Politician Gretchen Whitmer has been married to Dr Marc Mallory since following her divorce from her first husband, Gary Shrewsbury. Details about her love life explored.
Gretchen Whitmer is an American lawyer and politician.
Whitmer is the first of three children, and her parents divorced when she was ten years old. She and her siblings moved with their mother to Grand Rapids, and their dad continued to visit them every week.
She got her high school certificate from the Forest Hills Central High School, and got her Law degree from the Michigan State University College of Law.
A member of the Democratic Party, she served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2001 to 2006 and in the Michigan Senate from 2006 to 2015.
In 2011, she became the Senate’s first female Democratic leader.
She serves currently as the governor of Michigan State; an office she assumed in 2019.
As governor, she has signed over 1,000 bipartisan bills and four balanced, bipartisan budgets to deliver on the kitchen-table issues, grow the economy, and create good-paying jobs in every region of the state.
Away from her works, she is a wife and has been married twice. She is currently in her second marriage to a medical practitioner. Details about her first and second husbands explored.
Who is Gretchen Whitmer married to?
Throughout her life, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer has been married twice but divorced once. Her first is Gary Shrewsbury and second and current is Dr Marc Mallory.
For her first marriage, there isn’t much information about it. Likewise, not much details is known about her first husband.
After becoming parents, Whitmer and Gary separated and he currently lives a private life.
Her second marriage to Dr Marc Mallory happened in 2011 – the same year she was voted in as Senate Democratic Leader. He was her dentist, they became friends and then became romantically involved.
The couple lives together about six miles from the Michigan capital.
Whitmer was previously married to Gary Shrewsbury but the couple divorced.
Dr Mallory became the first gentleman of Michigan when his wife won the 2018 Michigan gubernatorial election by nearly a ten-point margin.
As the Governor of Michigan, Whitmer handled the coronavirus pandemic beginning with a stay-at-home order in March 2020.
This order led to protests in May with demonstrators bearing a hanged doll representing the Governor.
Reports claim Mallory tried to use their boat during Memorial Day weekend despite his wife’s coronavirus lockdown restrictions.
Who is Dr Marc Mallory?
Dr. Marc Mallory is a professional dentist who started his own practice, Downtown Dental, in 1990.
Mallory, who is now 60, announced his retirement in December 2020 and made no mention of concerns about threats.
He is best known widely as Michigan State Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s husband, making him the First Gentleman of the state of Michigan, US.
Whitmer said her husband was planning on working 7-8 more years before retirement.
Dr. Marc was Gretchen Whitmer’s dentist, and they began dating after several appointments before they got married in 2011.
Mallory was born on 14 September 1960 to the family of Samuel and Susan Mallory in Lansing, Michigan. His father being a dental surgeon, Marc spent a lot of time helping out and learning the trade.
He grew up in Michigan alongside his siblings.
He had his high school education at the Sexton High School and graduated in 1978. He proceeded to get a Zoology degree from the Michigan State University in 1982. Following his first degree, Marc enrolled in the University of Michigan, where he obtained his degree as a Doctor of Dental Surgery in 1986.
Mallory enjoys travelling with his family and takes his physical fitness seriously, making him look way younger than his actual age.
Even despite been a politcian’s spouse, Mallory lived a quiet life until he was subjected to drama in 2020 which brought to the public’s eye. He became involved in the sensitive issue of abusing the power that his wife’s office held in May 2020.
This controversy arose on 26 May 2020, while businesses were slowly reopening, Dr. Marc Mallory tried using his position to jump the queue and get his boat in the water on a northern Michigan lake ahead of Memorial Day’s first weekend. This incident raised quite some dust, and didn’t bode well for the governor, his wife, especially as her office attempted to dismiss the matter and cover it up.
It inadvertently put the couple in the news for quite some time, ultimately attracting some attention to Mallory. It is because of this that his life has become something of interest to people, and thus, the need to dig into his personal life.
Before marrying Whitmer, he was married to Felicia Lindell, and they welcomed three sons together.
Together with Whitmer, the couple shares five children as the politician also has two daughters from her previous marriage to her first husband, Gary Shrewsbury.
He is estimated to have a net worth of around $4 million to $5 million, accumulated from his years of practising as a dentist.
Gretchen Whitmer’s political career has come with its share of controversies
Whitmer won election four years ago on a promise to “fix the damn roads.” She proposed a gas tax hike that was rejected by the Legislature and instead borrowed money through a $3.5 billion bond authorization for funds that can only be spent on state roads, not local ones.
She’s worked with the GOP-led Legislature to boost funding for public education, signed an auto insurance reform law that led to $400 rebate checks and agreed on plans to spend billions of dollars in federal COVID-19 relief and stimulus funds.
Whitmer says she’ll “fight like hell” to protect abortion access in Michigan, which is in jeopardy after the U.S. Supreme Court in June struck down Roe v. Wade. The governor took county prosecutors to court to prevent them from enforcing a 1931 abortion ban and is asking the Michigan Supreme Court to declare that law unconstitutional.
Despite a large state budget surplus, Whitmer has vetoed multiple GOP tax cut bills, including a $2.7 billion plan that would have cut the state’s personal income tax rate from 4.25 percent to 4 percent and created a child tax credit.
Whitmer has proposed her own tax relief plans, including one-time $500 rebate checks, expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit for lower income workers and broader exemptions for senior income.
Whitmer imposed a series of aggressive COVID-19 restrictions early in the pandemic, including stay-home, school closure and nursing home orders blasted by Republicans and some business groups. When the Michigan Supreme Court struck down her authority to issue orders, her administration used health department orders instead.
Whitmer campaigned on transparency, but her administration brokered confidentiality agreements with outgoing unemployment agency and health department directors that prohibited them from discussing billions of dollars in fraudulent benefit payments and thousands of nursing home deaths.
Missteps during the pandemic caused opponents to accuse her of hypocrisy, including flying on a private jet to Florida to visit her sick father at a time when her administration urged people not to travel and violating COVID-19 protocols by gathering with a large group at a bar.