Years

First Lady

Birth state

1836

Hannah Este Burnet

New Jersey

1836-1838; 1841-1844

Margaret Lea Houston

Tennessee

1844-1846

Mary Smith McCray Jones

Arkansas

1846-1847

Frances Cox Henderson

Pennsylvania

1847-1849

Martha Evans Gindrat Wood

Georgia

1853-1857

Lucadia Niles Pease

Connecticut

1861

Melissa Evans Clark

Tennessee

1861-1863

Adele Baron Lubbock

Louisiana

1863-1865

Sue Ellen Taylor Murrah

Texas

1865-1866

Mary Jane Bowen Hamilton

Alabama

1866-1867

Annie Rattan Throckmorton

Illinois

1870-1874

Anne Elizabeth Britton Davis

Arkansas

1874-1876

Mary Evans Horne Coke

Georgia

1876-1879

Jane Roberts Hubbard

Georgia

1879-1883

Frances Edwards Roberts

South Carolina

1883-1887

Anne Maria Penn Ireland

Virginia

1887-1891

Elizabeth Dorothy Tinsley Ross

Georgia

1891-1895

Sarah Ann Stinson Hogg

Texas

1895-1899

Sallie Harrison Culberson

Texas

1899-1903

Orline Walton Sayers

Mississippi

1903-1907

Sarah Beona Meng Lanham

South Carolina

1907-1911

Fannie Irene Bruner Campbell

Mississippi

1911-1915

Alice Fuller Murrell Colquit

Louisiana

1915-1917

Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson

Texas

1917-1921

Willie Chapman Cooper Hobby

Texas

1921-1925

Myrtle Mainer Neff

Texas

1927-1931

Mildred Paxton Moody

Texas

1931-1933

Maud Abbie Gage Sterling

Illinois

1935-1939

Joe Betsy Miller Allred

Oklahoma

1939-1941

Merle Estelle Butcher O’Daniel

Texas

1941-1947

Blanch Fay Wright Stevenson

Texas

1947-1949

Mabel Buchanan Jester

Arkansas

1949-1957

Marialice Shary Shivers

Texas

1957-1963

Jean Houston Baldwin Daniel

Texas

1963-1969

Idanelle Brill Connally

Texas

1969-1973

Ima Smith Smith

Texas

1973-1979

Betty Jane Slaughter Briscoe

Texas

1979-1983

Rita Crocker Clements

Kansas

1983-1987

Linda Gale Thomson White

Texas

1995-2000

Laura Welch Bush

Texas

2000-2014

Sources

Book, “First Ladies of Texas,” by Mary Farrell and Elizabeth Silverthorne, Stillhouse Hollow Publishers, 1976, accessed in the Legislative Reference Library of Texas, Dec. 4, 2014

Article, “Rita Crocker Clements Biographical Sketch,” Cushing Memorial Library online, Texas A&M University (accessed Dec. 11, 2014)

Article, “Linda Gale White,” Dress collection, Texas Woman’s University (accessed Dec. 11, 2014)

Article, “Laura Welch Bush,” Our First Ladies, The White House (accessed Dec. 11, 2014)

Article, “Anita Perry, First Lady of Texas,” RickPerry.org (accessed Dec. 11, 2014)

Researcher: Dylan Baddour, Austin American-Statesman, December 2014

Anita Thigpen Perry

Texas