From the Archives: Meet the Presidential Moms

Jeannie Chen
May 11, 2012
11:22 AM EST

Behind every President is the mother who raised him. In honor of Mother’s Day (which is this Sunday, May 13) our colleagues at the National Archives put together a gallery of Presidents and their moms, selected from the holdings of the 13 Presidential Libraries.

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Hulda Minthorn Hoover, mother of Herbert Hoover. Circa 1870.

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Sara Delano Roosevelt with 5 year old Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1887.

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President Truman and his mother, Mary Ellen Truman, disembarking on an airplane during Martha Ellen Truman's first visit to Washington in 1945.

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Photograph of the Eisenhower family on the steps of the family home. L-R: Roy, Arthur, Earl, Edgar, David, Milton, Ida; Dwight seated on steps. 1925.

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President John F. Kennedy applauds his mother, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, during the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation Awards Dinner. December 6, 1962.

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Portrait of Rebekah Baines Johnson. 1917.

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Photograph of Richard Nixon’s family: Francis A. Nixon and Hannah Nixon with children: L-R: Harold, Donald, and Richard. 1916

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Gerald R. Ford in a striped suit with his mother, Dorothy Gardner Ford, and his half-brother, James F. "Jim" Ford, possibly on Easter Sunday. 1918.

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Miss Lillian Carter pays a brief call on her son, President Jimmy Carter, after her return trip from India. February 17, 1977.

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Reagan family Christmas card. L-R: John Edward Reagan, Neil Reagan, Nelle Wilson Reagan, Ronald Reagan. Circa 1916.

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Prescott and Dorothy Bush, the parents of George H.W. Bush. Circa 1952.

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Family Portrait of Bill Clinton with his mother Virginia and his half brother Roger Clinton. 1959.

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George and Barbara Bush with their first born child George W. Bush, while Bush was a student at Yale. Circa 1947.

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Barack Obama with his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham.

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