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TIL two U.S. First Ladies remarried after the deaths of their President husbands. Frances Cleveland was 49 when she married Thomas Preston. She died 35 years later. Jackie Kennedy was 39 when she married Aristotle Onassis. He died 6 years later. Both are buried with their President husbands.

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