Josephine Louis | |
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Born | Josephine Peters 1930 (age 93–94) |
Occupation | Heiress |
Spouse | John J. Louis, Jr. (widowed) |
Children | 3 |
Josephine Louis (born 1930) is an American billionaire heiress, the widow of John J. Louis, Jr., who served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
In 1953, Josephine Peters married John J. Louis, Jr.
As of August 2015, she had a net worth of $2.7 billion. [1]
She and John J. Louis, Jr had three children: [1]
Hortense Eugénie Cécile Bonaparte was Queen consort of Holland. She was the stepdaughter of Emperor Napoléon I as the daughter of his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais. Hortense later married Napoléon I’s brother, Louis Bonaparte, who had been made King of Holland, making her her stepfather’s sister-in-law. She was the mother of Napoléon III, Emperor of the French; Louis II of Holland; and Napoléon Louis Charles Bonaparte who died at the age of four. She also had an illegitimate son, Charles, Duke of Morny, with her lover, the Comte de Flahaut.
Joséphine Bonaparte was the first wife of Emperor Napoleon I and as such Empress of the French from 18 May 1804 until their marriage was annulled on 10 January 1810. As Napoleon's consort, she was also Queen of Italy from 26 May 1805 until the 1810 annulment. She is widely known as Joséphine de Beauharnais.
Allegheny Township is a township in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is part of the Johnstown, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 2,851 at the 2010 census, up from 2,498 at the 2000 census.
Freda Josephine Baker, naturalized as Joséphine Baker, was an American-born French dancer, singer, and actress. Her career was centered primarily in Europe, mostly in France. She was the first black woman to star in a major motion picture, the 1927 silent film Siren of the Tropics, directed by Mario Nalpas and Henri Étiévant.
Elizabeth Josephine Brawley Hughes was an advocate of women's rights in the United States West region. George W. P. Hunt described her as the Mother of Arizona.
Thérésa Cabarrus, Madame Tallien was a Spanish-born French noblewoman and socialite who became Princess of Chimay during her lifetime.
New Jersey's 2nd congressional district, based in Southern New Jersey, is represented by Republican Jeff Van Drew. He was first elected as a Democrat in 2018, but announced on December 19, 2019, that he would be switching parties. The district, which is New Jersey's largest geographically, is a Republican-leaning seat that has shifted to the right since the late 2010s.
Marie Joséphine of Savoy was a princess of France and countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular 'queen of France' when her husband assumed the title of king in 1795 upon the death of his nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, until her death. She was never practically queen, as she died before her husband actually became king in 1814.
The Bondwoman's Narrative is a novel by Hannah Crafts whose plot revolves around an escape from slavery in North Carolina. The manuscript was not authenticated and properly published until 2002. Scholars believe that the novel was written between 1853 and 1861. It is one of the first novels by an African-American woman, another is the novel Our Nig by Harriet Wilson, published in 1859, while an autobiography from the same time period is Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs, published in 1861.
Samuel Hitt Elbert was an attorney in the Nebraska Territory before settling in the Colorado Territory. He served as the second Secretary of the Territory of Colorado from 1862 to 1866 and he served as the sixth Governor of the Territory of Colorado from 1873 to 1874. After Colorado statehood, he was a justice of the Colorado Supreme Court from 1876 to 1888 and was chief justice from 1879 to 1882.
Louis Cameron "L. C." Hughes was an American newspaper editor, lawyer, union organizer, and politician who served as the eleventh Governor of Arizona Territory. A Gilded Age Democrat, he was an active supporter of women's suffrage and the temperance movement.
John Jeffry Louis Jr. was an American businessman and diplomat. He served as the United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom.
Jody Lawrance (born Nona Josephine Goddard; October 19, 1930 – July 10, 1986) was an American actress who starred in many Hollywood films during the 1950s through the early 1960s.
The Josephine Baker Story is an American television film that first aired on HBO on March 16, 1991. It stars Lynn Whitfield as Josephine Baker, who was an international African-American star, who was especially successful in Europe. The film was generally well received by critics and has become a success on home video and DVD. The original music score was composed by Georges Delerue.
Josephine Fellows Gomon was a social and political activist, mayoral secretary, labor leader and schoolteacher. She is noted for her contributions to Detroit, Michigan through city politics, civil service and activism.
Eleanor Josephine Macdonald was a pioneer American cancer epidemiologist and cancer researcher influenced and mentored by Edwin Bidwell Wilson and Shields Warren. One of the earliest proponents of the idea that cancer was a preventable disease. She established the first cancer registry in the United States in Connecticut.
Henrietta Johnson Louis was an American heiress.
John Jeffry Louis is the Chairman of Gannett Co, a board member of The Olayan Group and S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.; and chairman of the U.S./ U.K. Fulbright Commission.
Rose Marion Boylan, known professionally as Rose Marion, was a newspaper reporter for more than forty-six years in the St. Louis, Missouri, area.
Joséphine Bowes, Countess of Montalbo was a French-born actress, artist, collector and patron of the arts. She was married to fellow collector John Bowes, son of John Bowes, 10th Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne. She and her husband founded the Bowes Museum in Barnard Castle, Teesdale.