Record of Members of the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association

Regents

Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, 1853–1874; resigned 1874; died May 1, 1875
Mrs. J. Scott Laughton, (née Lily Macalester, later Madame Berghmans), 1874; died 1891
Mrs. Howard Townsend, 1891–1909; died 1912
Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys, 1909; died 1927
Mrs. Alice Haliburton Richards, 1927; died 1936
Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, 1937; died 1942
Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, 1943–1948; died 1959
Mrs. Albert Harkness, (formerly Mrs. Thomas Ives Hare Powel), 1948–1958; died 1974
Mrs. Francis F. Beirne, 1958–1968; died 1969
Mrs. Thomas Turner Cooke, 1968–1976; died 1993
Mrs. John H. Guy, Jr., 1976–1982; died 2016
Mrs. Thomas Dunaway Anderson, 1982–1986; died 2013
Mrs. Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., 1986–1990; died 2010
Mrs. Clarence Morton Bishop, Jr., 1990–1993; died 2007
Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette, 1993–1996
Mrs. Robert E. Lee IV, 1996–1999; died 2019
Mrs. James M. Walton, 1999–2004
Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines, 2004–2007
Mrs. Shepard B. Ansley, 2007–2010; died 2016
Ann Haunschild Bookout, 2010–2013
Barbara Bourgeois Lucas, 2013–2016
Sarah Miller Coulson, 2016

Vice Regents

ALABAMA
Madame Henry S. LeVert, 1858; died 1877
Mrs. Hilary Herbert, 1882; died 1884
Miss Leila Herbert, 1894; died 1897
Mrs. Robert D. Johnston, 1900; died 1934
Mrs. Morris Williams Bush, 1946; resigned 1959; died 1971
Mrs. Preston H. Haskell, Jr., 1963; died 1971
Mrs. H. Taylor Morrissette, 1983; resigned 2001; Regent 1993–1996; Vice Regent Emerita 2002
Laura Peebles Rutherford, 2005

ARIZONA
Mrs. Arthur Newton Pack, 1962; resigned 1984; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2000

ARKANSAS
Mrs. Robert Ward Johnson, 1859; died 1862
Mrs. Charles Gordon Scott, 1872; resigned 1878; died 1910
Mrs. Celsus Price Perrie, 1919; resigned 1922; died 1938
Mrs. J. Fairfax Loughborough, 1932; died 1962
Mrs. Henry Hollenberg (formerly Mrs. John McCaughey Harrison), 1970; resigned 1982; Associate Vice Regent 1982; died 2011
Mrs. Sam Buchanan, 1995; resigned 2006; Vice Regent Emerita 2007
Catherine Hamilton Mayton, 2012

CALIFORNIA
Mrs. William Blanding, 1859; resigned 1884; died 1885
Mrs. George Hearst, 1889; resigned 1918; died 1919
Mrs. Charles S. Wheeler, 1920; resigned 1940; died 1952
Mrs. Lockwood de Forest, 1956; died 1984
Mrs. Richard W. Call, 1984; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2002
Maribeth Armstrong Borthwick, 2002

COLORADO
Mrs. Nathaniel P. Hill, 1889; died 1908
Mrs. Horton Pope, 1919; resigned 1947; died 1950
Mrs. David A. Pfaelzer, 1970; resigned 1986; Vice Regent Emerita 1986; died 2019
Mrs. Eileen M. Olander, formerly Vice Regent for Kansas, 1986; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2015
Mrs. Andrew W. Armour IV, 1996; resigned 2000
Judith Wilson Grant, 2017; died 2020

CONNECTICUT
Mrs. Samuel G. Goodrich, 1858; resigned 1864; died 1868
Mrs. Susan E. Johnson Hudson, 1870; died 1913
Miss Annie Burr Jennings, 1915; died 1939
Mrs. Wilmarth S. Lewis, 1942; died 1959
Mrs. Clifton McCausland Bockstoce, 1965; resigned 1990; Vice Regent Emerita 1990; died 1995
Clare N. Cooley Edwards, 1992; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

