breaks this number down into years and days, with the years being the number of whole years the First Lady or wife lived, and the days being the remaining number of days after her last birthday.
Women who never became First Lady, even though they were married to a man who became or was a former President
Deaths of note
First Ladies who died while their husband was President
Letitia Christian Tyler, Caroline Harrison, and Ellen Louise Wilson all passed away during their husband's administration.
Presidential couples who died during a single administration or term
* James and Elizabeth Kortright Monroe both died during Andrew Jackson's first term.
* Margaret Taylor died before Millard Fillmore finished her late husband Zachary's only term.
* Andrew and Eliza McCardle Johnson both died during Ulysses S. Grant's second term.
* Rutherford and Lucy Webb Hayes both died during Benjamin Harrison's only term.
* Florence Harding died before Calvin Coolidge finished her late husband Warren's only term.
* Richard and Pat Nixon both died during Bill Clinton's first term.
* Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman, though they had been divorced for more than 50 years, both died during George W. Bush's administration.
Most former First Ladies who died during a single Presidential administration
* Three former First Ladies died during Benjamin Harrison's administration as well as his wife Caroline Harrison. They were Lucy Webb Hayes, Julia Gardiner Tyler, and Sarah Childress Polk.
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