First Gentleman

First Gentleman

English

Noun

First Gentleman (plural First Gentlemen)

1. The husband (or man of similar rank) of a female chief executive of a nation; especially the husband of the President of a country.
   • 2002, Crisostomo, Isabelo T., The Power and the Glory: Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and Her Presidency, →ISBN:

     President Gloria M. Arroyo and First Gentleman Mike Arroyo (left) during a “pamanikan” with the Montealegre family (couple at right) to ask for the hand of their daughter engaged to be married to the President’s son Mikey M. Arroyo (center). […] The day of his arrival, Malacañang announced that henceforth the First Gentleman was going to have his own spokesman.

   • 2004, The Macapagal-Arroyo Presidency and Administration: Record and Legacy, 2001-2004 : President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and Her Administration, University of the Philippines Press, →ISBN, page 52:

     President Macapagal-Arroyo had been amply forewarned. First Gentleman Miguel Arroyo said she “knew that her job as Vice President was to be prepared to take over […] ”

   • 2004 November, Bachman, Kristina, The First Gentleman, iUniverse, →ISBN:

     Meredith Nicholson becomes the 44th President of the United States and Milton Stafford becomes the country's "First Gentleman". […] After all what were husbands—”First Gentlemen”—good for if they didn’t go above and beyond for the ones they loved.

   • 2005, Schmidt, Gary D., First Boy, →ISBN:

     Fourteen years ago, before the President and First Gentleman were married, they checked into Keene Memorial Hospital and there had a son, this boy, Cooper Jewett.

   • 2011 May 9, Kapur, Jyostna; Wagner, Keith B., Neoliberalism and Global Cinema: Capital, Culture, and Marxist Critique, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     Seven years later, in 2006, Kubrador was released in the wake of another sequence of state crises: the political scandals of 2005 that implicated the First Gentleman of the Philippines, Mike Arroyo, in payoffs from the illegal gambling trade, jueteng. […] The opening intertitles point to jueteng payolas as being linked to both deposed leader Joseph “Erap” Estrada and family members of former president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, whose husband, First Gentleman Mike Arroyo, was also accused of involvement in jueteng.

2. (US) The husband of a governor or mayor.
   • 1988 December 12, “While Nebraska Governor Kay Orr Makes Policy, Husband Bill, her ‘First Gentleman’ Bakes Meat Loaf”, in People, quoted in Governing Codes: Gender, Metaphor, and Political Identity, →ISBN:

     Forthcoming episodes deal with husband learning to cook, husband (henceforth to be known as First Gentleman) being seated with the wives at the Governors’ conference, and husband deploring the décor of the Governor’s mansion. / Turn off the laugh track, folks, this is no sitcom. It’s the very happy real-life story of Nebraska’s first female Governor.

   • 2008, Nebraska History, volume 89:

     […] the governor’s residence and by the speeding ticket she received while driving the governor’s caro Governor Kay Orr (1987–91) and her husband, Bill, set a new precedent when they became the first woman governor and “First Gentleman” […]

   • 2009, Carolina Comments, volume 57, North Carolina State Department of Archives and History:

     […] the museum acquired another first: the tuxedo that North Carolina's first First Gentleman wore to the inaugural ball.

Coordinate terms

• First Lady

Further reading

• First Lady on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• List of first gentlemen in the United States on Wikipedia.Wikipedia