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   10/31/08

   RenalFailure

   James Buchanan's wife... oh wait, he was a bachelor. Never mind.

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   10/31/08

   drjay1966

   Abigail Adams and Eleanor Roosevelt are definitely at the front of the pack: wives of hugely important presidents (though Adams was more important before he was president) who were probably smarter and more visionary (particularly in terms of slavery/segregation) than their husbands.

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   11/01/08

   klkatz

   Dolley Madison. Period.
   
   Perhaps, Martha Washington and Lady Bird are a distant second. Abigail Adams is up there too.

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