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Sarah Yorke Jackson

1803 - 1887

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Sarah Jackson (née Yorke; July 1805 – August 23, 1887) 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 272,312 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sarah Yorke Jackson is the 733rd most popular companion (down from 668th in 2019), the 7,915th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,425th in 2019) and the 14th most popular American Companion.

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  • 24

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  • 3.71

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Among COMPANIONS

Among companions, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 733 out of 673. Before her are Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece, Ælfthryth, wife of Edgar, Gloria, Princess of Thurn and Taxis, Nonia Celsa, Cynethryth, and Suthida. After her are Maud, Countess of Huntingdon, Maria, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, Sybilla of Normandy, Karen Pence, Rana Hussein, and Happy Rockefeller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1803, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 64. Before her are Gottfried Ludolf Camphausen, Sarah Childress Polk, Heinrich Ewald, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Johann Jakob Kaup, and Juan Bravo Murillo. After her are George Borrow, Domingo Nieto, James Challis, Manuel Felipe de Tovar, William Smith O'Brien, and Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet. Among people deceased in 1887, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 50. Before her are Peder Balke, August Spies, John Taylor, Spencer Fullerton Baird, Semyon Nadson, and George Alexander Macfarren. After her are José Rufino Echenique, August W. Eichler, Dorothea Dix, Elihu B. Washburne, Robert M. T. Hunter, and Daniel Manning.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 7,915 out of 18,182. Before her are Henry van Dyke Jr. (1852), Steve Swallow (1940), Mike Honda (1941), Henry Vestine (1944), Christopher Paolini (1983), and Gilda Radner (1946). After her are Leelee Sobieski (1983), Magic Slim (1937), John Rutledge (1739), Alison Lurie (1926), Jerry Falwell (1933), and Pat McCormick (1930).

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Among COMPANIONS In United States

Among companions born in United States, Sarah Yorke Jackson ranks 14. 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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