DELAWARE
Mrs. Joseph P. Comegys, 1858; died 1888
Miss Harriet Clayton Comegys, 1888; resigned 1927; Regent 1909–1927; died 1927
Mrs. Antoine Lentilhon Foster, 1911; died 1934
Mrs. Thomas F. Bayard, 1937; resigned 1958; died 1975
Mrs. C. Lalor Burdick, 1961; resigned 1983; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2007
Miss Elizabeth N. du Pont, 1985; resigned 1986; died 1989
Mrs. Nelson T. Shields III, 1987; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2002
Mrs. Calhoun W. Wick, 2001; resigned 2004
Susan Marshall Townsend, 2005

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Mrs. George W. Riggs, Acting Vice Regent 1858; appointed 1867; resigned 1868; died 1871
Mrs. William H. Emory, 1870; resigned 1871; died 1900
Mrs. Joseph K. Barnes, 1873; died 1912
Miss Jane A. Riggs, 1912; died 1930
Miss Helen Louise Sargent, 1931; died 1948
Miss Constance Ellen Tyler, 1952; died 1963
Mrs. Randall H. Hagner, Jr., 1965; resigned 1991; died 2007
Mrs. Richard H. Streeter, 1992; resigned 2000; Associate Vice Regent 2000
Lucia Bosqui Henderson, 1999; resigned 2014 to become Vice Regent for Virginia
Mrs. Togo D. West, Jr., 2014; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

FLORIDA
Madame Achille Murat, 1858; died 1867
Mrs. David Levy Yulee, 1868; died 1884
Mrs. James M. Baker, 1888; died 1901
Mrs. Thomas Palmer Denham, 1913; resigned 1948; died 1950
Mrs. LeRoy Collins, 1961; resigned 1982; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2009
Mrs. John K. Aurell, 1985; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000
Mrs. Stanley N. Gaines, 2000; resigned 2013; Regent 2004–2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2014
Claudia Puig Amundsen, 2014; resigned 2019; Vice Regent Emerita 2019

GEORGIA
Mrs. William J. Eve, 1858; died 1889
Mrs. Joseph John Wilder, 1891; died 1914
Mrs. Jefferson Randolph Anderson, 1919; resigned 1949; died 1956
Mrs. Barnwell Cubbedge, 1958; resigned 1969; died 1985
Mrs. Frank Anderson Chisholm, 1971; resigned 1986; Vice Regent Emerita 1986; died 2015
Boyce Lineberger Ansley, 1987; Regent 2007–2010; died 2016
Elizabeth Medlin Hale, 2018

IDAHO
Mrs. Richard R. Simplot, 1999; resigned 2010; Vice Regent Emerita 2011

ILLINOIS
Mrs. William Barry, 1859; died 1883
Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, 1885; died 1913
Mrs. George A. Carpenter, 1916; resigned 1947; died 1948
Mrs. Henry Porter Isham, 1949; resigned 1972; died 1986
Mrs. Erskine Phelps Wilder, Jr., 1976; resigned 1992; Vice Regent Emerita 1992; died 2005
Mrs. Tyler R. Cain, 1994; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001; died 2013
Catherine Marlette Waddell, 2013

INDIANA
Mrs. Graham Newell Fitch, 1859; died 1880
Mrs. Charles Denby, 1901; died 1906
Mrs. Benjamin D. Walcott, 1914; resigned 1932; died 1933
Mrs. Benjamin D. Hitz, 1936; resigned 1978; Honorary Vice Regent 1978; died 1979
Mrs. James T. Neal, 1982; resigned 1994; Vice Regent Emerita, 1994
Mrs. Alpha Coles Blackburn, 2008; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014

IOWA
Mrs. VerPlanck Van Antwerp, 1858; died 1870
Mrs. John F. Dillon, 1872; resigned 1873; died 1898
Mrs. Horace Mann Towner, 1913; Regent 1937-1942; died 1942
Mrs. Charles Leslie Brockett (formerly Mrs. Douglas Nelson Gibson), 1955; resigned 1983; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2000

