page_title: Eliza McCardle Johnson
section_title: First Lady of the United States
hierarchical_section_title: Eliza McCardle Johnson / First Lady of the United States
caption_attribution_description: English: First Spouse Program gold coin for Eliza Johnson. Obverse.
context_page_description: Eliza Johnson was the First Lady of the United States, the Second Lady of the United States, and the wife of Andrew Johnson, the 17th President of the United States.
context_section_description: She supported her husband in his political career but had tried to avoid public appearances. During the American Civil War, Confederate authorities ordered her to evacuate her home in Greeneville; she took refuge in Nashville, Tennessee.
  A few months later after her husband became president, she joined him in the White House, but she was not able to serve as First Lady due to her poor health from tuberculosis. She remained confined to her bedroom there, leaving the social chores to her daughter Martha Johnson Patterson.  Mrs. Johnson appeared publicly as First Lady on only two occasions—at a reception for Queen Emma of the Kingdom of Hawaii on January 2, 1866, and at the President's 59th birthday party on December 29, 1867.
caption: 2011 U.S Gold Coin
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