Did any US President outlive all his wives?

Question

(Tyler & Wilson's wives died and both remarried while in office.)

Answer 1

Yes, ten or eleven US Presidents outlived all spouses, depending if you count the one "bachelor" President.

1.John Adams
2.Thomas Jefferson
3.James Monroe
4.Andrew Jackson
5.Martin Van Buren
6.Franklin Pierce
7.James Buchanan (never married; outlived William R. King)
8.Rutherford B. Hayes
9.Chester A. Arthur
10.Herbert Hoover
11.Richard Nixon


Four US Presidents and First Ladies remain alive
Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter
Barbara and George H. W. Bush
Hillary and Bill Clinton
Laura and George W. Bush

Answer 2

Richard Nixon survived his wife, Pat. She died after Nixon was out of office.

Answer 3

I have to admit that when I saw this question in the list, I thought polygamy ruled at the White House!

Answer 4

I think Nixon outlived his wife.

Answer 5

First Wives
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John Adams --- He died on 7/4/1826, the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, at the age of 93. His wife Abigail Adams died on 10/28/1818 of typhoid fever.

Thomas Jefferson --- He died on 7/4/1826, the same day as John Adams to boot. His wife Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson died on 9/6/1782. She'd suffered from diabetes and possibly other illnesses throughout her life, so this is perhaps sadly not too surprising.

James Monroe --- He died on 7/4/1831 from heart failure & TB. Yet another Independence Day death! His wife Elizabeth Kortright Monroe died on 9/23/1830. She was another of the "sickly" First Ladies.

Andrew Jackson --- He died on 6/8/1845 of a number of factors including TB, dropsy & heart failure. His wife Rachel Donelson Robarbs Jackson died of a heart attack on 12/22/1828, perhaps contributed to by the election's stress and attacks on the Jacksons during the election due to the illigitamcy/adultry scandels of the day. Still a very controversal point in presidential election history.

Martin Van Buren --- He died on 7/24/1862 due to asthma & heart failure after a bad case of pneumonia. His wife Hannah Hoes Van Buren died on 2/5/1819 from TB related causes.

Franklin Pierce --- He died on 10/8/1869 from cirrhosis of the liver. His wife Jane Appleton Pierce died on 12/2/1863.

Rutherford B Hayes --- He died on 1/17/1893 of a heart attack. His wife Lucy Ware Webb Hayes died on 6/25/1889.

Chester A Arthur --- He died on 11/18/1886. His wife Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur died on 1/12/1880.

Herbert Hoover --- He died on 10/20/1964. His wife Lou Henry Hoover died on 1/7/1944 from a heart attack.

Richard Nixon --- He died on 4/22/1994 from stroke related causes. His wife Thelma "Pat" Catherine Ryan Nixon died on 6/22/1993 from lung cancer, though she had a number of other previous health problems including two strokes.





First Wives of Remarried Presidents
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John Tyler --- He died on 1/18/1862 of bronchitis & bilious fever. He technically outlived his first wife Letitia Christian Tyler, who died on 9/10/1842. She was the first president's wife to die in the White House.

Millard Fillmore --- He died on 3/8/1874 due to stroke related effects. His first wife Abigail Fillmore died on 3/30/1853 from pneumonia, probably complicated by previous illnesses.

Benjamin Harrison --- He died on 3/13/1901 from influenza & pneumonia. His first wife Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison died on 10/25/1892 from TB.

Theodore Roosevelt --- He died on 1/6/1919 of a coronary embolism. His first wife Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt died on 2/14/1884 from Bright's disease.

Woodrow Wilson --- He died on 2/3/1924. His first wife Ellen Louise Axson Wilson died on 8/6/1914 from Bright's disease.