First Family of the United States

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Portrait
Administration
Years
President and First Lady Children and family
Notes

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cells: Trump
January 20, 2017 — present
Donald and Melania Trump Barron
Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric are the President's children from his first marriage to Ivana Trump, while Tiffany is his daughter from his second marriage to Marla Maples and Barron is his son from his third marriage to Melania Trump. Barron is the first Presidential son to live at the White House since John F. Kennedy Jr. in 1963; however from January to June 2017 he remained with his mother at Trump Tower so he could complete his school year at Manhattan's Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School.[1] Melania Trump is the second First Lady to be foreign-born after Louisa Adams and the first to be a naturalized citizen.
cells: Obama
January 20, 2009 — January 20, 2017
Barack and Michelle Obama Malia and Sasha
Marian Shields Robinson, mother to the First Lady and mother-in-law to the President, lived with the First Family in the Executive Residence at the White House Complex. They were the first African American family to live in the White House.
cells: G.W. Bush
January 20, 2001 — January 20, 2009
George W. and Laura Bush Barbara and Jenna
Barbara and Jenna, fraternal twins, were also the nation's First Granddaughters, from January 20, 1989 to January 20, 1993. Barbara and Jenna were seven years old at the time of George H. W. Bush, their grandfather's, inauguration and eleven years old when he left office. The twins were both First Daughters of Texas from 1995, when they were thirteen, to 2001, when they were nineteen. Barbara and Jenna did not live in the White house, as both attended college while their father was the President. Jenna married Henry Chase Hager at the Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas on May 10, 2008.[2]
cells: Clinton
January 20, 1993 — January 20, 2001
Bill and Hillary Clinton Chelsea
The President and First Lady's daughter Chelsea was born a First Daughter of Arkansas. Until she left the White House in 2001, the two-year period between her father's first and second terms as the Governor of Arkansas would be the only time when she did not have an unofficial title. Beginning on January 3, 2001, Hillary Rodham Clinton was both a United States Senator for the state of New York while simultaneously carrying out her formal duties as First Lady, a title which she lost 17 days later on January 20, 2001 when President Clinton's term in office expired. Hillary was also the first woman to be nominated by a major U.S. political party in the presidential election.
cells: G.H.W. Bush
January 20, 1989 — January 20, 1993
George and Barbara Bush George W., Jeb, Neil, Marvin, and Dorothy
The President and First Lady's eldest daughter, Robin, died of leukemia in 1953. Arguably, other members of the First Family included, First Mother/Grandmother, Dorothy Wear Walker Bush (died in 1992), First Grandsons George, Jebby, Pierce, and Samuel LeBlond; and First Granddaughters Barbara, Jenna, Noelle, Lauren, Ashley, and Ellie LeBlond[2]
cells: Reagan
January 20, 1981 — January 20, 1989
Ronald and Nancy Reagan Maureen, Michael, Patti, and Ron
Maureen and Michael were two of the President's children from his first marriage to Hollywood actress Jane Wyman while Patti and Ron were the President's two youngest children from his second marriage to Nancy Reagan.
cells: Carter
January 20, 1977 — January 20, 1981
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter John, James Earl Carter III, Donnel, and Amy
The President and First Lady's three sons John, James, and Donnel were all grown adults when the First Family moved into the Executive Residence in 1977. Their daughter Amy was the first true child to live in the White House since the Kennedy children lived there between 1961 and 1963.
cells: Ford
August 9, 1974 — January 20, 1977
Gerald and Betty Ford Susan, Michael, Jack, and Steven
The President and First Lady's daughter Susan was a teenage high school student during her time in the White House. Their three sons Michael, Jack, and Steven were all grown adults when the First Family moved into the Executive Residence in 1974.
cells: Nixon
January 20, 1969 — August 9, 1974
Richard and Pat Nixon Tricia and Julie
One of the most thrilling occurrences during the President's administration was the marriage of his daughter Tricia to Edward Cox, who were wed in a fairytale ceremony in the Rose Garden of the White House on June 12, 1971. The President and First Lady's other daughter, Julie Nixon Eisenhower, married David Eisenhower, a grandson of Dwight D. Eisenhower.
cells: L.B. Johnson
November 22, 1963 — January 20, 1969
Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson Lynda Bird, and Luci
The President and First Lady's oldest daughter Lynda married Charles S. Robb, a former Governor of Virginia and two-term senator from the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the East Room at the White House on December 9, 1967.
cells: Kennedy
January 20, 1961 — November 22, 1963
John and Jacqueline Kennedy Caroline, John Jr., and Patrick
The President and First Lady's first-born daughter, Arabella, was delivered as a stillborn in 1956. The First Lady gave birth prematurely to a second son, Patrick Bouvier Kennedy, on August 7, 1963. The child died two days later due to hyaline membrane disease. In 1999, John Jr. died in a plane crash, leaving his sister Caroline as the only surviving child of the President and First Lady.
