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Mary Todd Lincoln

1818 - 1882

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Mary Ann Todd Lincoln (née Todd; December 13, 1818 – July 16, 1882) was First Lady of the United States from 1861 until the assassination of her husband, President Abraham Lincoln, in 1865. Mary Todd was born into a large and wealthy slave-owning family in Kentucky, although Mary never owned slaves and in her adulthood came to oppose slavery. Well educated, after finishing-school in her late teens, she moved to Springfield, the capital of Illinois. She lived there with her married sister Elizabeth Todd Edwards, the wife of an Illinois congressman. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mary Todd Lincoln is the 362nd most popular companion (down from 296th in 2019), the 1,835th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,254th in 2019) and the 11th most popular American Companion.

Mary Todd Lincoln is most famous for being the wife of Abraham Lincoln.

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Among companions, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 362 out of 784. Before her are Mercedes of Orléans, Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, Landgravine Marie Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Anne Hyde, Rogneda of Polotsk, and Galeria Valeria. After her are Barbara Blomberg, Dorothea of Saxe-Lauenburg, Nur Jahan, Maria of Antioch, Amestris, and Charles I, Duke of Bourbon.

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Among people born in 1818, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 30. Before her are Zachris Topelius, François d'Orléans, Prince of Joinville, Benjamin Butler, Thomas Mayne Reid, Amalia of Oldenburg, and Frederick Douglass. After her are Emperor Norton, Francesco Crispi, Emil du Bois-Reymond, Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen, Ernest II, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Richard Jordan Gatling. Among people deceased in 1882, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 25. Before her are Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Karl-Maria Kertbeny, Friedrich Reinhold Kreutzwald, Sergey Nechayev, Ignacy Łukasiewicz, and Richard Henry Dana Jr.. After her are Pierre Guillaume Frédéric le Play, Ewelina Hańska, Jørgen Moe, Henry Draper, Mikhail Skobelev, and Henri Giffard.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 1,835 out of 20,380. Before her are Minoru Yamasaki (1912), Teri Hatcher (1964), Larry Flynt (1942), Henry Rollins (1961), Nick Adams (1931), and Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840). After her are David Scott (1932), David Zucker (1947), Richard Lynch (1940), Bubba Smith (1945), Elisabeth Shue (1963), and Peter Weller (1947).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Mary Todd Lincoln ranks 11. Before her are Rosalynn Carter (1927), Martha Washington (1731), Linda McCartney (1941), Mamie Eisenhower (1896), Pat Nixon (1912), and Abigail Adams (1744). After her are Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), Rachel Jackson (1767), Sarah Yorke Jackson (1803), Martha Jefferson (1748), Karen Pence (1957), and Happy Rockefeller (1926).

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