Jill Biden is coming to Vermont. She's one of a handful of first ladies to visit the state

This story has been updated to include other times first ladies visited Vermont.

Jill Biden will visit Vermont on April 5, and while she may not be the first first lady to grace the Green Mountain State, she is one of the few.

Biden, who has her doctorate in educational leadership and wrote her 2007 dissertation on community college retention, will be accompanied by U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cordona. The two are expected to promote career-connected learning and workforce training that prepares high school and community college students for jobs created by the president's Investing in America agenda.

They will visit BETA Technologies, and along with Gov. Phil Scott, will discuss ways President Joe Biden's plan helps create high-paying jobs in emerging industries like clean energy and electric vehicles and decreases barriers to access those jobs through federal and state investments in career and technical education.

First Lady Biden is at least one of a handful of presidential spouses to address Vermonters. Here are the others.

Michelle Obama talks to Vermont National Guard members in 2011

While first lady, Michelle Obama addressed Vermont National Guard members and their families in June of 2011, expressing her gratitude for their hard work. Wife of President Barack Obama, the first lady was promoting the Joining Forces campaign designed to recognize military families and to provide support throughout a servicemember's deployment.

Laura Bush takes in Vermont hike in 2008 after campaigning in 2006

First lady Laura Bush visited Vermont twice during her tenure as the wife of the sitting president, George W. Bush. In June of 2008 she took in a hike at the Marsh-Billings-Rockefeller National Historic Park in Woodstock before announcing a $50,000 grant from the National Park Foundation that would help connect the park's trails to the town of Woodstock and the Appalachian Trail.

In 2006 she also campaigned on behalf of Republican candidate Martha Rainville, for Vermont's singular house seat, according to the Rutland Herald.

Barbara Bush in 2006

Former First Lady Barbara Bush, wife to 41st U.S. President George H. W. Bush, came to Vermont to raise support for U.S. House candidate Martha Rainville in September of 2006.

The 81-year old gave a speech at the Sheraton Burlington Hotel and Conference Center in South Burlington. The event raised $50,000 for Rainville's campaign, who became the Republican nominee for the open seat Bernie Sanders left when he moved from the House to the Senate. Rainville ultimately lost the general election to Democrat Peter Welch.

More: Barbara Bush in Vermont: Remembering her 2006 visit

Betty Ford visits her alma mater in 1976

Before becoming first lady or marrying Gerald Ford, Betty Ford studied dance at Bennington College under renowned choreographer Martha Graham.

Forty years after leaving, she returned to the college as first lady in 1976 during the dedication of the school's new visual and performing arts center in May.

Grace Coolidge: one of the few in the room where it happened in 1923

Grace Goodhue Coolidge, a Burlington native, was hardly a visitor to Vermont. She and her husband Calvin − he from Plymouth Notch − grew up in the Green Mountain State.

When President Warren G. Harding unexpectedly suffered a heart attack and died while on a cross-country speaking tour in August of 1923, then-Vice President Coolidge was roused and took the oath of office in his Plymouth homestead at 2:47 a.m., being sworn in by his own father who was a notary. Grace Coolidge was one of five witnesses to the official event on Aug. 2, which was replicated 19 days later before a federal judge in Washington.

The 30th president's inauguration remains unique.

Grace's family home at 312 Maple St. in Burlington, also where she married Calvin Coolidge, bears a historical marker.

More: History Space: A Coolidge celebration

The Lincoln's 1864 Civil War vacation likely led to putting roots here

Years before constructing Hildene, the estate where Robert Lincoln, son to Abraham and Mary Todd, would ultimately reside, the family visited Manchester. It was during the Civil War in 1864 that Mary Todd Lincoln took her two boys at the time − Robert and Tad − for some tranquility in the mountains that summer, according to NewEngland.com, part of Yankee Magazine.

Among the president-adjacent visits to Vermont in recent history include Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff, Vice President Kamala Harris' husband, who came in April 2021 to promote the Biden administration's pandemic relief bill. And, between his vice presidency and announcing a run for president, Joe Biden visited Burlington in December of 2018 to promote his book "Promise Me, Dad," the title which came from his son, Beau, who died from cancer.

Contact reporter April Barton at abarton@freepressmedia.com or 802-660-1854. Follow her on Twitter @aprildbarton.

This article originally appeared on Burlington Free Press: Ahead of Jill Biden visit: other first ladies in Vermont