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March 9, 1820: Maria Hester Monroe (daughter of President James Monroe) married her first cousin, Samuel L. Gouverneur. 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.
November 4: Barack Obama is elected U.S. president. November 4 – 2008 United States presidential election: Democratic U.S. Senator Barack Obama is elected as the 44th president of the United States and U.S. Senator Joe Biden is elected the 47th vice president. Barack Obama becomes the first African-American president-elect. [53] [54] [55]
Mary Elizabeth Anania Edwards (July 3, 1949 – December 7, 2010) was an American attorney, author, and health care activist. She was married to John Edwards , the former U.S. Senator from North Carolina who was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in the 2004 U.S. presidential election .
Queen of Sikkim San Francisco, California: King Palden Thondup Namgyal: Kingdom of Sikkim: March 20, 1963 – 1980 (divorce) [14] [23] [24] Lisa Halaby: Queen Noor of Jordan: Princeton, New Jersey: Hussein of Jordan: Jordan: June 15, 1978 – February 7, 1999 (his death) [14] [15] [16] Alexandra Miller Princess Alexandra von Fürstenberg: New ...
Anne Legendre Armstrong (December 27, 1927 – July 30, 2008) was a United States diplomat and politician.She was the first woman to serve as Counselor to the President and as United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom, serving in those capacities under the Nixon, Ford, [1] and Carter administrations.
Freddie Mercury’s former fiancée, Mary Austin, remained one of his closest friends until his death. The iconic Queen frontman met Austin in 1969, a year before the band formed. After dating for ...
By the time Obama was elected as President of the United States on November 4, 2008, Bush's approval rating was in the low to mid 20s and his disapproval grew increasingly significant, being in the high 60s, and even low 70s in some polls. [77] Polls consistently showed that his approval ratings among American voters had averaged around 30 percent.
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