Weddings in History
Jefferson Davis
1835 Soldier and politician Jefferson Davis (27) weds Sarah Knox Taylor (21) in Louisville, Kentucky
Alexander Mackenzie
1853 Prime Minister of Canada Alexander Mackenzie (31) weds second wife Jane Sym
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
1872 Jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr (31) weds childhood friend Fanny Bowditch Dixwell
Linus Pauling
1923 Chemist Linus Pauling (22) weds Ava Helen Miller
- 1933 Vernon Presley marries Gladys Love Smith
Wedding of Interest
1950 US Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy (24) weds Ethel Skakel (22) at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church in Greenwich, Connecticut