Theodore Roosevelt

July 18, 2007 - 1:26pm

Potentially useless trivia for a July afternoon

Lady Bird Johnson lived for nearly 44 years after her husband left the Vice Presidency following John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. That is the longest a former Second Lady of the United States has lived after leaving office.

The second longest tenure as a former Second Lady belongs to a New Jerseyan, Jennie Tuttle Hobart, who died in 1941 -- 42 years after the death of her husband, Garrett Hobart.

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