Both harry Truman and Bess Wallace knew each other since childhood even attending the same school together in Independence, Missouri. Truman courted Bess before joining the army in World War I and proposed to her in 1911 but she refused his proposal. Not to be discouraged, he proposed again in 1919 which she accepted and the couple was married on June 28th 1919 in the Trinity Episcopal Church, Independence, MO.
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Claudia Alta Taylor also known as ladybird was introduced to Lyndon Johnson when he was just an aspiring congressional candidate. The couple was married in St. Mark's Episcopal Church in San Antonio, Texas on 18th November, 1934. Ladybird Johnson was one of the shrewdest first ladies and a clever business woman. It was she who raised funds for Johnson’s presidential campaign investing in businesses that made them millionaires. Ladybird is also the recipient of a Presidential Medal of Freedom and the Congressional Gold medal, the highest civilian award.
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George Bush met Barbara Pierce when she was just 16 at a Christmas dance. After a brief courtship, they were engaged a year and a half later. As a navy torpedo bomber pilot, George Bush eve named three of his planes, “Barbara”. They were married on January 6th 1945 at the First Presbyterian Church in Rye, New York.
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Elizabeth “Betty” Bloomer divorced her first husband on grounds of excessive cruelty. It was soon after that she met Gerald Ford at a time he was to become a member of the house of US Representatives for the first among 13 times. They were married in the Grace Episcopal Church, Grand Rapids, MI, on October 15, 1948.
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Ronald Reagan Met Anne “Nancy” Robbins when she was an established actress who had even worked under contract for the likes of Metro Goldwyn Mayer. Before she met Reagan, Nancy dated actors like Clark Gable, Peter Lawford and Robert Stack. When she met Reagan, they dated for three years before marrying in the Little Brown Church in the Valley, Los Angeles, CA, March 4, 1952.
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