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Lois Irene Kimsey Marshall (born Lois Irene Kimsey; May 9, 1873 – January 6, 1958) was the wife of
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Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall (March 14, 1854 – June 1, 1925) was an American politician who served as the 28th vice president of the United States from 1913 to 1921 under President Woodrow Wilson. A prominent lawyer in Indiana, he became an acti ...
, the 28th vice president of the United States
The vice president of the United States (VPOTUS) is the second-highest officer in the executive branch of the U.S. federal government, after the president of the United States, and ranks first in the presidential line of succession. The vice ...
. During her husband's tenure she held the unofficial position of the second Lady of the United States
The second gentleman or second lady of the United States (SGOTUS or SLOTUS respectively) is the informal title held by the spouse of the vice president of the United States, concurrent with the vice president's term of office. Coined in contrast ...
from 1913 to 1921. She served also as first lady of Indiana
Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern United States. It is the 38th-largest by area and the 17th-most populous of the 50 States. Its capital and largest city is Indianapolis. Indiana was admitted to the United States as the 19th s ...
during her husband's Governorship (1909–1913).
Biography
Lois Kimsey was the daughter of William Edward Kimsey and Elizabeth Dale. Lois married Thomas Marshall, 19 years her senior, on October 2, 1895.
She became involved in charitable activities in Washington, D.C.
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and spent time working at the Diet Kitchen Welfare Center providing free meals to impoverished children. In 1917, she became acquainted with a mother of newborn twins, one of whom was chronically ill. The child's parents were unable to get adequate treatment for their son's condition. Lois Marshall formed a close bond with the baby, who was named Clarence Ignatius Morrison, and offered to take him and help him find treatment.
The Marshalls had been unable to have children, but they never officially adopted Morrison because they believed that to go through the procedure while his parents were still alive would appear unusual to the public. They instead made a special arrangement with his parents. Morrison lived with the Marshalls for the rest of his life. In correspondence they referred to him as Morrison Marshall, but in person they called him Izzy. Lois took him to see many doctors and spent all her available time trying to nurse him back to health, but his condition worsened and he died in February 1920, just before his fourth birthday.
After her husband died in 1925, Lois moved to Phoenix, Arizona and lived on her husband's pension and the sales of his memoirs. She died at her Phoenix home on January 6, 1958, at age 84. She was interred next to her husband in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana./ref>
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