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:
“Always the same old story
Father Time and Mother Earth,
A marriage on the rocks.”
—James Merrill (b. 1926)
“In the family sandwich, the older people and the younger ones can recognize one another as the bread. Those in the middle are, for a time, the meat.”
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