A 1965 oil portrait of Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson by artist George Geygan, based on contemporary descriptions of her physical attributes and executed 183 years after her death. (First Ladies Cookbook, Parents Press)
Martha Wayles Skelton Jefferson was the wife of Thomas Jefferson. She died in 1782, nineteen years before he was elected President of the United States. She is the first of five women who were married to men who would ascend to the presidency after their deaths.
