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« on: May 08, 2023, 08:16:02 PM »

Who are they? I tried googling it and no luck there.
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« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2023, 08:39:27 PM »

Rosalynn Carter prolly wins this...possibly more for Edith Wilson or Frances Cleveland.
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« Reply #2 on: May 08, 2023, 09:27:03 PM »

I think here are the ones who had retirements longer than 40 years. Years in retirement in parentheses:

First ladies:
Frances Cleveland - 50 years (1897-1947)
Julia Gardiner Tyler - 44 years (1845-1889)
Rosalynn Carter - 42 years (1981-present)
Sarah Polk - 42 years (1849-1891)
Edith Wilson - 40 years (1821-1861)

Acting first ladies:
Sarah Yorke Jackson (Andrew Jackson's daughter-in-law) - 50 years (1837-1887)
Harriet Lane (James Buchanan's niece) - 42 years (1861-1903)
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« Reply #3 on: May 08, 2023, 10:16:13 PM »

Didn't Elizabeth Priscilla Tyler's retirement last for 45 years?
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« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2023, 05:25:31 AM »

I think here are the ones who had retirements longer than 40 years. Years in retirement in parentheses:

First ladies:
Frances Cleveland - 50 years (1897-1947)
Julia Gardiner Tyler - 44 years (1845-1889)
Rosalynn Carter - 42 years (1981-present)
Sarah Polk - 42 years (1849-1891)
Edith Wilson - 40 years (1821-1861)

Acting first ladies:
Sarah Yorke Jackson (Andrew Jackson's daughter-in-law) - 50 years (1837-1887)
Harriet Lane (James Buchanan's niece) - 42 years (1861-1903)


Notable that James K. Polk only had 3 months of retirement before dying of cholera.  Sarah never remarried.
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« Reply #5 on: May 09, 2023, 12:56:16 PM »

Not a First Lady, but someone very close to one.

Suzanne Perrin, the second wife of FDR, Jr., is still alive.  She's 102. 
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« Reply #6 on: May 09, 2023, 01:26:49 PM »

Also, if we counted the four years that seperated Cleveland's two terms, Frances would have a 54-year retirement.
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« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2023, 12:22:24 AM »

Also, Edith Wilson's retirement lasted from 1921 to 1961, not 1821 to 1861.
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« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2023, 02:18:05 AM »

Grover Cleveland married Frances while he was in the White House and she was twenty-one so I would have been shocked if she hadn't had the longest retirement.
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« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2023, 01:14:06 PM »

The shortest retirement was Abigail Fillmore, who died on March 30th 1853 only 26 days after her husband left office.
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« Reply #10 on: December 30, 2023, 03:14:16 PM »

Not a First Lady, but someone very close to one.

Suzanne Perrin, the second wife of FDR, Jr., is still alive.  She's 102. 

Actually she died in December 2022, aged 101.  Read her obit here. It's very much a walk through history to imagine someone this connected to FDR (or just an old-school NYC socialite) was still with us only a year ago.

I once gamed-out an Alt History where Dewey wins 1948, and the Dems nominate FDR Jr. to win back the White House in 1952.  He becomes a JFK-type figure, assassinated in 1955. Perrin was his young wife at the time, so ITTL her life after the White House would have totaled an astonishing 68 years (for comparison, Rosalyn Carter's was only 42.)   
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