Talk:Elizabeth Monroe

Article is too short
This article on an American First Lady is too short and needs to be expanded. There is virtually nothing about her tenure as First Lady, which she held for 8 years!--Jeanne Boleyn (talk) 07:36, 30 June 2010 (UTC)

Reputation as First Lady
'...Elizabeth Monroe regained a measure of respect and admiration during her husband's second term...'

Doesn't say why she had forfeited respect and admiration in her husband's first term. Valetude (talk) 11:19, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

Her parents
Her parents are described as '6th generation of Dutch Flanders origins'. What does this mean? 6th generation in America? Valetude (talk) 11:21, 12 October 2013 (UTC)

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Oldest daughter or youngest?
This article says Monroe was the Kortrights' youngest daughter, but Harlow Giles Unger's biography of her husband (The Last Founding Father) says she was the oldest. The citation for her being the youngest is to a primary source (quite a few of this article's citations seem to be to primary sources), so ordinarily Wikipedia would go with the Unger biography instead, but I first wondered if there were any Monroe (or Kortright) scholars around who could point to other sources that would confirm either way? I'm a bit sceptical of Unger because he also says that Lawrence Kortright was a captain in the British Army, and while I can't find anything that says that's not true, everything I do find about him would seem to point to his captaincy being either as a sea captain or in the militia. But this article already contains one citation to the same page of his biography on which he says that Elizabeth was the oldest daughter, and virtually every American historian of the Revolutionary War I've ever read has mishandled British ranks and titles, so I'm taking it that The Last Founding Father is still seen as reliable. Binabik80 (talk) 14:36, 9 October 2019 (UTC)

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