From House House Divided site.
As I was writing about this woman in my last post, I couldn't help but think she might have been considerably younger than Stephen Douglas.
Rose Adele Cutts was a famous Washington beauty (also, I have to think that Douglas wasn't particularly handsome) and valuable second wife to Stephen Douglas. She was born in Washington, D.C., on December 27, 1835. She was the daughter of James Madison Cutts, nephew of former first lady Dolley Madison, and Eleanora O'Neale, from a prominent Maryland Catholic family.
Tall with chestnut hair and a universally proclaimed beauty. Addie (as she was called) grew up under tutelage of her great aunt, Dolley Madison, and could not help but become a poised and popular figure with a political mind.
Then, her husband-to-be , Stephen A. Douglas stood 5 feet 4 inches and could be described as being somewhat pudgy.
So, how did this match come to be? Was she a "Trophy Wife?"
--Old Secesh
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