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Pedro Aguirre Cerda (1879–1941), Chilean president, and his first cousin, ... Indian translators and scholars, were first cousins and a married couple.
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.
By the late 19th century, the Hyde Park Roosevelts were generally associated with the Democratic Party and the Oyster Bay Roosevelts with the Republicans. President Theodore Roosevelt, an Oyster Bay Roosevelt, was the uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, later wife of Franklin Roosevelt. Despite political differences that caused family members to ...
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]
Two other presidents were related by blood: James Madison and Zachary Taylor were second cousins. Other presidents were related by marriage: George Washington's nephew, George Steptoe Washington, was Madison's brother-in-law. Dwight Eisenhower's grandson, David Eisenhower, married Julie Nixon, a daughter of Richard Nixon.
Data on cousin marriage in the United States are sparse. It was estimated in 1960 that 0.2% of all marriages between Roman Catholics were between first or second cousins, but no more recent nationwide studies have been performed. [177] It is unknown what proportion of that number were first cousins, which is the group facing marriage bans.
All three cousins have consistently refused to speak to the media. Speaking to the BBC in 2017 after Donald Trump's first presidential victory, John A MacIver, a local councillor and friend of the ...
Several presidents were unmarried for all or part of their administration. Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, Chester A. Arthur, and Martin Van Buren were widowed prior to becoming president and remained unmarried during their administration; in these cases, family members acted in the place of First Lady and White House host.