Mary Francis Hoyt (also Mary Francis Moses; June 17, 1858 – October 19, 1958), a Vassar College graduate, was the first woman to receive a position in the United States federal civil service. President Dwight D. Eisenhower in a letter congratulated her on this achievement and pointed out that since then hundreds of thousands of women had followed her example and filled these government positions. She died in 1958, at the age of 100.