KANSAS
Mrs. Milan Lester Ward, 1876; died 1910
Mrs. John V. Abrahams, 1916; resigned 1921
Mrs. John Reynolds Shelton, 1923; resigned 1930; died 1936
Mrs. Earl K. Lord, 1930; died 1956
Mrs. Eileen M. Olander, 1970; resigned 1986 to become Vice Regent for Colorado; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2015
Mrs. J. Craig McIlvain, 1993; resigned 2003; Associate Vice Regent, 2003

KENTUCKY
Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey, 1858; resigned 1885; died 1894
Mrs. George W. Woodward, 1885; resigned 1889, re-appointed 1891; died 1897
Mrs. William F. Barret, 1901; died 1920
Miss Mary Mason Scott, 1923; died 1934
Mrs. Mason Barret, 1938; resigned 1953; died 1955
Mrs. Walter N. Haldeman, 1960; resigned 1974; died 1984
Mrs. Phillip B. Newman III, 1985; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000; died 2017

LOUISIANA
Mrs. Isaac F. Morse, 1858; resigned 1872; died 1893
Mrs. David Urquhart, 1873; resigned 1876
Mrs. Tobias G. Richardson, 1880; died 1910
Miss Annie Ragan King, 1912; died 1933
Miss Sarah Duncan Butler, 1936; resigned 1960; died 1966
Mrs. Frank G. Strachan, 1963; resigned 1987; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 2000
Mrs. Donald J. Nalty, 1990; resigned 1999; Vice Regent Emerita 1999
Cameron Kock Mayer, 2000

MAINE
Mrs. Josiah S. Little, 1858; resigned 1866; died 1893
Mrs. Lorenzo M. Sweat, 1866; died 1908
Mrs. Alice Haliburton Richards, 1911; Regent 1927; died 1936
Mrs. Harold Lee Berry, 1930; resigned 1968; died 1971
Mrs. William L. Vaughan, 1971; resigned 1987; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 2003
Mrs. Everett B. Carson, 1989; resigned 1992
Margaret Hartman Nichols, 2012

MARYLAND
Miss Emily L. Harper, 1866; died 1892
Mrs. George R. Goldsborough, 1893; resigned 1904; died 1906
Mrs. Henry W. Rogers, 1905; died 1931
Mrs. DeCourcy W. Thom, 1935; resigned 1946; died 1963
Mrs. Francis F. Beirne, 1948; Regent 1958–1968; died 1969
Mrs. Robert E. Lee IV (formerly Mrs. Carew C. Rice), 1972; resigned 2006; Regent 1996–1999; Vice Regent Emerita 2007; died 2019
Barbara Bourgeois Lucas, 2008, Regent 2013–2016; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

MASSACHUSETTS
Mrs. Horatio Greenough, 1858; resigned 1865; died 1891
Miss Alice M. Longfellow, 1879; died 1928
Mrs. Nathaniel Thayer, 1930; died 1934
Mrs. John Templeman Coolidge, 1940; resigned 1948; died 1964
Mrs. Samuel Cabot, 1949; died 1969
Mrs. Robert Channing Seamans, Jr., 1975; Regent 1986–1990; resigned 1993; Vice Regent Emerita 1993; died 2010
Ms. Elizabeth M. Chapin, 1994; resigned 2008; Vice Regent Emerita 2008
Andrea Notman Sahin, 2011

MICHIGAN
Mrs. Elon Farnsworth 1858; resigned 1877; died 1879
Mrs. Joshua Henry Rathbone, 1885; resigned 1918; died 1923
Mrs. Edward H. Parker, 1923; died 1924
Mrs. Benjamin S. Warren, 1925; resigned 1959; died 1968
Mrs. Alexander L. Wiener, 1964; resigned 1989; Vice Regent Emerita 1989; died 1995
Mrs. Lloyd A. Semple, 1990; resigned 2006; Vice Regent Emerita 2007

