Two Presidents married their First Ladies this day in history

   Marriage, a part of a person’s life where in you commit to be one with a chosen partner. This day is remembered not only by Americans, but by some who knows about dates and all other details of the biography of the U.S presidents. 

On this day in 1810, at age 26, Zachary Taylor the 12 president of the United States married his wife named Margaret Smith aged 31. Smith met Taylor in 1809 when Taylor was an Army officer. A couple of years later, they have produced 6 children. And some of their children made their own names, one was their son Richard who later in his life became a general in the Confederate Army. And their daughter married a well known man in the name of President Jefferson Davis the future confederate president. According to some historians, during the presidency of Taylor, they noted that his wife was not happy, that she let her daughter Mary do the White House duties instead of her.

A century and 30 years later the same day, another President married the other half of his life. He is Richard Milhous Nixon the 37^th president of the United States.  The name of the woman was Patricia Ryan, which is known to some as a very supportive wife all the way into the entire presidential term of Nixon. They had 2 daughters namely Julie and other one named after her mother, Patricia.  During Nixon’s political career, he was squashed by lots of interventions, especially the Watergate scandal. His re-election committee was implicated into criminal activities Democratic Party candidates and other organizers. Because of this scandal, this leads the Congress to have some proceedings in it. His family supported him until his resignation in 1974, which Nixon decided to leave voluntarily.

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The death of the 11th president of the United States

Today I’m going to tackle about an American political figure and in my own view for this president, he is one of the least known president in US history. But he gained a reputation for his territorial expansion of the nation chiefly through the Mexican-American War.  He is James Knox Polk the 11^th president of the most powerful country in the world. He was born around 1795 and graduated with honors in 1818 from the University of North Carolina.  Leaving his law practice behind, he served in the Tennessee legislature, where he became friends with Andrew Jackson the 7^th president. Polk moved from the Tennessee legislature to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1825 to 1839 (and serving as speaker of the House from 1835 to 1839). He left his congressional post to become governor of Tennessee.

James Polk took office on March 4, 1845—and, at 49 years of age, he became the youngest president in American history. Before Polk took the oath of office, Congress offered annexation to Texas, and when they accepted and became a new state, Mexico severed diplomatic relations with the United States and tensions between the two countries escalated. He continued serving as president until March 4, 1849. Since that time Pres. Polk’s health deteriorated he began to lose a lot of weight, due to a suspected cholera contraction during his good will visit in New Orleans. Because of that he died on June 15, 1849 exactly 166 years ago today.

Polk had the shortest retirement of all Presidents at 103 days. He was the youngest former president to die in retirement at the age of 53. Along with George Washington, Andrew Johnson, Chester A. Arthur, Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon B. Johnson, he is one of six presidents to have died while his direct successor was in office.

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