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Presidential wedding quiz answers

1. 14.

2. At President Bush's ranch in Crawford, Texas.

3. Dorothy Bush, the daughter of former President George H.W. Bush. After divorcing her first husband, Dorothy was quietly married for the second time on June 26, 1992, at Camp David.

4. 21. Jenna Bush is the 22nd.

5. 22. Jenna Bush is 23. Elliot Roosevelt, son of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, married two times while his father was in office.

6. President Grover Cleveland. Presidents John Tyler and Woodrow Wilson also were married during their presidencies, but their wedding ceremonies were held elsewhere.

7. Oscar de la Renta.

8. Nine. The first was 17-year-old Maria Hester Monroe on March 9, 1820.

9. Her twin sister, Barbara Bush.

10. Tricia Nixon married Edward Cox in an elaborate Rose Garden ceremony in 1971 that boosted the popularity of her father, President Nixon.

11. Luci Baines Johnson, the youngest daughter of President Johnson, was married to Patrick Nugent at the National Shrine of Immaculate Conception in Washington, but had a reception at the White House that included a 300-pound cake decorated with swans.

12. John Adam II, son of John Quincy Adams. He was one of three brothers who were at one time engaged to the same young lady, Mary Hellen, their own first cousin.

Source: "All the President's Children" by Doug Wead.