With Donald Trump’s success on Election Day, Slovenia-born Melania Trump moves into line to end up being the second-ever First Lady regarding the united states of america to be created not in the usa. London-born Louisa Adams, spouse of sixth U.S. president John Quincy Adams, ended up being the initial.
Adams came to be Louisa Catherine Johnson, in London
To a american merchant father and English mom on Feb. 12, 1775—just 8 weeks prior to the very very first shots associated with the Revolutionary War are fired during the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts. The household relocated to Nantes, France, whenever she ended up being 3 because her dad “was a proud US patriot unafraid to exhibit their allegiance, which implied so it became neither safe nor lucrative or him to live” in London, as explained by Louisa Thomas’s biography Louisa. Incidentally, it had been here they entertained John Adams along with his son John Quincy Adams, then about 4 yrs old.
Louisa and John Quincy Adams met again whenever she was at her very early 2os, as he had been a diplomat serving as America’s agent to Holland, during another supper hosted by her daddy. They wed on July 26, 1797, but John Quincy didn’t inform their moms and dads John and Abigail Adams, once you understand they’dn’t approve for the wedding, based on Nancy Hendricks‘s America’s First Ladies: “John Adams objected to their son John Quincy marrying somebody created in a different country, specially one with who the usa had been already at war,” while Abigail would make reference to Louisa disparagingly as “The English Bride.”