Since then pensions have been granted to nine other Presidential widows—Julia Gardiner Tyler, Sarah Childress Polk, Julia Dent Grant, Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, Ida Saxton McKinley, Edith Carow ...

Tyler's social life provoked scandal — just months after the death of his first wife, he married Julia Gardiner, who at 22 was thirty years his junior and younger than some of his children.

last week. During his Presidential term (1841-45) sturdy, self-willed John Tyler lost his first wife and, at 54, married 22-year-old Julia Gardiner, a Roman Catholic. To this union, when John ...