Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index Elizabeth Kortwright Monroe (1768 - September 23 1830) was the wife of US President James Monroe. She married Monroe, then a lawyer, when she was a beautiful girl of 17. Later, she intervened with French authorities to gain the release of Madame LaFayette, wife of the Marquis de Lafayette. [1] This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.