Louisa Catherine Adams autograph undated

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Louisa Catherine Adams autograph undated

Wife of President John Quincy Adams. Autograph signature of Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of President John Quincy Adams. Sent to Robert Gilmore, Esq. of Baltimore.

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Adams, Louisa Catherine, 1775-1852

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Louisa Catherine Adams, the first of America’s First Ladies to be born outside of the United States, did not come to this country until four years after she had married John Quincy Adams. Political enemies sometimes called her English. She was born in London to an English mother, Catherine Nuth Johnson, but her father was American–Joshua Johnson, of Maryland–and he served as United States consul after 1790. A career diplomat at 27, accredited to the Netherlands, John Quincy developed his inte...