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Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Hay (December 1786 – January 27, 1840) was an American socialite who acted as unofficial First Lady during her father James Monroe's presidency, as her mother's health kept her away from many White House duties.
Due to the fragile condition of Monroe's health, many of her duties as the official White House hostess were assumed by her eldest daughter, Eliza Monroe Hay.
27 giu 2023 · In which Eliza Monroe Hay, James Monroe's daughter, requests assistance from the King Louis Philippe of France because of the aid her parents provided his mother during the French Revolution. Kathryn Gehred is joined by Nancy Stetz, Education Programs Manager at James Monroe's Highland.
Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Hay (1786-1840), the eldest of the Monroe children, was born in King George, Virginia. She married George Hay (1765-1830), a prominent Virginia attorney and jurist, in October 1808. They had one daughter, Hortensia (1809-1834).
10 lug 2014 · Eliza Monroe Hay. (James Monroe Presidential Museum and Library) The First Family also included the President’s eldest daughter Eliza Hay, married to the prominent Virginia attorney George Hay who had also served as prosecutor in the trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr, and their only child, a daughter Hortensia.
Educated in the most elite Parisian school of Madame Campan, the former lady-in-waiting to Marie Antoinette, Eliza Hay frequently substituted for her mother as White House hostess and it seems evident that she established the exclusive nature of the social tone of the Administration.
Hay. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe was the daughter of James Monroe and his wife, Elizabeth Monroe (née Kortright). She spent much of her childhood in Paris during the French Revolution, when her father was the American minister to France and attended school at Maison d'éducation de la Légion d'honneur, the school set up by...