MINNESOTA
Mrs. Henry H. Sibley, 1859; died 1869
Mrs. Charles Eugene Flandrau, 1889; died 1911
Mrs. Charles Eliot Furness, 1914; died 1935
Miss Anna E. Ramsey Furness, 1940; died 1964
Mrs. David Bradford, 1982; resigned 1992; Associate Vice Regent 1994; died 2004
Mrs. J. Hap Fauth, 1995; resigned 2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2008

MISSISSIPPI
Mrs. William McWillie, 1858; died 1873
Mrs. William Balfour, 1873; resigned 1885; died 1887
Mrs. Kate Walthall Freeman, 1885; resigned 1888; died 1919
Mrs. Benjamin Sherrod Ricks, 1907; resigned 1914; died 1918
Miss Mary Govan Billups, 1916; resigned 1963; died 1971
Mrs. Stewart J. Gilchrist, 1974; resigned 1990; Vice Regent Emerita 1990
Mrs. Stewart Gammill III, 1991; resigned 2011; Vice Regent Emerita 2011
Susan Stevens Reeder, 2011

MISSOURI
Mrs. Robert R. Walton, 1858; resigned 1859; died 1860
Mrs. Wilson Price Hunt, 1860; died 1878
Mrs. Robert Campbell, 1879; died 1882
Mrs. Benjamin Graham, 1893; died 1915
Mrs. Charles Nagel, 1916; resigned 1943; died 1951
Mrs. Marvin E. Holderness, 1948; resigned 1959 to become Vice Regent for Tennessee; died 1970
Mrs. Robert Neill, Jr., 1964; resigned 1973
Mrs. Tom K. Smith, Jr., 1982; resigned 1997; Vice Regent Emerita 1997
Ann Cady Scott, 2011

NEBRASKA
Mrs. Robert H. Clarkson, 1894; resigned 1900; died 1902
Mrs. Charles F. Manderson, 1900; died 1916
Mrs. Alexander C. Troup, 1923; died 1950

NEVADA
Mrs. M. E. Hickman, 1866; resigned 1874
Mrs. John P. Jones, 1875; resigned 1876; died 1936

NEW HAMPSHIRE
Mrs. Salma Hale, 1858; resigned 1861; died 1865
Mrs. Onslow Stearns, 1866; resigned 1873; died 1895
Mrs. Abby Godwin Winder, 1890; died 1906
Miss Harriet L. Huntress, 1914; died 1922
Mrs. Gordon Woodbury, 1929; resigned 1949; died 1966
Mrs. John Lawrence Sullivan, 1952; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 1994

NEW JERSEY
Miss Phebe A. Ogden, 1858; died 1865
Mrs. Nathaniel Norris Halsted, 1868; died 1891
Mrs. Francis S. Conover, 1893; died 1914
Mrs. Willard Hall Bradford, 1915; resigned 1939; died 1941
Mrs. Thomas Turner Cooke, 1946; resigned 1987; Regent 1968–1976; Vice Regent Emerita 1987; died 1993
Mrs. Stephen K. West, 1989; resigned 2005; Vice Regent Emerita 2006; died 2020
Elizabeth Whitesides Holdsworth, 2006; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

NEW YORK
Miss Mary M. Hamilton (later Mrs. George Lee Schuyler), 1858; resigned 1866; died 1877
Mrs. James Brooks, 1867; resigned 1876; died 1882
Mrs. Howard Townsend, 1876; Regent 1891-1909; resigned 1909; died 1912
Mrs. Philip Schuyler, 1893; resigned 1894; died 1915
Miss Amy Townsend, 1894; died 1920
Mrs. Henry Gold Danforth, 1922; resigned 1948; died 1961
Ms. Thomas Stilwell Lamont, 1952; died 1972
Mrs. Douglas Williams, 1975; resigned 1994; Vice Regent Emerita 1994; died 2006
Mrs. Randolph H. Guthrie, 1996; resigned 2008; Vice Regent Emerita 2009

