Weddings & Divorces in History on March 17

Weddings in History

Eleanor & Franklin D. Roosevelt

1905 Eleanor Roosevelt (20) marries Franklin D. Roosevelt (23) later 32nd US President in New York, & given away by her uncle, 26th President Theodore Roosevelt

Alice Walker

1967 "The Color Purple" novelist Alice Walker (23) weds civil rights lawyer Melvyn Leventhal (23) in New York City; divorce in 1976

  • 2006 Publicist Lizzie Grubman (35) weds Chris Stern in New York