The Regents and Vice-Regents of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association of the Union Since its Organization, with Dates of Appointment

MISS ANN PAMELA CUNNINGHAM, Regent, 1853-1873

(Resigned, 1873; Died, May 1, 1875)

Vice-Regents

1858— 1 Mrs. Anna Cora Ogden Ritchie resigned 1866 Virginia

2 Mrs. Alice H. Dickinson resigned 1859 North Carolina

3 Mrs. Philoclea Edgeworth Eve died 1889 Georgia

4 Mrs. Octavia Walton Levert died 1877 Alabama

5 Mrs. Catharine A. McWillie died 1872 Mississippi

6 Mrs. Margaretta S. Morse resigned 1872 Louisiana

7 Mrs. Mary Rutledge Fogg died 1872 Tennessee

8 Mrs. Elizabeth M. Walton resigned 1858 Missouri

9 Miss Mary Morris Hamilton resigned 1866 New York

10 Mrs. Louisa Ingersoll Greenough resigned 1865 Massachusetts

11 Mrs. Abba Isabella Little resigned 1866 Maine

12 Mrs. Catherine Willis Murat died 1867 Florida

13 Mrs. Mary Booth Goodrich resigned 1864 Connecticut

14 Miss Phœbe Ann Ogden died 1867 New Jersey

15 Mrs. Alice Key Pendleton resigned 1863

died 1885 Ohio

16 Mrs. Abby Wheaton Chace died 1892 Rhode Island

17 Mrs. Jane Maria van Antwerp died 1870 Iowa

18 Mrs. Margaret Ann Comegys died 1888 Delaware

19 Mrs. Hannah Blake Farnsworth died 1879 Michigan

20 Mrs. Sarah King Hale resigned 1861 New Hampshire

21 Mrs. Martha Mitchell died 1902 Wisconsin

22 Mrs. Rosa Vertner Johnson Jeffries died 1894 Kentucky

Mrs. Janet M. C. Riggs, Acting Vice-Regent District of Columbia

1859— 23 Mrs. Elizabeth Willard Barry died 1883 Illinois

24 Mrs. Sarah J. Sibley died 1869 Minnesota

25 Mrs. Mary Pepperell Jarvis Cutts resigned 1878 Vermont

26 Miss Lily Lytle Macalester died 1891 Pennsylvania

27 Mrs. Magdalen G. Blanding resigned 1884 California

28 Mrs. Harriet B. Fitch died 1880 Indiana

29 Mrs. Sarah H. Johnson died 1866 Arkansas

30 Mrs. Letitia Harper Walker died 1908 North Carolina

1860— 31 Mrs. Ann Lucas Hunt died 1878 Missouri

32 Mrs. Mary Chesnut died 1867 South Carolina

1866— 33 Mrs. Margaret J. M. Sweat died 1908 Maine

34 Miss Emily L. Harper died 1891 Maryland

35 Mrs. Lucy H. Pickens died 1899 North Carolina

36 Mrs. M. E. Hickman resigned 1874 Nevada

37 Mrs. M. A. Stearns resigned 1873 New Hampshire

38 Mrs. Emily R. M. Hewson resigned 1872 Ohio

39 Miss Ella Hutchins resigned 1872 Texas

1867— 40 Mrs. Janet M. C. Riggs resigned 1868

died 1871 District of Columbia

41 Mrs. Maria Brooks resigned 1876 New York

42 Mrs. Matilda W. Emory resigned 1873 District of Columbia

1868— 43 Mrs. Nancy Wade Halsted died 1891 New Jersey

44 Mrs. Nannie C. Yulee died 1884 Florida

1870— 45 Mrs. Susan E. Johnson Hudson died 1913 Connecticut

46 Mrs. Ella Bassett Washington died 1898 West Virginia

1872— 47 Mrs. Betsy C. Mason died 1873 Virginia

48 Mrs. A. P. Dillon resigned 1873

died 1898 Iowa

49 Mrs. C. L. Scott resigned 1878 Arkansas

1873— 50 Mrs. William Balfour resigned 1875 Mississippi

51 Mrs. Mary T. Barnes died 1912 District of Columbia

52 Mrs. David Urquehart resigned 1876 Louisiana

53 Miss M. E. Maverick resigned 1873 Texas

MRS. LILY LYTLE MACALESTER BERGHMAN, Second Regent

(Made Acting Regent, 1873; Regent, June, 1874; Died, 1891)

1874— 54 Mrs. Emma Read Ball died 1918 Virginia

55 Mrs. Aaron V. Brown died 1889 Tennessee

1875— 56 Mrs. Elizabeth Lytle Broadwell died 1890 Ohio

57 Mrs. John P. Jones resigned 1876 Nevada

1876— 58 Mrs. Jennie Meeker Ward died 1910 Kansas

59 Mrs. Justine van Rensselaer Townsend died 1912 New York

1878— 60 Mrs. J. Gregory Smith resigned 1884 Vermont

1879— 61 Miss Alice M. Longfellow Massachusetts

62 Mrs. Robert Campbell died 1882 Missouri

1880— 63 Mrs. Ida A. Richardson died 1910 Louisiana

1882— 64 Mrs. Ella S. Herbert died 1884 Alabama

Vice-Regents

1885— 65 Mrs. Elizabeth B. Adams Rathbone resigned 1919

died 1923 Michigan

66 Mrs. Mary T. Leiter died 1913 Illinois

67 Mrs. Janet de Kay King died 1896 Vermont

68 Mrs. Elizabeth Woodward died 1987 Kentucky

1888— 69 Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys Elected Regent 1909 Delaware

