在歐洲度完蜜月後，安潔麗卡和亞伯拉罕范布倫回到華盛頓與白宮，美麗又有魅力的安潔麗卡很快地成為公公在白宮裡的好幫手 – 如同朵莉麥迪遜成功地幫助過去單身的總統湯瑪士傑佛遜時、所擔任的角色一樣。
 
安潔麗卡范布倫的白宮生活讓她在小女兒出生才幾個月後就死亡時、病情加重，但她的確是自己的公公不可或缺的資產，如同一家報社所描寫的：她是個「創造罕見功績的女性，卻又能保持優雅的態度、與他人自由、活潑地交談…受到所有人的欣賞。

安潔麗卡從未身為正式的第一夫人，但扮演著相當重要的角色，讓好幾位第一夫人爭相倣傚，運用社交技巧來幫助總統權為的穩固。

After a honeymoon in Europe, Angelica and Abraham Van Buren returned to Washington and the White House. The beautiful and charming Angelica quickly stepped in to help her father-in-law as White House hostess -- the same role that her patron, Dolley Madison, had once filled with notable success for an earlier widower-president, Thomas Jefferson.

Angelica Van Buren's White House experience was darkened by her illness after her baby daughter was born and by the little girl's death when she was only a few months old, but she was clearly an asset to her father-in-law's administration. As one newspaper put it, she was considered a "lady of rare accomplishments, very modest yet perfectly easy and graceful in her manners and free and vivacious in her conversation ... universally admired."

Angelica may not have been officially the first lady, but she played an important role that several first ladies have imitated: using their social skills to help a troubled presidency.

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