Should Mary have received Abraham's salary?

[Angela]

(01-25-2016 04:20 PM)STS Lincolnite Wrote:  I would be interested to know, however, if there was a precedent for such a request or idea. Both Wm Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor were Presidents who had died in office before Lincoln (although not due to assassination). Did their wives receive their husband's salaries or a pension of any sort?

I would not know about Taylor and Harrison but in 1870 a majority of the Senate Committee on Pensions reported that they would table her bill permanently on the grounds of "lack of precedent", among other reasons.