The third First Spouse Gold Coins Series that was circulated in 2008 was of Andrew Jackson’s Liberty Gold Coins. The series was first circulated on August 8th that year by the United States Mint. Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States who took the office from 1829 until 1837. Before he took the over the Presidential Office from John Quincy Adams, he was a commander of the [...]
Born in the city of London in 1775 to an American father and an English mother, Louisa Adams was the first First Lady to be born outside the United States of America. As a child, Louisa Adams was mostly raised in Nantes and London, when her father was in service with the United States as a Consulate General in London. She also finished her education in France when her family [...]
The fifth first spouse to be immortalized on the First Spouse Gold Coins series is none other than Elizabeth Monroe, the first spouse of President James Monroe. Elizabeth Monroe was born Elizabeth Kortright in 1768 in New York City. She was married to the then James Monroe at the age of 17, before he was appointed by President George Washington as the United States Minister to France. Spending time in [...]
Dolley Madison, born Dolley Payne on May 20th, 1768, was the 4th first spouse of the President of the United States, James Madison. Dolley married James Madison who was then a Representative and the co-author of the Federalist essays, after she was widowed when her first husband, John Todd in 1790. The Dolley Madison First Spouse Gold Coins series was the fourth and last First Spouse Gold Coins release in [...]
Thomas Jefferson was the United States of America’s 3rd President who took the office after John Adams from the year 1801 to 1809. President Jefferson however became the United States’ President when he was already a widower for 19 years after the death of her wife, Martha, in 1782. To make the First Spouse Program in continuity, the 2005 Presidential $1 Coin Act concluded that a President who served in [...]