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EMILY DONELSON
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Emily Donelson
First Lady: (Mistress of the White House) 1829 to 1836
Niece of Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States
Bom: June 1,1807 Died: December 19,1836
Emily Donelson was Andrew Jackson's niece, and was bom on June 1, 1807 at Clover Bottom Farm in Donelson, Tennessee. She was the daughter of Rachel's brother John and Mary Donelson. At the age of seventeen, Emily married her first cousin, Major Andrew Jackson Donelson, was also served as President Jackson's private secretary. Together Emily and her husband raised four children.
When Andrew Jackson became President, he was still grieving the loss of his wife, Rachel Donelson Jackson, who had died suddenly while making the preparations for the trip to Washington. Rachel had been married first to Lewis Robards. This marriage did not last, and Lewis returned to his Kentucky home to get a divorce. Rachel, thinking she received a divorce, married her second husband, Andrew Jackson. Two years later she learned that Robards got the divorce after her second marriage, a plan he used to charge her with adultery. This caused a scandal, and fearing these charges, Rachel
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