Former Sen. Harris Wofford has announced Sunday that he was getting remarried at 90 — this time to a man.
The Pennsylvania Democrat is to be married this coming Saturday. Wofford was married from 1948 to 1996 to Claire Lindgren, before her death from leukemia. Wofford announced his love in a New York Times op-ed published in the paper Sunday.
“I don’t categorize myself based on the gender of those I love,” he wrote. “I had a half-century of marriage with a wonderful woman, and now am lucky for a second time to have found happiness.”
“To some, our bond is entirely natural, to others it comes as a strange surprise, but most soon see the strength of our feelings and our devotion to each other,” he wrote of his companion. “We have now been together for 15 years.”
After holding various Democratic posts Wofford was appointed to a Senate seat in 1991 by former Pennsylvania Gov. Robert Casey following the death of Sen. John Heinz in a plane crash. Wofford was defeated for re-election in the 1994 “Republican Revolution” by Rick Santorum.
Santorum is a staunch social conservative, who earned derision from gay rights advocates over his staunch opposition to gay marriage in the Senate and in his two presidential campaigns.
