90-year-old US Senator Set To Wed Male Partner
- Jumai
- Apr 25, 2016
- 1 min read

The 90-year-old former senator will wed his 40-year-old lover on April 30. This is the senator’s second trial at marriage. His first wife, Clare died in January 1996 after 48 years together.

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, ” Wofford wrote in a moving New York Times op-ed. He also went on to narrate the tragic loss of his wife Clare Lindgren to leukemia in 1996, and beginning a new chapter of his life with Matthew Charlton – who is 50 years his junior.
Wofford, was a Pennsylvania senator from 1991 to 1995 and an adviser to Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.