Mitch McConnell and Elaine Lan Chao – Together Since 1993
In the U.S. political scene, Mitch and Elaine make for one of the most powerful couples. McConnell was the U.S. Senate Majority Leader and Chao, the Secretary of Transportation. They met via a mutual friend, Stuart Bloch and Julia Chang Bloch, in the 1990s and started dating soon after. On the birthday of Ronald Reagan, the couple tied the knot.
The U.S. Senate Majority Leader, Mitch, hailed from Alabama and Kentucky. In 1985, he was the senior senator who represented the Republican Party. During the Trump administration, the Senate Republican majority had confirmed several federal court judges during the first two years of the President.
Elaine is a member of the Republican Party, who served as the 18th Secretary of Transportation from 2017 to 2021. The couple complements each other well and has stayed together, through the thicks and thins of life.