1 - Martha Dandridge Custis Washington
3 - Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson
4 - Dolley Madison Payne Todd
5 - Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
6 - Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams
7 - Rachel Donelson Jackson
8 - Hannah Hoes Van Buran
9 - Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison
10 - Letitia Christian Tyler
11 - Julia Gardiner Tyler
12 - Sarah Childress Polk
13 - Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor
14 - Abigail Powers Fillmore
15 - Jane Means Appleton Pierce
18 - Eliza McCardle Johnson
20 - Lucy Ware Webb Hayes
21 - Lucretia Rudolph Garfield
22 - Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur
23 - Frances Folsom Cleveland
24 - Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison
25 - Frances Folsom Cleveland
27 - Edith Kermit Cardow Roosevelt
30 - Edith Bolling Galt WIlson
31 - Florence Kling Harding
32 - Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge
34 - Anna Eleanor Roosevelt
35 - Elizabeth Virginia Wallace Truman
36 - Mamie Geneva Doud Eisenhower
37 - Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy
38 - Claudia Taylor (Lady Bird) Johnson
40 - Elizabeth Bloomer Ford
41 - Rosalynn Smith Carter
44 - Hillary Rodham Clinton
The third picture is incorrect. That is not Thomas Jefferson’s wife, it is his daughter: Martha Jefferson Randolph. Even if I didn’t know that it wasn’t his wife, it is obvious from the hair/clothing that it couldn’t possibly be a woman painted before 1782 when Jefferson’s wife died.
Many first ladies were not actually wives but daughters or sisters, especially in the case of Jefferson and many other presidents who were unmarried or widowers. It was a position that could be filled by any female relative in order to provide the current president with their own social event planner.
Minor correction re: Richard Nixon’s wife. Although she was always called Pat, her actual first name was Thelma.