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Identify the following presidents and future presidents:
1. His wife’s father performed their wedding ceremony.
2. His wife made him promise, before her death, never to remarry.
3. On their 50th wedding anniversary, he said that he thought marriage was preferable to celibacy. She said she thought "hanging and marriage were strongly assimilated."
4. They were married while she was still legally married to another man.
5. They eloped.
6. He was the first president to marry while in office.
7. After his death his widow dressed in mourning for the rest of her life.
8. He had the youngest bride of all presidents.
9. His parents refused to attend his wedding because the family of his betrothed owned slaves.
10. He was the only President whose wedding ceremony took place in the White House.
1.24. Love and Marriage
Identify the following presidents and future presidents:
1. His wife’s father performed their wedding ceremony. John Adams when he married Abigail Smith in 1764. [PW 13]
2. His wife made him promise, before her death, never to remarry. Thomas Jefferson never remarried after the death of his wife Martha Skelton Jefferson [PW 26].
3. On their 50th wedding anniversary, he said that he thought marriage was preferable to celibacy. She said she thought "hanging and marriage were strongly assimilated." John Quincy and Louisa Adams [PW 59].
4. They were married while she was still legally married to another man. Rachel and Andrew Jackson [PW 63-64]
5. They eloped. Anna Symmes and William Henry Harrison in 1795 [PW 73].
6. He was the first president to marry while in office. John Tyler married his second wife Julia Gardiner in 1844 in New York City. [AP 92] [married in office]
7. After his death his widow dressed in mourning for the rest of her life. James K. Polk’s wife Sarah [PW 101].
8. He had the youngest bride of all presidents. Andrew Johnson married 16 year old Eliza McCardle in 1827. [TWHT 120, AP 142-143]
9. His parents refused to attend his wedding because the family of his betrothed owned slaves. Ulysses S. Grant. His bride to be, Julia Dent, was from St. Louis, Missouri. [TWHT 120]
10. He was the only President whose wedding ceremony took place in the White House. Grover Cleveland in 1886 married Frances Folsom. [AP 181]