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Weddings of Presidents' Kids

A list of 23 weddings of presidential children married during their father’s presidency.  Children married in the White House are underlined:

Maria Hester Monroe    March 9, 1820     Samuel L. Gouverneur
John Adams II     Feb. 25, 1828     Mary Catherine Hellen
Andrew Jackson Jr.     Nov. 24, 1831     Sarah Yorke
Abraham Van Buren     Nov. 27, 1838     Angelica Singleton
Elizabeth Tyler     Jan. 31, 1842      William Nevison Waller
Nellie Grant     May 21, 1874     Algernon Charles Satoris
Frederick Grant     Oct. 20, 1874     Ida Marie Honore
Alice Roosevelt     Feb. 17, 1906     Rep. Nicholas Longworth
Jessie Wilson     Nov. 25, 1913     Frances Bowes Sayre
Eleanor Wilson      May 7, 1914     William Gibbs McAdoo
Anna Roosevelt     Jan. 1935     John Boettiger
Elliot Roosevelt     July 22, 1933     Ruth Googins
FDR, Jr.     June 30, 1937     Ethel duPont
John Roosevelt     June 18, 1938     Anne Lindsay Clark
James Roosevelt     April 14, 1941     Romelle Schneider
Elliot Roosevelt     Dec. 3, 1944     Faye Emerson
Luci Baines Johnson     Aug. 6, 1966     Patrick John Nugent
Lynda Bird Johnson     Dec. 9, 1967     Charles Spittal Robb
Tricia Nixon     June 12, 1971     Edward Ridley Finch Cox
Maureen Reagan     April 25, 1981     Dennis Revell
Patti Davis     Aug. 14, 1984     Paul Grilley
Dorothy Walker Bush     June 26, 1992     Robert Koch
Jenna Bush     May 10, 2008     Henry Hager

Note: Julie Nixon married David Eisenhower after her father was elected president but before his inauguration. The Dorothy Bush wedding took place at the presidential retreat at Camp David.
Copyright 2008 Doug Wead

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