MARRIAGE POLITICS TRIVIA

Marriage Politics Trivia

Who Was the First Divorced President?

When Reagan became President, he had the distinction of being the only divorced person to assume the nation's highest office; Donald Trump (2 divorces) would follow him in that respect 36 years later.

Source: Wikipedia.

How Many Bachelors Have Been Elected President?

James Buchanan, the 15th President of the United States (1857-1861), served immediately prior to the American Civil War. He remains the only President to be elected from Pennsylvania and to remain a lifelong bachelor.

Source: White House.

Who was the Only President to Hold a PhD?

The only president to earn a Ph.D was Thomas Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924. Wilson graduated from Princeton University (then called the College of New Jersey) in 1879 and went on to attend law school at the University of Virginia.Oct 9, 2016.

Source: Wikipedia.

heterodox

Heterodox, an adjective, was Merriam-Webster's word of the day on Nov. 22, 2019. It's pronounced: HET-uh-ruh-dahks.

Definition
1 : contrary to or different from an acknowledged standard, a traditional form, or an established religion : unorthodox, unconventional

2 : holding unorthodox opinions or doctrines

Did you know?
It's true: individuals often see other people's ideas as unconventional while regarding their own as beyond reproach. The antonyms orthodox and heterodox developed from the same root, Greek doxa, which means "opinion." Heterodox derives from doxa plus heter-, a combining form meaning "other" or "different"; orthodox pairs doxa with orth-, meaning "correct" or "straight."

Example
"His heterodox moves have been the ones requiring most careful explanation on social media. He bucks his party in not voting for measures he supports … because he disagrees with the underlying legislative approach." 
— Isaac Stanley-Becker and Felicia Sonmez, The Washington Post, 20 May 2019

"Why, you're ashamed to buy my book, ashamed to read it: the only thing you're not ashamed of is to judge me for it without having read it; and even that only means that you're ashamed to have heterodox opinions." 
— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, 1903

Read more at Merriam-Webster.

Thirty percent of America's married couples are in a "polar marriage" 

Research suggests that partisans are increasingly avoiding members of the other party—in their choice of neighborhood, social network, even their spouse. Leveraging a national database of voter registration records, Eitan Hersh and Yair Ghitza analyzed 18 million households in the U.S. They find that three in ten married couples have mismatched party affiliations. They discovered "that voter turnout is correlated with the party of one’s spouse. A partisan who is married to a co-partisan is more likely to vote. This phenomenon is especially pronounced for partisans in closed primaries, elections in which non-partisan registered spouses are ineligible to participate."

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