With the 4th of July yesterday, we have to do a question on US History. Presidential wives have become a fixture in Presidential politics - in many respects, the First Lady is almost as well known as the President himself, with the First Lady's popularity frequently eclipsing the President's. However, one President, and one President only, never married. Off of Pocket Trivia: US History - Who is the only President to never marry? Was it James Buchanan, Woodrow Wilson, Grover Cleveland on John Tyler?
It wasn't Wilson - his first wife died in 1914 and he remarried in 1915 (while he was President). It wasn't Cleveland either - Cleveland entered the White House unmarried but married Frances Folsom in the White House in 1886. It wasn't John Tyler - Tyler's first wife died in 1842 (while Tyler was President), but he remarried later in 1842, making him the first President to be married in the White House.
The correct answer is James Buchanan. Buchanan was engaged to be married as a young man, but his fiance broke off the engagement shortly thereafter. Buchanan was rumored to be in a homosexual relationship with his friend and one-time housemate, William Rufus DeVane King, but those rumors were never substantiated
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