Dolley Madison - First Lady of the Land - S1E13

Though married to the fourth president, Dolley Madison was the first First Lady to embody the position as we know it today. She pretty much invented it, actually. She played an active role in her husband's administration, had a keen political sense, saved American treasures, and was the one of, if not the, most important women in the United States for decades. When she died in 1849, she was the last public figure from America's founding generation.