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How many U.S. First Ladies have been married more than once?

Question #135702. Asked by Joepetz.
Last updated May 07 2014.
Originally posted May 06 2014 9:53 AM.

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Frances Cleveland married Thomas Preston jr after Grover's death.
link http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/first-ladies/francescleveland

Edith Wilson was married to Norman Galt, a jewelry store owner. She married Woodrow 7 years after Galt's death.
link http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=29

Jackie Kennedy married Aristotle Onassis after the presidents assassination. She outlived him.
link http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=36

From what I could find, those three were the only First Ladies to have been married more than once.

May 06 2014, 10:37 AM
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The first First Lady, Martha Washington.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martha_Washington

May 06 2014, 11:13 AM
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Betty Ford was married and divorced before marrying Gerald Ford.

link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_Ford#Early_life_and_career

May 06 2014, 3:14 PM
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I'd like to add:

"Florence "Flossie" King DeWolfe, a divorcee with one son, married Warren Harding, five years her junior in 1891."

"Rachel Jackson, Andrew Jackson's wife was a bigamist, having married Jackson before she was divorced from her first husband. She died after Jackson was elected president but before his inauguration."

link http://www.firstladies.org/didyouknow.aspx

May 06 2014, 5:32 PM
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May 07 2014, 11:43 AM
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