cells: Eisenhower
January 20, 1953 — January 20, 1961
Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower John
President and Mrs. Eisenhower posed for this portrait on their 39th wedding anniversary at their farm in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The President and First Lady's eldest son, Doud, died of scarlet fever in 1921. The President's only surviving son, John Eisenhower served various roles as an Assistant Staff Secretary in the West Wing, on the Army's General Staff, and in the White House as assistant to General Andrew Goodpaster.
cells: Truman
April 12, 1945 — January 20, 1953
Harry and Bess Truman Margaret
Between the years 1948 and 1952, the First Family resided at Blair House, the official guest quarters of foreign heads of state and government located near Lafayette Park, while the White House underwent a complete interior restoration.
cells: F.D. Roosevelt
March 4, 1933 — April 12, 1945
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Anna, James, Elliott, Franklin Jr., and John
In 1937, the President's oldest son James moved into the Executive Residence and served as an advisor and private secretary in the West Wing. At the President's request, his daughter Anna moved into the Executive Residence in 1944 to serve as an assistant to the President and as White House hostess during the First Lady's frequent absences. A fifth son, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jr. (III), was born on March 18, 1909 and died approximately eight months later on November 7, 1909.[3]
cells: Hoover
March 4, 1929 — March 4, 1933
Herbert and Lou Henry Hoover Herbert Jr., and Allan
cells: Coolidge
August 2, 1923 — March 4, 1929
Calvin and Grace Coolidge John and Calvin Jr.
The President and First Lady's younger son, Calvin Jr., died during the President's 1924 election campaign. Their son John who lived until 2000, married the daughter of Connecticut governor John H. Trumbull.
cells: Harding
March 4, 1921 — August 2, 1923
Warren and Florence Harding
The President never had children with his wife but had an illegitimate daughter, Elizabeth Ann Blaesing, with another woman, Nan Britton. In a previous marriage, the First Lady had a son named Marshall Eugene DeWolfe who died from complications of alcoholism and tuberculosis on January 1, 1915, at the age of 34.
cells: Wilson
March 4, 1913 — March 4, 1921
Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Wilson (d.1914), Edith Wilson (m.1915) Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor
On November 25, 1913, the second oldest daughter Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre at the White House. On January 17, 1915, Jessie gave birth to a son, Francis B. Sayre, Jr., at the White House. On May 7, 1914, the youngest daughter Eleanor married her father's Secretary of the Treasury, William Gibbs McAdoo. There were two First Ladies during the Wilson Administration. The President's first wife, Ellen, died at the White House on August 6, 1914 due to complications of Bright's disease. The following year, the President married his second wife, Edith. At the time of her mother's death in 1914, the oldest daughter Margaret served the role as First Lady until her father remarried in 1915.
cells: Taft
March 4, 1909 — March 4, 1913
William Howard and Helen Taft Robert, Helen, and Charles II
After the First Lady suffered a stroke in 1909, daughter Helen moved into the Executive Residence and helped her mother to regain body movement and speech. The President and First Lady's daughter, Helen, also served as official hostess for many White House functions while the First Lady was disabled. The youngest son, Charles, was only 12 years old when he moved into the Executive Residence, upon his father's election as President.
cells: T. Roosevelt
September 14, 1901 — March 4, 1909
Theodore and Edith Roosevelt Theodore Jr., Kermit, Ethel, Archie, and Quentin
In 1906, the President's oldest daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, married Nicholas Longworth at the White House. Alice was another child from the President's previous marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, who died in 1884 due to childbirth complications and the disease known as Bright's disease. The President's fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, would become the 32nd President of the United States in 1933.[3]
cells: McKinley
March 4, 1897 — September 14, 1901
William and Ida McKinley
cells: Cleveland
March 4, 1893 — March 4, 1897
Grover and Frances Cleveland Ruth, Esther and Marion
Esther Cleveland was born in 1893, she was the first and only child of a president to be born in the White House.
cells: B. Harrison
March 4, 1889 — March 4, 1893
Benjamin and Caroline Harrison Russell and Mary
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cells: Cleveland
March 4, 1885 — March 4, 1889
Grover and Frances Cleveland (m.1886)
Frances Cleveland was the youngest of the first ladies. She and Cleveland married on June 2, 1886, when she was 21 years old. When she and Cleveland departed the White House, she told the staff 'take careof everything as we would like to see it just the way it is when we return, four years from today'.
