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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.
Eliza Monroe Hay. Elizabeth Kortright Monroe Hay (1786-1840) [1], the eldest of the Monroe children, was born in King George, Virginia. She married George Hay (1765-1830) [2], a prominent Virginia attorney and jurist, in October 1808 [3].
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.
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.
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.
George Hay writes to Monroe reporting that Joseph Monroe has gone to Baltimore to marry, 1819. Hay writes to John F. Mercer about James and Elizabeth Monroe's confinement in bed with colds and fever, 1829. Monroe's daughter, Eliza, married George Hay in 1808; Hortensia Hay is their daughter.