70 Mrs. Fannie Gilchrist Baker died 1901 Florida

1889— 71 Mrs. Alice Hill died 1908 Colorado

72 Mrs. Rebecca B. Flandrau died 1912 Minnesota

73 Mrs. Phœbe A. Hearst died 1919 California

1890— 74 Mrs. A. R. Winder died 1906 New Hampshire

1891— 75 Mrs. Georgia Page Wilder died 1914 Georgia

MRS. JUSTINE Van RENSSELAER TOWNSEND, Third Regent

(Elected Temporary Regent, December, 1891; Regent, June, 1892; Died, 1912)

1893— 76 Mrs. Geo. R. Goldsborough resigned 1904

died 1906 Maryland

77 Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott died 1894 Pennsylvania

78 Miss Mary Lloyd Pendleton resigned 1897 Ohio

79 Mrs. Philip Schuyler resigned 1894 New York

80 Mrs. Christine Blair Graham died 1915 Missouri

81 Mrs. Francis Stevens Conover died 1914 New Jersey

82 Mrs. Mary Polk Yeatman Webb died 1917 Tennessee

1894— 83 Miss Lelia Herbert died 1897 Alabama

1895— 84 Mrs. Robert H. Clarkson resigned 1900

died 1902 Nebraska

85 Mrs. William Ames died 1904 Rhode Island

86 Miss Amy Townsend died 1920 New York

1896— 87 Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison died 1922 Pennsylvania

88 Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey Texas

1897— 89 Mrs. James E. Campbell resigned 1902 Ohio

1900— 90 Mrs. Robert D. Johnston Alabama

91 Mrs. Charles F. Manderson died 1916 Nebraska

92 Mrs. Eugene van Rensselaer died 1924 West Virginia

1901— 93 Mrs. John Julius Pringle died 1921 South Carolina

94 Mrs. William F. Barret died 1920 Kentucky

95 Mrs. Charles Denby died 1906 Indiana

1905— 96 Mrs. Henry W. Rogers Maryland

1907— 97 Mrs. Lewis Irwin died 1916 Ohio

98 Miss Mary F. Failing Oregon

99 Mrs. Eliza Ferry Leary Washington

100 Mrs. Frances Jones Ricks resigned 1914 Mississippi

101 Mrs. J. Carter Brown Rhode Island

1909— 102 Mrs. A. B. Andrews died 1915 North Carolina

MISS HARRIET CLAYTON COMEGYS, Fourth Regent

(Elected, May, 1909; Resigned, May, 1927; Died, August, 1927)

1911— 103 Mrs. Alice H. Richards Maine

104 Miss Mary Evarts resigned 1923 Vermont

105 Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon Foster Delaware

1912— 106 Miss Annie Ragan King Louisiana

107 Miss Jane A. Riggs District of Columbia

1913— 108 Mrs. Horace Mann Towner Iowa

109 Mrs. Thomas Palmer Denham Florida

1914— 110 Miss Harriet L. Huntress died 1922 New Hampshire

111 Mrs. Charles Eliot Furness Minnesota

112 Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott Indiana

113 Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks Wisconsin

1915— 114 Miss Annie Burr Jennings Connecticut

115 Mrs. Willard Hall Bradford New Jersey

1916— 116 Mrs. Charles Nagel Missouri

117 Mrs. George A. Carpenter Illinois

118 Miss Mary Govan Billups Mississippi

119 Mrs. John V. Abrahams resigned 1921 Kansas

1919— 120 Mrs. William Ewen Shipp North Carolina

121 Mrs. Horton Pope Colorado

122 Mrs. Charles J. Livingood Ohio

123 Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Anderson Georgia

124 Mrs. Celsus Price Perrie resigned 1922 Arkansas

1920— 125 Mrs. Horace van Deventer Tennessee

126 Mrs. Charles Stetson Wheeler California

1921— 127 Mrs. William Ruffin Cox died 1925 Virginia

1922— 128 Mrs. Henry Gold Danforth New York

1923— 129 Miss Mary Mason Scott Kentucky

130 Mrs. Alexander C. Troup Nebraska

131 Mrs. John Reynolds Shelton Kansas

132 Mrs. Edward H. Parker died 1924 Michigan

1924— 133 Miss Mary Evarts Vermont

1924— 134 Miss Virginia Leigh Porcher South Carolina

135 Mrs. William R. Mercer resigned 1928 Pennsylvania

136 Miss Constance Lee Peterkin West Virginia

1925— 137 Mrs. Benjamin S. Warren Michigan

1927— 138 Mrs. Fairfax Harrison Virginia

MRS. ALICE H. RICHARDS, Fifth Regent

(Elected, May, 1927)

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