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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President Grover Cleveland became the first and only president to be married in the White House on June 2, 1886.
John Tyler was the first to be married while he was president, but the wedding did not take place in the White House.
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, and the only President to get married in the White House itself. Woodrow Wilson also remarried while in office.)
John Tyler, Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilsonwere the only three Presidents who got married during their term in office. Only Cleveland was married in a White House ceremony. Cleveland was a bachelor when he took office, but Tyler and Wilson both lost their first wives to death and remarried while they were in office.
John Adams was the first President in the White House and he was married while he lived there. Grover Cleveland was the only President to hold his wedding in the White House.
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6 were unmarried when they took office. Buchanan never married. Cleveland took a wife while he was president. Jefferson, Jackson, Van Buren and Chester Arthur were widowers when they became president and never remarried. Tyler, Benjamin Harrison and Wilson lost their wives while they were president .
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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