Nellie Taft

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Written By Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

FIRST LADY TO WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT // #27

  • Spent time in the White House as a teenager (her dad was friends with President Rutherford B. Hayes) and it was life-changing

  • Determined only to marry someone “destined to be President of the United States”

  • Taft wanted her to be his “senior partner”

  • Suffered a terrible stroke a couple of months into his term; had to take a year off from First Lady duties

  • She banned facial hair for everyone working in the White House… with one exception

Nellie Taft
Heather Rogers, presidential doodler

I’ve read at least one book about every U.S. president, never tire of shoehorning presidential trivia into conversations, and am basically an expert at hiding mistakes in my sketchbooks.

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