Great Moments in History #2

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:03pm

Who was THE FIRST U.S. President to be married twice?



GOOD LUCK, Everybody!!!

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:07pm

Hint #1: A small city in Northeast Texas.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:10pm

Hint #2: Liv _____.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:15pm

Hint #3: There are ___ Decades in a Century.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:20pm

Hint #4: Phoebe English _____ Wallingford Matthews Wallingford.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:25pm

Hint #5: Tippicanoe and _____ Too.

[MyNameInLights]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:28pm

John Tyler?

[One Song Glory]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:29pm

Theadore Roosevelt?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:31pm

Lights!

You saw right through me!!! -)


YES, John Tyler, our 10th President, was the FIRST President to marry twice.

His first wife, Letitia, an Invalid, died in 1842 while he was President.


Two years later, he married Julia Gardiner, a woman thirty years his junior!!!:


http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/jt10.html


WAY TO GO, Lights!


Now for your bonus points:


John Tyler had a QUITE UNIQUE relationship with his Political Party while he was President. What exactly happened?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:37pm

One Song Glory--I just saw your Post.


YES, T.R. was married twice, but Tyler (as Lights pointed out) was the FIRST U.S. President to have two wives. Sorry...

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:39pm

...I guess My Name in Lights had to step out.


So ANYONE on the Board may answer.


What was the QUITE UNIQUE relationship President Tyler had with his own Political Party while in Office?

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 7:45pm

Well, I guess we'll wrap this up a bit later.

[kjklo]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 9:01pm

Geeze, I can't resist. The Whigs expelled him from their party and attempted to impeach him.

[Mary_Ethel]

Posted: 9/17/05 at 9:20pm

Kj!


You know history as well as you know Theatre!!!



YES, when Tyler became President and began veoteoing ALL the legislation pushed through by the Whigs in Congress, the Whigs promptly had a National Convention, did NOT invite Tyler, and promptly expelled the President from his own Political Party!:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/jt10.html


You are ON TOP of it, Kj!



I guess I have to bestow prizes on BOTH Lights and Kj tonight--so here it is:


Your spouse will die after a long lingering illness, but please don't despair, a pretty young thing thirty years your junior is about to come into your life!


Make it an excellent weekend, folks!