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Adams, Louisa Catherine(Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams)

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Born: 1775 AD
Died: 1852 AD, at 77 years of age.

Nationality: American
Categories: First Ladies

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1775 - Born on the 12th of February in London.

1794 - She met
John Quincy Adams in London.

1797 - She was married to
John Quincy Adams in All Hallows-by-the-Tower.

1801 - She
arrived in the United States for the first time.

1809 - She took two-year-old Charles Francis Adams to Russia, where she served as a Minister.

1814 - She called for peace negotiations to Ghent and then to London.

1817 - Her drawing room became a center for the diplomatic corps and other notables.

1831 - Her husband began seventeen years of service in the United States House of Representatives.

1847 - They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary at Quincy.

1848 - Her husband died at the U.S Capitol.

1852 - She died on the 15th of May in Washington, at the age of 77.






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