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Sarah Yorke Jackson

1803 - 1887

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Sarah Jackson (née Yorke; July 1805 – August 23, 1887) was an American woman who was the White House hostess and acting first lady of the United States from November 26, 1834, to March 4, 1837. She served in this role as the daughter-in-law of U.S. president Andrew Jackson after marrying his adopted son, Andrew Jackson Jr. She had initially been named as mistress of the Jackson residence in Tennessee, the Hermitage, but she moved to the White House and became co-hostess with Emily Donelson after the Hermitage was damaged in a fire. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sarah Yorke Jackson has received more than 305,822 page views. Her biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 24 in 2019). Sarah Yorke Jackson is the 765th most popular companion (down from 730th in 2019), the 8,087th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,900th in 2019) and the 15th most popular American Companion.

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  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.17

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 765 out of 784. Before her are Agnes of the Palatinate, Christina Hvide, Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Suthida, Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, and Eanflæd. After her are Rana Hussein, Eadgifu of Kent, Princess Marie of Baden, Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Euphemia de Ross, and Nonia Celsa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 70. Before her are José María Heredia y Heredia, Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Heinrich Ewald, George Borrow, Friedrich Ludwig Persius, and Juan Bravo Murillo. After her are James Challis, Karl Schorn, Carl Jacob Löwig, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, Jules d'Anethan, and Jacob Abbott. Among people deceased in 1887, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 53. Before her are E. Marlitt, John Taylor, August W. Eichler, Dorothea Dix, Spencer Fullerton Baird, and José Rufino Echenique. After her are Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, August Spies, Semyon Nadson, Henry Ward Beecher, Joachim IV of Constantinople, and Albert Parsons.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 8,087 out of 20,380. Before her are Sara Gilbert (1975), Albert W. Hull (1880), Lori Petty (1963), Jeffrey Eugenides (1960), John Torrey (1796), and Peggy Wood (1892). After her are Grace Park (1974), Story Musgrave (1935), Laura Poitras (1964), David Koepp (1963), Elizabeth Holmes (1984), and Marge Champion (1919).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 15. Before her are Pat Nixon (1912), Abigail Adams (1744), Neilia Hunter Biden (1942), Ellen Axson Wilson (1860), Martha Jefferson (1748), and Rachel Jackson (1767). After her are Karen Pence (1957), Happy Rockefeller (1926), and Ann Romney (1949).

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