cells: Arthur
September 19, 1881 — March 4, 1885
Chester A. Arthur Chester II and Ellen
cells: Garfield
March 4, 1881 — September 19, 1881
James and Lucretia Garfield Harry, James, Mary, Irvin, and Abram
cells: Hayes
March 4, 1877 — March 4, 1881
Rutherford and Lucy Hayes Birchard, Webb, Rutherford, Fanny, and Scott
cells: Grant
March 4, 1869 — March 4, 1877
Ulysses and Julia Grant Jesse, Ulysses Jr., Nellie, and Frederick
The Grant family was the last slave holding family to live in the White House. Grant owned a slave during the Civil War but freed the slave soon after.
cells: A. Johnson
April 15, 1865 — March 4, 1869
Andrew and Eliza Johnson Martha, Mary, Robert, and Andrew Jr.
cells: Lincoln
March 4, 1861 — April 15, 1865
Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln Robert Todd, Willie, and Tad
In 1862, Willie, after riding his pony in bad weather, became ill. His condition fluctuated from day to day. The most likely cause of the illness was typhoid fever, contracted from contaminated drinking water. Gradually Willie weakened. Finally on February 20, 1862, the young boy died. The President and First Lady's second son, Edward, died earlier in 1850, most likely from a wasting disease called medullary thyroid cancer as part of the genetic cancer syndrome - multiple endocrine neoplasia, type 2B - that his father and two of his brothers may have shared. In 1871, their son Tad died at the age of 18 due to tuberculosis. Of the President and First Lady's four children, only Robert lived into adulthood; he died in 1926. Throughout the President's term in office, the First Lady suffered from severe headaches. Dealing with the death of her son Willie in 1862, as well as the deaths of siblings killed in the American Civil War, difficult bouts of mourning, especially after Willie's death, led to protracted depression. During her years at the White House, the First Lady suffered a severe head injury in a carriage accident, thought to be an assassination attempt aimed at the President, who was not with her at the time. In addition to depression, the First Lady suffered from irrational, sometimes public outbursts.
cells: Buchanan
March 4, 1857 — March 4, 1861
James Buchanan
The President never married or had children. The President's niece, Harriet Lane, acted as First Lady and served as hostess at White House functions.
cells: Pierce
March 4, 1853 — March 4, 1857
Franklin and Jane Pierce
Pierce's son Benjamin was killed in a train wreck two months before Pierce's inauguration. Jane Pierce arrived at the White house months later and spent most of their tenure in her room, writing letters to her dead son.
cells: Fillmore
July 9, 1850 — March 4, 1853
Millard and Abigail Fillmore Millard, and Mary
During the presidential inauguration for her husband's successor Franklin Pierce in 1853, the First Lady caught a cold and the next day came down with a fever. Abigail Fillmore developed pneumonia and died weeks later, on March 30, 1853. Throughout much of the President's term in office and due to the First Lady's illness, their daughter Mary was hostess at many White House functions from 1850 to 1853.
cells: Taylor
March 4, 1849 — July 9, 1850
Zachary and Margaret Taylor Ann, Betty, and Richard
As a semi-invalid, the First Lady became a recluse and remained in seclusion on the second floor of the Executive Residence, leaving the duties of official hostess to her daughter Mary Elizabeth. They were the last family to own slaves in the White House from 1849 to 1850.
cells: Polk
March 4, 1845 — March 4, 1849
James and Sarah Polk
The President and First Lady never had children.
cells: Tyler
April 4, 1841 — March 4, 1845
John and Letitia Tyler (d.1842), Julia Tyler (m.1844) Mary, Robert, John, Letitia, Elizabeth, Alice, and Tazewell
During the President's term in office, there were two First Ladies. In 1839, Letitia, suffered a paralytic stroke that left her an invalid. As First Lady, she remained in the upstairs living quarters of the White House only coming downstairs just once, to attend the wedding of her daughter Elizabeth in January 1842. On the evening of September 10, 1842, the First Lady died peacefully. At the time of her death, she was 51 years old, making her the youngest First Lady to die. John and Letita Tyler's children were the following: Mary Tyler-Jones, Robert Tyler (who served as the President's private secretary at the White House), John Tyler III, Letitia Tyler-Semple, Elizabeth Tyler-Waller (marrying William N. Waller at a White House wedding in 1842), Alice Tyler-Denison, and Tazewell Tyler. The second First Lady was Julia, who at age 24, married the President at the age of 54 on June 26, 1844. John and Julia's children were the following: David Gardiner Tyler, John "Alex" Alexander Tyler, Julia Gardiner Tyler-Spencer, Lachlan Gardiner Tyler, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Robert "Fitz" Fitzwalter Tyler, and Pearl Tyler-Ellis. Two of his grandchildren are still alive.
