US First Ladies' Original Jobs
Channel: Henry A. Wallace
Date: 2022-01-09

In 2021, First Lady Jill Biden became the first spouse of a US president to keep their day job. She currently works as an English professor at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has been teaching since 2009. However, other first ladies also have had interesting careers before moving to the White House. Abigail Fillmore was the first spouse of a US president to keep a job after marriage, and 11 other first ladies in this video had the same job as her before living in the White House.

0:00 Intro
0:09 Abigail Fillmore
0:16 Eliza Johnson
0:23 Lucretia Garfield
0:30 Caroline Harrison
0:37 Ida McKinley
0:44 Helen Taft
0:51 Ellen Wilson
0:58 Florence Harding
1:05 Grace Coolidge
1:12 Lou Hoover
1:19 Eleanor Roosevelt
1:26 Bess Truman
1:33 Jackie Kennedy Onassis
1:40 Lady Bird Johnson
1:47 Pat Nixon
1:54 Betty Ford
2:01 Rosalynn Carter
2:08 Nancy Reagan
2:15 Barbara Bush
2:22 Hillary Clinton
2:29 Laura Bush
2:36 Michelle Obama
2:43 Melania Trump
2:50 Dr. Jill Biden
2:57 Credits