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No good picture, but I loved this description:

Nellie Grant

Library of Congress In 1874, Nellie Grant, the only daughter of President Ulysses S. Grant, was married to Englishman Algernon Sartoris in the first high profile American wedding.

Grant, who worshipped his daughter, had his eyes to the floor and wept throughout the ceremony.

Somehow, I never imagined GENERAL US Grant, conquerer of the South, to be an emotional man.

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One President even got married in the White House himself.

Did he propose by saying, "I've got a perfect match: my fat belly and your fat *ss"?

Of course, not, because he was a gentleman and would have known that her large posterior was only a bustle (though his fat belly was quite real).

It does look like he got to the wedding cake before everyone else, though.

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It’s amazing how emotional men were back then.