Betty Steele was the wife of President Joe Steele, and the longest serving First Lady of the United States, holding the position from March 4, 1933 until her husband's death on March 5, 1953. She was also the last First Lady; her husband's immediate successor, John Nance Garner, was a widower, and Garner's de facto successor, J. Edgar Hoover, was a bachelor. Betty was largely an invisible First Lady. When Steele died in 1953, after being elected to a record six terms, she returned to Fresno. No one paid anymore attention to her in retirement.