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Our First Foreign-Born First Lady

WHY A PRESIDENT TRIED TO KEEP THEM FROM MARRYING

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MelaniaWith a new presidency underway, Americans are getting acquainted with a new first family.

That includes first lady Melania Trump, the former model who was born and raised in the former Yugoslavia (now Slovenia).

Believe it or not, she isn’t America’s first foreign-born first lady. Another woman claimed that distinction 192 years earlier.

This is her story. Continue reading