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Elizabeth Monroe

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Personal details and public facts.

Profession
First Lady
Died
Sep 23, 1830
Zodiac
Cancer
Born in
New York City NY
About
Wife of the fifth President of the United States, James Monroe, and served as the First Lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825. She became friends with Napoleon Bonaparte's family when her husband was the United States Minister to France.
Family
Born to Lawrence Kortright and Hannah Aspinwall, she married James Monroe in February 1786 while she was 17 and he was 27. The couple had three children together: Eliza, Maria, and James.

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