POLITICIAN

Lucy Webb Hayes

1831 - 1889

Photo of Lucy Webb Hayes

Icon of person Lucy Webb Hayes

Lucy Ware Hayes (née Webb; August 28, 1831 – June 25, 1889) was the wife of President Rutherford B. Hayes and served as first lady of the United States from 1877 to 1881. Hayes was the first First Lady to have a college degree. She was also a more egalitarian hostess than previous First Ladies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lucy Webb Hayes has received more than 427,423 page views. Her biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Lucy Webb Hayes is the 14,858th most popular politician (down from 14,046th in 2019), the 7,237th most popular biography from United States (up from 7,249th in 2019) and the 469th most popular American Politician.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.07

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Lucy Webb Hayes ranks 14,858 out of 19,576Before her are Jakob Philipp Fallmerayer, José María de Achá, Álvaro Magaña, Princess Marie of Saxe-Altenburg, Lyudmila Pakhomova, and Saulius Skvernelis. After her are Bernard Binlin Dadié, Kálmán Széll, Roberto Suazo Córdova, Felix de Muelenaere, Haim Katz, and Adalbero of Styria.

Most Popular Politicians in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1831, Lucy Webb Hayes ranks 93Before her are Fran Levstik, Amelia Edwards, Fyodor Bredikhin, Ignatius L. Donnelly, Manuel Antônio de Almeida, and Álvares de Azevedo. After her are John Bell Hood, George Nares, Eduard von Martens, Peter Tait, Mariano Baptista, and Adolfo Ballivián. Among people deceased in 1889, Lucy Webb Hayes ranks 76Before her are Juan Montalvo, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Paul du Bois-Reymond, Warren De la Rue, Ivan Kukuljević Sakcinski, and Dmitry Tolstoy. After her are Francisco Antonino Vidal, Priscilla Cooper Tyler, Charles Mackay, Máximo Santos, Samuel Brannan, and Churchill Babington.

Others Born in 1831

Go to all Rankings

Others Deceased in 1889

Go to all Rankings

In United States

Among people born in United States, Lucy Webb Hayes ranks 7,237 out of 20,380Before her are John O'Hara (1905), Joseph Banks Rhine (1895), Charles S. Dutton (1951), Charli D'Amelio (2004), Luther Allison (1939), and Sonny Clark (1931). After her are Jamie Dimon (1956), Lawrence Weiner (1942), Martha Cooper (1943), Betty Davis (1945), Gerald Carr (1932), and Annie Easley (1933).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Lucy Webb Hayes ranks 469Before her are Larry O'Brien (1917), Lucien Carr (1925), Little Crow (1810), Richard H. Truly (1937), Harry Reid (1939), and Bob Menendez (1954). After her are Oliver Ellsworth (1745), William J. Casey (1913), Jane Pierce (1806), Nellie Tayloe Ross (1876), James Spriggs Payne (1819), and Ralph Metcalfe (1910).