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Elizabeth Monroe

1768 - 1830

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Elizabeth Monroe (née Kortright; June 30, 1768 – September 23, 1830) was the first lady of the United States from 1817 to 1825, as the wife of James Monroe, fifth president of the United States. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elizabeth Monroe is the 9,736th most popular politician (up from 10,851st in 2019), the 3,692nd most popular biography from United States (up from 3,904th in 2019) and the 316th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Elizabeth Monroe ranks 9,736 out of 19,576Before her are Muhammad XIII of Granada, Anna van Egmont, Adam Wilhelm Moltke, John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe, Michael Martin, Baron Martin of Springburn, and Adolf Hühnlein. After her are Wilhelm von Mirbach, Thoros I, Prince of Armenia, Ishme-Dagan I, Bah Ndaw, Marcello Tegalliano, and Pietro Nenni.

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Among people born in 1768, Elizabeth Monroe ranks 25Before her are Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden, Frederick William, Prince of Nassau-Weilburg, Peter Wittgenstein, Sikandar Jah, Joseph Anton Koch, and Wang Zhenyi. After her are Jean-Baptiste Debret, Dolley Madison, Maria Wirtemberska, Maria Edgeworth, Jacques Lauriston, and Agustín Eyzaguirre. Among people deceased in 1830, Elizabeth Monroe ranks 21Before her are Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg, Petar I Petrović-Njegoš, Dominique Vandamme, Princess Louise of Hesse-Darmstadt, Samuel Thomas von Sömmerring, and Stéphanie Félicité, comtesse de Genlis. After her are Swaminarayan, Pierre Rode, Duke William Frederick Philip of Württemberg, Frederick Ferdinand, Duke of Anhalt-Köthen, Ignaz Schuppanzigh, and Marcos Portugal.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Elizabeth Monroe ranks 3,692 out of 20,380Before her are Larry Silverstein (1931), Archibald Gracie IV (1858), Richard Sears (1861), Tom Peters (1942), Denise Richards (1971), and Kirk Acevedo (1971). After her are James P. Allison (1948), Chad Smith (1961), Barbara Jones (1937), Blake Lively (1987), Elizabeth Roemer (1929), and David Ogden Stiers (1942).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Elizabeth Monroe ranks 316Before her are Mangas Coloradas (1792), Dean Rusk (1909), Winfield Scott (1786), Bill Walker (1951), Edith Head (1897), and Joseph Taylor Robinson (1872). After her are Harry Hopkins (1890), Jay Rockefeller (1937), Marie Smith Jones (1918), R. James Woolsey Jr. (1941), Jim Garrison (1921), and William Windom (1827).