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Show Marries Wife Twice Jackson married Rachael Robards in Natchez, Miss., in the summer of 1791, believing that the legisla- ( ture in Virginia had granted her husband hus-band a divorce, instead, as was the case, of a mere permission to bring suit for divorce. The suit was not brought until 1793 and the divorce was granted on the grounds that, technically, Robards' wife was unlawfully living with Jackson as his wife. Jackson immediately procured pro-cured another license and had another an-other ceremony performed in 1794. There is no evidence that Jackson's wife was unfaithful, or that Jackson was not acting in good faith in the honest belief that a divorce had been granted. Nevertheless, as a lawyer he should have known that the Virginia Vir-ginia legislature did not grant divorces di-vorces at that time, but only gave permission for a suit to be brought in the proper court. The incident was used mercilessly by the partisan parti-san pres in the presidential campaign cam-paign of 1828, but the result shows that those who knew Jackson ba lieved in his honesty. |