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Julia Gardiner Tyler
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Birthdate
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05/04/1820
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Death date
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07/10/1889
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President
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John Tyler
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Dates of service
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06/24/1844-04/04/1845
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Relationship to president
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Spouse
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Other marriages
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N/A
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Websites
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First Ladies National Library Biography of Julia Tyler
White House Historical Association: Julia Tyler
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Papers/letters collections
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Julia Tyler Manuscripts
Library of Congress John Tyler Papers
The Gardiner-Tyler Family Papers at Yale University
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Historical sites
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Julia Tyler Gravesite
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Fascinating details
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- John Tyler’s first wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, served as first lady until she passed away in the White House in 1842.
- She is the first ‘first lady’ to marry a president during his term in the White House. Julia married John Tyler while he was an incumbent one-term president and thus did not experience his campaign or inauguration.
- She is credited with changing public presidential ceremony to secure the safety and security of the president, as well as initiating the custom of greeting the president with “Hail to the Chief.”
- She promoted the president’s proposed annexation of Texas by sitting in on Capitol debates and distributing copies of her husband’s joint-resolution annexation.
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