Science Source Stock Photo - Lucy Hayes, First Lady

Lucy Hayes, First Lady

Description: Lucy Ware Webb Hayes (August 28, 1831 - June 25, 1889) was a First Lady and the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes. She enrolled at Wesleyan Women's College, class of 1850; she was the first first lady to have graduated from college and was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Rutherford was by this time practicing law in Cincinnati, and the two began dating seriously. He proposed in June 1851 and they married in 1852. A vigorous opponent of slavery, she contributed to her husband's decision to abandon the Whigs for the antislavery Republican Party. As First Lady, Hayes brought her zeal to the White House and supported her husband's ban of alcoholic beverages at state functions. Historians have christened her "Lemonade Lucy" due to her staunch support of the temperance movement; however, contrary to popular belief, she was never referred to by that nickname while living, and it was her husband who banned alcohol from the White House. She also instituted the custom of conducting an Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. She died of a stroke in 1889 at the age of 57.

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New York Public Library/Science Source

Unique identifier: SS2429770

Legacy Identifier: BR6585

Type: Image

Size: 2596px × 3547px (~26 MB)

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