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词条 Angelica Singleton Van Buren
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Marriage

     Post-Van Buren presidency 

  3. See also

  4. References

  5. External links

{{Infobox officeholder
|name = Sarah Angelica Singleton Van Buren
|image = Henry Inman - Angelica Singleton Van Buren (Mrs. Abraham Van Buren) - Google Art Project.jpg
|caption = Van Buren's White House Portrait (1840)
|office = First Lady of the United States
{{small|Acting}}
|president = Martin Van Buren
|term_start = November 27, 1838
|term_end = March 4, 1841
|term_label = In role
|predecessor = Sarah Jackson {{small|(Acting)}}
|successor = Anna Harrison
Jane Harrison {{small|(Acting)}}
|birth_name = Sarah Angelica Singleton
|birth_date = {{birth date|1818|2|13}}
|birth_place = {{nowrap|Wedgefield, South Carolina, U.S.}}
|death_date = {{death date and age|1877|12|29|1818|2|13}}
|death_place = New York City, U.S.
|alma_mater = Madame Grelaud's French School
|nationality = American
|spouse = {{marriage|Abraham Van Buren
|1838|1873|end=died}}
|signature = Presidents Angelica Van Buren signature.jpg
}}Sarah Angelica Van Buren (née Singleton; February 13, 1818 – December 29, 1877), was the daughter-in-law of the eighth United States President Martin Van Buren. She was married to the President's son, Abraham Van Buren. She assumed the post of First Lady because the president's wife, Hannah Van Buren, had died 17 years earlier and he remained unwed throughout the rest of his life. Although she was never married to a president, she is the youngest woman ever to act as the White House hostess.[1]

Early life

Sarah Angelica Singleton was born in Wedgefield, South Carolina, on February 13, 1818.[2] She was the fourth of six children born to Richard Singleton and his wife, Rebecca Travis Coles.[3]

Angelica was educated at the Columbia Female Academy in South Carolina and Madame Grelaud's French School in Philadelphia for 5 years.[3] She was a popular student at Madame Grelaud's and the school gave her the opportunity to meet a more diverse group of people.[3]

Marriage

In 1838, Angelica visited Washington, DC, with her sister.[3] Former First Lady Dolley Madison, a cousin of Sarah's mother Rebecca Travis Coles, decided to play matchmaker and introduced the Singleton girls to President Martin Van Buren's bachelor sons.[4] Eight months later, Angelica Singleton married Abraham Van Buren on November 27, 1838, on his 31st birthday in Wedgefield.[3] The marriage strengthened President Van Buren's ties to the Old South.[1]

Following the wedding, Van Buren assumed the duties of hostess at the White House with great success.[4]

In the spring of 1839, the couple took an extended trip through England (where her aunt, Sally Coles Stevenson, and uncle, Andrew Stevenson, was U.S. Minister the U.K.) and other European countries.[3][5] The trip was a massive success and when Van Buren returned to Washington, she hoped to bring some European style to the White House.[5] Angelica and other honored female guests began standing on a dais in the Blue Room to greet guests at the beginning of White House functions.[6] Although the French Ambassador enjoyed the reception, Americans did not.[3] The dais was soon removed.[5]

In March 1840, Angelica gave birth to the couple's first child, a daughter named Rebecca. Rebecca died a few months later.[4] After leaving the White House, the couple had four sons; the survivors were:[3]

  • Singleton Van Buren (1841–1885)
  • Martin Van Buren II (1844–1885)
  • Travis Coles Van Buren (1848–1889)

Post-Van Buren presidency

After Martin Van Buren was defeated for re-election in 1840, Angelica and her husband lived at the Van Buren home of Lindenwald, in Kinderhook (town), New York, wintering at her family home, Melrose House, in South Carolina. From 1848 until her death, she lived in New York City.[3]

See also

  • Singleton's Graveyard, her family's plantation cemetery near Wedgefield, South Carolina
{{commonscat|Angelica Van Buren}}

References

1. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77u4CwAAQBAJ&pg=PA139e|title=A Companion to First Ladies|last=Sibley|first=Katherine A. S.|date=2016-03-02|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=9781118732243|language=en}}
2. ^{{cite news|last1=Anthony|first1=Carl|title=First Ladies Never Married to Presidents: Angelica Van Buren|url=http://www.firstladies.org/blog/first-ladies-never-married-to-presidents-angelica-van-buren/|accessdate=1 February 2018|work=www.firstladies.org|date=September 27, 2014}}
3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KqeXCgAAQBAJ|title=America's First Ladies: A Historical Encyclopedia and Primary Document Collection of the Remarkable Women of the White House: A Historical Encyclopedia and Primary Document Collection of the Remarkable Women of the White House|last=Hendricks|first=Nancy|date=2015-10-13|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=9781610698832|language=en}}
4. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AzPd0aVnOl0C|title=All the Presidents' Children: Triumph and Tragedy in the Lives of America's First Families|last=Wead|first=Doug|date=2004-01-06|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=9780743446334|language=en}}
5. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DxSCBgAAQBAJ|title=First Ladies: Presidential Historians on the Lives of 45 Iconic American Women|last=Swain|first=Susan|last2=C-SPAN|date=2015-04-14|publisher=PublicAffairs|isbn=9781610395670|language=en}}
6. ^{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8e20o_p6cwgC|title=Life in the White House: A Social History of the First Family and the President's House|last=Watson|first=Robert P.|date=2012-02-01|publisher=SUNY Press|isbn=9780791485071|language=en}}
  • {{Cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=The Presidents of the United States, 1789–1914|author=James C. Welling|title=Martin Van Buren|editor=James Grant Wilson|year=1914}}

External links

  • Angelica Van Buren biography at American Presidents Blog
  • Angelica Singleton Van Buren Collection at University of South Carolina
  • [https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/7173291?search=true] Her Find a Grave burial memorial.
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