President Married In Office
Presidents who married while in office.
President married in office. Which gives us a great idea. Three presidents got married while in office john tyler grover cleveland and woodrow wilson. Cleveland entered the white house as a bachelor and left a married man and father of two.
Both john tyler and woodrow wilson were widowers and grover cleveland was the only bachelor. I am aware that james buchanan and maybe abraham lincoln have been in the oval office before. This marriage was unusual because cleveland was the executor of oscar folsom s estate and had supervised frances s upbringing after her father s death.
He was the second president to wed while in office and has been the only president to marry in the white house. It s obviously a play on clinton being the first black president. She served as the 23rd and 25th first lady of the united states.
Nevertheless the public took no exception to the match. President grover cleveland becomes the first sitting president to marry in the white house on june 2 1886. John tyler march 29 1790 january 18 1862 tenth president 1841 1845 was the first president to get married while in office grover cleveland was the second president to marry while in office.
She served as first lady from 1915 to 1921. Frances clara folsom cleveland became the youngest first lady at age 21 as the first woman to marry a president in the white house. After the president suffered a severe stroke she pre screened all.