cells: W.H. Harrison
March 4, 1841 — April 4, 1841
William Henry and Anna Harrison
The President and First Lady had ten children. After taking the Oath of Office in March 1841, the President died just 32 days later of complications of a cold, making William Henry Harrison's term the shortest in United States presidential history to date.[4]
cells: Van Buren
March 4, 1837 — March 4, 1841
Martin Van Buren and Angelica Singleton (Daughter-in-law) Abraham, John, Martin, and Smith
During the President's term, there was no First Lady. The President's wife died from tuberculosis much earlier in 1819. Their oldest son Abraham had a wife, Angelica Singleton Van Buren (a cousin of Dolley Madison), who assumed the duties being hostess at White House functions.
cells: Jackson
March 4, 1829 — March 4, 1837
Andrew Jackson Andrew Jr., Daniel, Andrew, Andrew, Eliza, and Edward
Jackson's wife Rachel died shortly after he was elected president. Their niece, Emily Donelson and the President's daughter-in-law Sarah Yorke Jackson served at his hostess at the White house.
cells: J.Q. Adams
March 4, 1825 — March 4, 1829
John Quincy and Louisa Adams George, John, and Charles Francis
The President was the oldest son of the 2nd President of the United States, John Adams and his wife, Abigail Adams. The President and First Lady's son, George led a troubled life of alcoholism, womanizing, and depression who finally succumbed to an apparent suicide during the President's final year in office in 1829. Louisa Adams was the first foreign-born First Lady.
cells: Monroe
March 4, 1817 — March 4, 1825
James and Elizabeth Monroe Eliza and Maria
During the President's term in office, his oldest daughter Eliza often substituted as official White House hostess for her ailing mother, the First Lady. Appearing as a haughty and often pompous socialite, Eliza soon alienated most of Washington society for her refusal to call on wives of the diplomatic corps, as was the custom. She caused another uproar when she closed her sister's wedding to all but family and friends. The second daughter named Maria was only a child when her father was elected president. When she finished school in Philadelphia, she moved into the Executive Residence in 1819. On March 9, 1820, she married her first cousin, Samuel L. Gouverneur, in the first wedding ever performed at the White House. The President and First Lady's only son, James, died much earlier in childhood.
cells: Madison
March 4, 1809 — March 4, 1817
James and Dolley Madison John
Prior to becoming First Lady and marrying the President, Dolley Madison was a widow who had two children, John Payne Todd and William Temple Todd, from a previous marriage to Quaker lawyer John Todd. Her husband and youngest son both suddenly died when yellow fever struck Philadelphia in 1793. The following year, she accepted Madison's proposal of marriage. Madison adopted her oldest son John. Perhaps Dolley Madison's most courageous act as First Lady was when she removed and saved several priceless valuables, objets d'art, china, silverware, and the famous Lansdowne portrait of George Washington painted by Gilbert Stuart prior to British Redcoats burning down the White House during the War of 1812.
cells: Jefferson
March 4, 1801 — March 4, 1809
Thomas Jefferson and Martha Randolph (Daughter) Mary
There was no First Lady during the Presidency as Jefferson's former wife, Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson, died shortly after giving birth to their sixth child in 1782. In the conspicuous absence of First Lady, James Madison's wife, Dolley Madison, often served in the capacity as a White House hostess. Out of all six children of the Jefferson's, only Martha and Mary would survive into early adulthood.
cells: J. Adams
March 4, 1797 — March 4, 1801
John and Abigail Adams Nabby, John Quincy, Charles and Thomas
The First Family during the Adams administration was the first to reside in the newly constructed White House (then known as the President's House) designed by Irish architect James Hoban. In 1797, the President appointed his oldest son, John Quincy, as Minister to Prussia. In 1800, the President and First Lady's second oldest son Charles, died due to complications of alcoholism. Following in his father's footsteps, John Quincy would eventually be elected to the Presidency in 1824 and take the oath of office the next year.
cells: Washington
April 30, 1789 — March 4, 1797
George and Martha Washington Nelly and George
Since the Federal City was not completed when the President was inaugurated in 1789, the capital of the United States was first located in New York City between the years 1785 and 1790, later uprooting the Federal Government and moving it temporarily to the city of Philadelphia between the years 1790 and 1800. Because of this, the First Family never lived in the unfinished White House. Between April 1789 and February 1790, the First Family resided at the Alexander Macomb mansion at 39–41 Broadway Avenue in New York City. In Philadelphia, Robert Morris's mansion at 190 High Street was rented for the First Family to reside at. During his lifetime, the President never had children. However, he adopted the First Lady's two children, Jack and Patsy, from a previous marriage to Daniel Parke Custis. Likewise, the President also raised the First Lady's two youngest grandchildren, Nelly and George.

Questions about this table:
originalText: who was the first president to call his residence the white house
answer: answerTexts: J. Adams