Elizabeth Kortright Monroe
BIRTH
Jun 30, 1768
New York City, New York
DEATH
September 23, 1830
Aldie, Virginia
First Lady of the United States
1817-1825
FAMILY
FATHER:
Lawrence Kortright
(1728-1794)
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Monroe, Elizabeth Kortright
(1768-1830)
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe was the wife of James Monroe and first lady of the United States. She accompanied Monroe during diplomatic service in France and Britain, intervened on behalf of an imprisoned French noblewoman during the Revolution, and helped introduce more formal White House social customs.
HOMES:
MUSEUM
James Monroe's Highland
2050 James Monroe Pkwy, Charlottesville, VA 22902
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HUSBAND
James Monroe
(1758-1831)
James Spence Monroe
(1799-1800)
Maria Hester Monroe Gouverneur
(1802-1850)
Eliza Kortright Monroe Hay
(?-1840)
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DIED:
Aldie, Virginia
Sep 23, 1830
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe was born on Jun 30, 1768 in New York City, New York. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Elizabeth Kortright Monroe with work or public activity as a first lady, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe died on Sep 23, 1830 in Aldie, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.