Louisa AdamsU.S. First Lady Born: 12 February 1775 Died: 15 May
1852 Birthplace: London, England Best known as: The wife of U.S.
president John Quincy Adams Name at birth: Louisa Catherine
Johnson Louisa Adams was the wife of John Quincy Adams, the
sixth president of the United States. Her father was an American
consul to England, and in 1795 she met Adams, who was in London
on a diplomatic mission for the United States. They married in
1797. Louisa followed her husband as he served the United States
as a diplomat and a senator, and in the presidential election of
1824 she campaigned for him enthusiastically. But her reserved
nature and the awkward way her husband came to the presidency --
the U.S. Congress picked Adams rather than Andrew Jackson after
neither won a majority of electoral votes -- helped make the
couple's four years in the White House (1825-29) less than
festive. Louisa also had a tough time as a mother. She had
several miscarriages, her daughter died in infancy and she was
separated from two