Marriage and Family
On December 5, 1848, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, he married Zachary Taylor's youngest daughter, Mary Elizabeth (1824-1909) (called "Miss Betty"), after Taylor's election as president.
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Famous quotes containing the words marriage and/or family:
“Honor, riches, marriage blessing,
Long continuance, and increasing,
Hourly joys be still upon you!
Juno sings her blessings on you.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.”
—Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt (1767–1835)