“Redheads have moved history out of proportion to their numbers.”
Tuesday, 21 August 2018
594) Louisa Adams
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams (1775 – 1852). Wife of US president John Quincy
Adams, was the First Lady of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
She was born in London, where her father, Joshua Johnson, a US citizen, worked as a consul. Her mother, Catheine Nuth, was an English lady. John Adams, the second president of the USA, was her father-in-law. In 1794, John Quincy Adams met Louisa in London. At that time, Adams was a US diplomat. They married after three years.
She was the first First Lady
to be born outside the United States, or the preceding Thirteen Colonies
— a distinction that would not be replicated until 192 years later by
Melania Trump.
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