Drawing of the Cleveland's wedding at the White House in June 1886

Grover Cleveland Wedding Causes Uproar

The Grover Cleveland wedding shocked Victorian America in 1886 when the president married his former law partner’s 21-year-old daughter in the first White House presidential wedding ceremony. The Bachelor President’s Surprising Choice Grover Cleveland entered the White House in 1885 as America’s first unmarried president since James Buchanan. The rotund former Buffalo mayor had built…

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