No US president was ever divorced while in office. In fact, only one president , Ronald Reagan was ever divorced at all and his divorce occurred 32 years before he ran for president. When he ran for president he had been married for 28 years to his second wife.
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Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren and Chester Arthur were widowers for their entire time in office and never remarried.
John Tyler, Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow Wilson became widowers while they were in office. Tyler and Wilson remarried before they left office. Harrison remarried after he left office.
Theodore Roosevelt suffered the death of his first wife but remarried before he became President.
John Adams, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and Herbert Hoover became widowers after they left office. Of these, only Fillmore took a second wife.
Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, and Chester Arthur was widowers while they took in office . John Tyler, Benjamin Harrison and Woodrow Wilson became widowers while they were in office.
John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson. They were both widowed ang got married during their terms. (But not to eachother)
The wives of Tyler and Wilson died while they were in office. Jackson's wife died while he was
president-elect but before he actually took office.
Two U.S. presidents have married while in office: Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson. Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in 1886 during his first term as president. Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915 during his second term as president.
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John Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt had well-documented love affairs while they were President. Woodrow Wilson had a very close female friend that he wrote to, but may have been faithful to his wife in the strict sense. Other presidents had affairs but I think they were all broken off by the time they were President.
Eight presidents have died in office. Obama is our 44th president. 8/44 = 18 percent.
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