The White House: Three-Ring Wedding

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*Marie Monroe's groom was Samuel Lawrence Gouverneur, her father's private secretary and scion of a distinguished New York clan; Elizabeth Tyler's groom was William Waller, a tobacco planter and lawyer; Nellie Grant's Algernon Charles Frederick Sartoris came from a wealthy British family; Alice Roosevelt's Nicholas Longworth was a Representative who later became House Speaker; Jessie Wilson's was Francis Bowes Sayre, a lawyer; Eleanor Wilson's was William Gibbs McAdoo, Secretary of the Treasury; and Anna Roosevelt's second husband was John Boet-tiger, a newspaper correspondent. *Whereby draft-eligible men may fulfill their military obligations by serving a few months on active duty and then participating in training sessions and summer encampments for a total of six years. During that time, their units may be mobilized at any time in case of local or national emergency.