Harriet Lane
Harriet Rebecca Lane (born May 9, 1830 in Mercersburg , Pennsylvania , † July 3, 1903 in Narragansett , Rhode Island ) was the niece of US President James Buchanan and, since Buchanan was unmarried, served as the US First Lady from 1857 until 1861. She was the namesake of a gunboat of the Union in the American Civil War , which was destroyed in 1862 off Galveston (Texas).
Harriet Lane was the youngest child of Elliott Tole Lane and Jane Buchanan Lane. The latter died when Lane was nine years old, the father died two years later.
She was buried in Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore , Maryland .
literature
- Thomas J. Balcerski: Harriet Rebecca Lande Johnston. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 197-213.
Web links
Commons : Harriet Lane - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Biography on the White House website
- Harriet Lane in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
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| SURNAME | Lane, Harriet |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lane, Harriet Rebecca (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American first lady |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 9, 1830 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mercersburg , Pennsylvania |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 3, 1903 |
| Place of death | Narragansett , Rhode Island |