NORTH CAROLINA
Mrs. P. K. Dickinson, 1858; resigned 1859; died 1881
Mrs. William Richmond Walker, 1859; died 1908
Mrs. Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1909; died 1915
Mrs. William Ewen Shipp, 1919; died 1936
Mrs. John Witherspoon Labouisse, 1944; resigned 1978; Honorary Vice Regent 1978; died 1985
Mrs. Thomas B. Battle, 1982; resigned 1999; Vice Regent Emerita 1999
Jean Armfield Sherrill, 2002

OHIO
Mrs. George H. Pendleton, 1858; resigned 1863; died 1886
Mrs. Emily R. McIlvaine Hewson, 1866; resigned 1873; died 1904
Mrs. Samuel J. Broadwell, 1875; died 1890
Miss Mary Lloyd Pendleton, 1893; resigned 1897; died 1929
Mrs. James E. Campbell, 1897; resigned 1902; died 1913
Mrs. Lewis W. Irwin, 1907; died 1916
Mrs. Charles J. Livingood, 1919; resigned 1935; died 1936
Mrs. Chester C. Bolton, 1938; died 1977
Mrs. Kenyon C. Bolton, 1978; resigned 1989; Honorary Vice Regent 1989; died 2014
Mrs. Charles D. Weller, 1996; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001
Melody Sawyer Richardson, 2003; resigned 2017; Vice Regent Emerita 2018

OKLAHOMA
Mrs. Russell Story Tarr, 1947; resigned 1974; died 1988
Mrs. William Vilas Hanks, 1978; resigned 1996; Vice Regent Emerita 1996; died 2006
Mary Elizabeth Creekmore Henke, 1999; resigned 2016, Vice Regent Emerita 2017

OREGON
Miss Mary F. Failing, 1907; died 1947
Mrs. Clarence M. Bishop, Jr., 1976; Regent 1990-1993; resigned 1996, Vice Regent Emerita 1997; died 2007
Mrs. James F. Crumpacker, 2001; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014
Mary Lang Bishop, 2017

PENNSYLVANIA
Mrs. J. Scott Laughton (née Lily Lytle Macalester; later, Madame Berghmans), 1859; Second Regent 1874-1891; died 1891
Mrs. J. Dundas Lippincott, 1893; died 1894
Mrs. Charles Custis Harrison, 1896; died 1922
Mrs. William R. Mercer, Jr., 1924; resigned 1928; died 1960
Mrs. Benjamin Franklin Pepper, 1929; resigned 1948; died 1955
Mrs. Henry Norris Platt, 1948; resigned 1983; died 1984
Mrs. Robert McAdoo (formerly Mrs. F. Woodson Hancock, Jr.), 1985; resigned 1988
Mrs. James M. Walton, 1991; Regent 1999–2004; resigned 2007; Vice Regent Emerita 2008
Sarah Miller Coulson, 2011; Regent 2016–

RHODE ISLAND
Mrs. George I. Chace, 1858; died 1893
Mrs. William Ames, 1894; died 1904
Mrs. John Carter Brown, 1907; resigned 1935; Honorary Vice Regent 1935; died 1936
Mrs. Albert Harkness (formerly Mrs. Thomas Ives Hare Powel), 1936; Regent 1948–1958; resigned 1971; died 1974
Mrs. Richard Alexander, 1978; resigned 1996; Vice Regent Emerita 1996; died 2019
Liz Rollins Mauran, 2009

SOUTH CAROLINA
Miss Ann Pamela Cunningham, Regent 1853–1874; resigned 1874; died 1875
Mrs. James Chesnut, Sr., 1860; died 1864
Mrs. Francis Wilkinson Pickens, 1866; died 1899
Mrs. John Julius Pringle, 1901; died 1921
Miss Virginia Leigh Porcher, 1924; died 1940
Mrs. Benjamin Allston Moore, 1948; resigned 1967; died 1987
Mrs. Daniel W. Hollis, 1970; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 2015
Mrs. Benjamin A. Hagood, 1987; resigned 2002; Vice Regent Emerita 2003
Virginia Dawson Lane, 2003

