Dissertation, 1982.

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...

Challinor, Joan Ridder, 1927-

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Challinor, Joan R.

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Civic leader and writer Joan R. Challinor served as director of Knight-Ridder, Incorporated, as chair of the United States National Commission on Libraries and Information Science, chair of the Advisory Committee of the Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, and as a member of the Madison Council at the Library of Congress. Her dissertation was on the life of Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams (American University, 1982), and she s...