U.S. News: Former U.S. Senator Harris Wofford Announces Plans to Marry a Man
In what could be one of the most revealing story yet in his life, former Pennsylvania senator Harris Wofford announced that he will finally be married almost 20 years after his wife Clare passed away - this time, he is marrying a man.
In an op-ed for the New York Times released on Sunday, Wofford wrote of the love story that brought him to such a decision. "At age 70, I did not imagine that I would fall in love again and remarry. But the past 20 years have made my life a story of two great loves," he wrote.
The former politician went on to share that when he met the man he is going to marry in a couple of days, he realized that he never felt the same love other than how he felt for his late wife.
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According to CNN, Clare passed away in 1996 after a fierce battle with leukemia and in his Times letter, the now 90-year-old Wofford said he thought at that time that he was too old to find another love. Five years later, he met Matthew Charlton, then 25, on a beach in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
He clarified, though, that while he is lucky to have found love a second time around, he had "a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman." His children three children whom he shares with Clare have all approved of the marriage.
According to People, Wofford was once the Coordinator of Federal Civil Rights Policy under president John F. Kennedy. In 1991, he became a senator in Pennsylvania and was in office until 1995. After bidding the Senate goodbye and sending off his dear wife, life treated him well and he will marry Charlton on April 30.
For Wofford, he feels lucky to have lived in an age where the Supreme Court, given the blessing from President Barack Obama, allows marriage "based on love" and not on a person's sexual identity.