TENNESSEE
Mrs. Francis B. Fogg, 1858; died 1872
Mrs. Aaron V. Brown, 1874; died 1889
Mrs. Thomas Shapard Webb (née Mary Polk Yeatman), 1893; died 1917
Mrs. Horace Van Deventer, 1920; died 1956
Mrs. Marvin E. Holderness, former Vice Regent for Missouri, 1959; died 1970
Mrs. Alex Pirtle, Jr, 1980; resigned 2000; Vice Regent Emerita 2000; died 2012
Mrs. David Bowlin, 2003; resigned 2003
Mrs. William Lipscomb Davis, Jr., 2006; resigned 2012; Vice Regent Emerita 2013

TEXAS
Miss Ella Hutchins, 1866; resigned 1872; died 1913
Miss Mary E. Maverick, 1873; resigned 1873; died 1891
Mrs. Thomas S. Maxey, 1896; Honorary Vice Regent 1937; died 1938
Mrs. John Mirza Bennett, 1940; died 1963
Mrs. Thomas Dunaway Anderson, 1967; Regent 1982–1986; resigned 1991; Vice Regent Emerita 1991; died 2013
Mrs. W. Temple Webber, Jr., 1992; resigned 2001; Associate Vice Regent 2001
Ann Haunschild Bookout, 2002; Regent 2010–2013

VERMONT
Mrs. Hampden Cutts, 1859; resigned 1878; died 1879
Mrs. J. Gregory Smith, 1878; resigned 1884; died 1905
Mrs. Cornelius Low King, 1885; died 1896
Miss Mary Evarts, 1911; resigned 1923; reappointed 1924; died 1928
Mrs. Horace Brown, 1930; resigned 1940; died 1943
Mrs. James Shepard Dennis, 1946; died 1946
Mrs. A. John Holden, Jr., 1961; resigned 1978; Associate Vice Regent 1993; died 2004
Mrs. Arthur J. Dewey, Jr., 1984; resigned 1993; Associate Vice Regent 1994; died 2016
Mrs. Frederick West, 1998; resigned 2000

VIRGINIA
Mrs. William F. Ritchie, 1858; resigned 1866; died 1870
Mrs. Thomson Francis Mason, 1872; died 1873
Mrs. Charles B. Ball, 1874; died 1918
Mrs. William R. Cox, 1921; died 1925
Mrs. Fairfax Harrison, 1927; died 1943
Mrs. Edward Clifford Anderson, 1947; resigned 1960; died 1994
Mrs. John H. Guy, Jr., 1963; Regent 1976; resigned 1995; Vice Regent Emerita 1995; died 2016
Mrs. P. William Moore, Jr., 1996; resigned 2014; Vice Regent Emerita 2014
Lucia Bosqui Henderson, formerly Vice Regent for the District of Columbia, 2014

WASHINGTON
Mrs. John Leary, 1907; died 1935
Mrs. Stanley D. Lyle, 1944; died 1955
Margaret Appleton Allison, 1985; resigned 2019; Vice Regent Emerita 2019

WEST VIRGINIA
Mrs. Lewis William Washington, 1870; died 1898
Mrs. Eugene Van Rensselaer, 1900; died 1923
Miss Constance Lee Peterkin, 1924; resigned 1946; died 1948
Mrs. Augustine Jaquelin Todd, 1955; resigned 1985; Vice Regent Emerita 1985; died 1987
Mrs. Robert W. Lawson III, 1987; resigned 2009; Vice Regent Emerita 2009

WISCONSIN
Mrs. Alexander Mitchell, 1858; died 1902
Mrs. Lucien M. Hanks, 1914; Regent 1943; resigned 1956; died 1959
Mrs. John Cunningham Lobb, 1960; resigned 1962; died 2005
Mrs. Douglas Seaman, 1989; resigned 2001; Vice Regent Emerita 2001
Anne Neal Petri, 2008

WYOMING
Mrs. Thomas S. Taliaferro, Jr., 1936; resigned 1950; died 1953
Mrs. John F. Mars, 2003; resigned 2012; Vice Regent Emerita 2013
Helen Herboth Laughery, 2013