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Julia Gardiner Tyler. The darling of the capital, Julia Gardiner Tyler was the second wife of the tenth President, John Tyler. She became First Lady from 1844 to 1845 after their secret engagement and wedding. “I grieve my love a belle should be,” sighed one of Julia Gardiner’s innumerable admirers in 1840; at the age of 20 she was ...
Julia Gardiner Tyler. The darling of the capital, Julia Gardiner Tyler was the second wife of the tenth President, John Tyler. She became First Lady from 1844 to 1845 after their secret engagement and wedding. "I grieve my love a belle should be," sighed one of Julia Gardiner's innumerable admirers in 1840; at the age of 20 she was already ...
16 de nov. de 2009 · Fifty-four year old widower President John Tyler marries 21-year-old Julia Gardiner on June 26, 1844. It was his second marriage. At the time, Julia was the youngest first lady in history.
Julia und John Tyler hatten zusammen sieben Kinder, darunter den Sohn David Gardiner Tyler (1846–1927), der zwischen 1893 und 1897 den Staat Virginia im US-Repräsentantenhaus vertrat. Julia schrieb eine Verteidigung der amerikanischen Sklaverei unter dem Titel The Women of England vs. the Women of America (Die Frauen Englands gegen die Frauen Amerikas).
Julia Tyler Gravesite. Fascinating details. John Tyler’s first wife, Letitia Christian Tyler, served as first lady until she passed away in the White House in 1842. She is the first ‘first lady’ to marry a president during his term in the White House. Julia married John Tyler while he was an incumbent one-term president and thus did not ...
Julia Gardiner Tyler was just 22-years-old when she moved into the White House as the First Lady of the United States. While she wasn’t the youngest woman to hold the role – that was Frances Folsom Cleveland, who was 21 when she married President Grover Cleveland in 1886 – she was still arguably out of her depth and surrounded by older, more-powerful men.
Julia, her sister Margaret, and her father joined a Presidential excursion on the new steam frigate Princeton; and David Gardiner lost his life in the explosion of a huge naval gun. Tyler comforted Julia in her grief and won her consent to a secret engagement. The first President to marry in office took his vows in New York on June 26, 1844.
