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White House Wedding
White House Wedding, 1906

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On February 21, 1906 Theodore Roosevelt’s oldest daughter Alice, was married in an elaborate White House ceremony. Alice had just turned 22. The bridegroom was Nicholas Longworth, a junior congressman from Ohio. Nineteen years later, Longworth would become Speaker of the House, serving until his death in 1931. Today, one of the House Office Buildings on Capitol Hill is named in his honor.

Longworth was something of a playboy and the marriage was a rocky one. Alice remained in Washington after her husband’s death becoming a fixture of local society and often described as “Washington’s other monument.” She died in 1980 at age 96.

However, on this day, all of this was in the future. Alice was resplendent in her white satin dress trimmed with lace handed down from her mother who had died at her birth. Just before this photo was taken, her train was carefully arranged by Alice’s cousin and future President – Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

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