First ladies and gentlemen of New York
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First Gentleman of New York | |
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since August 24, 2021 | |
Style | First Lady First Gentleman |
Residence | New York Executive Mansion |
Inaugural holder | Cornelia Clinton |
Formation | 1777 |
Website | www |
The first ladies and gentlemen of New York is the title held by the host or hostess of the New York Executive Mansion, usually the spouse or partner of the governor of New York, concurrent with the governor's term in office. The inaugural first lady of New York was Cornelia Clinton (née Tappen), the wife of the first governor of New York, George Clinton.[1]
List
[edit]The following is an incomplete list of first ladies and gentlemen of New York.
- Cornelia Clinton (1777–1795)
- Sarah Livingston Jay (1795–1801)
- Gertrude Lewis (1804–1807)
- Hannah Tompkins (1807–1817)
- Margarita Tayler (1817)
- Maria Clinton (1817–1818)
- Catharine Clinton (1819–1823, 1825–1827)
- Evelina Throop (1829–1832)
- Cornelia Marcy (1833–1839)
- Frances Adeline Seward (1839–1843)
- Catherine Bouck (1843–1845)
- Clarissa Wright (1845–1847)
- Ellen Young (1847–1849)
- Julia Fish (1849–1851)
- Mary Seymour (1853–1855, 1863–1865)
- Zilpha Clark (1855–1857)
- Mary King (1857–1859)
- Eliza Morgan (1859–1863)
- Elizabeth Fenton (1865–1869)
- Catherine Dix (1873–1875)
- Ellen Augusta Cornell (1880–1883)
- Anna Morton (1895–1897)
- Lois Black (1897–1898)
- Edith Roosevelt (1899–1901)
- Linda Odell (1901–1904)
- Kate Higgins (1905–1907)
- Antoinette Hughes (1907–1910)
- Gertrude Dix (1911–1913)
- Clara Sulzer (1913)
- Mary Glynn (1913–1914)
- Olive Whitman (1915–1919)
- Catherine Smith (1919–1920, 1923–1928)
- Elizabeth Miller (1921–1922)
- Eleanor Roosevelt (1929–1932)
- Edith Lehman (1933–1942)
- Jean Poletti (1942)
- Frances Dewey (1943–1954)
- Marie Norton Harriman (1955–1958)
- Mary Rockefeller (1959–1962)
- Happy Rockefeller (1963–1973)
- Katherine Wilson (1973–1974)
- Evangeline Carey (1981–1982)
- Matilda Cuomo (1983–1994)
- Libby Pataki (1995–2006)
- Silda Wall Spitzer (2007–2008)
- Michelle Paige Paterson (2008–2010)
- Sandra Lee (2011–2019), de facto, never married
- William J. Hochul Jr. (from 2021)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Sarah Cornelia Tappen Clinton". 15 February 2009.