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The first wedding of a child of a president in the White House. February 25, 1828: John Adams II (son of President John Quincy Adams) married his first cousin, Mary Catherine Hellen, in the Blue Room. The first wedding of a grandchild of a president at the White House (grandson of President John Adams).
Rob Roy MacGregor (1671–1734), Scottish outlaw, and his cousin Mary Helen MacGregor of Comar, who married in January 1693 [32] Gerardo Machado (1869–1939), fifth president of Cuba, and his first cousin, Elvira Machado Nodal [33] Maeda Toshiie (1538–1599), Japanese Daimyō in the 15th century, and his first cousin, Maeda Matsu (1547–1617)
Alice was another child from the President's previous marriage to his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee Roosevelt, who died in 1884 due to childbirth complications and Bright's disease. The President's fifth cousin, Franklin D. Roosevelt, would become the 32nd President of the United States in 1933. [2] 27 Family of William Howard Taft: March 4 ...
On January 1, 1772, Jefferson married his third cousin [47] Martha Wayles Skelton, the 23-year-old widow of Bathurst Skelton. [48] [49] She was a frequent hostess for Jefferson and managed the large household. Biographer Dumas Malone described the marriage as the happiest period of Jefferson's life. [50]
Returning to the U.S., she married her fifth cousin once removed, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, in 1905. Between 1906 and 1916 she gave birth to six children, one of whom died in infancy. The Roosevelts' marriage became complicated after Eleanor discovered her husband's affair with her social secretary, Lucy Mercer, in 1918.
In March 1915, the widow Galt was introduced to recently widowed U.S. President Woodrow Wilson at the White House by Helen Woodrow Bones (1874–1951). Bones was the president's first cousin and served as the official White House hostess after the death of Wilson's wife, Ellen Wilson. Wilson took an instant liking to Galt and proposed soon ...
On February 21, 1807, Van Buren married Hannah Hoes, his childhood sweetheart and a daughter of his first cousin, in Catskill, New York. [22] Hannah Hoes was the daughter of Johannes Dircksen Hoes (1753–1789), and Maria Quakenbush (1754–1852), who were of Dutch ancestry. [23]
Mary's half-sister Emilie Todd married Benjamin Hardin Helm, CSA general and son of the Kentucky Governor John L. Helm. Another half-sister Elodie Todd married CSA Brig. General Nathaniel H. R. Dawson, later the third U.S. Commissioner of Education. [71] [72] One of Mary Todd's cousins was Dakota Territory Congressman/US General John Blair ...