Melania Trump would be the 1st Immigrant to become a First Lady
Melania Knauss Trump
Melania Trump made the keynote address at the Republican National Convention. Melania was introduced by her husband Donald.
Melania, if her husband is elected President, would be the 1st legal immigrant First Lady. She would also be the second First Lady born outside of the United States.
Melania, formerly Melanija Knauss, was born on April 26, 1970 in Sevnica in southeastern Slovenia (formerly part of Yugoslavia). Melania became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001 and a naturalized citizen in 2006 under the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Act of 1952.
After becoming engaged in 2004, Donald Trump and Melania Knauss were married on January 22, 2005, at The Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception in the ballroom at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate. The event was attended by celebrities such as Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Rudy Giuliani, Heidi Klum, Star Jones, P. Diddy, Shaquille O’Neal, Barbara Walters, Conrad Black, Regis Philbin, Simon Cowell, Kelly Ripa, then-Senator Hillary Clinton, and former president Bill Clinton. At the reception, Billy Joel serenaded the crowd with “Just the Way You Are”.
Melania Trump would also be the second First Lady born outside of the United States.
According to the White House website:
Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams, Born in London, Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams was the wife of the sixth President, John Quincy Adams (1825-1829). She is the only First Lady to have been born outside of the United States.
… Louisa Catherine Adams 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.
Melania Trump, businesswoman and wife of the GOP nominee for President, spoke Monday, July 18, 2016, at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. Donald Trump introduced Melania after walking out to the song “We are the Champions” by Queen. Here are Melania Trump’s remarks at the Republican National Convention:
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The claim that Melania Trump would be the second first lady born outside the US is incorrect. Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Martha Jefferson to name some Kama were also born outside the United States. The United States didn’t exist at the time that these women were born, therefore they were not born in the US