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Monroe, Elizabeth Kortwright 1768-1830

Wife of President James Monroe; born in New York City in 1768; married Monroe in 1786; accompanied her husband abroad in 1794 and 1803. She was instrumental in obtaining the release of Madame Lafayette during the French Revolution. She died in Loudon county, Va., in 1830.

Harper and Brothers Publishers. . New York. 1902.

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