Rhode Island Sen. Jack Reed married Julia Hart in a ceremony at the U.S. Military Academy, the senator's alma mater.

The 55-year-old Democrat, a former Army Ranger, wed 39-year-old Hart on Saturday in a ceremony officiated by the Rev. Raymond Malm of St. Michael's Church in Providence, R.I.

Reed met Hart on a trip to Afghanistan in 2002 — she is a coordinator in the office that handles the Senate's international travel and other contact with foreign governments.

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They didn't begin dating until the next year after a chance meeting in Rhode Island.

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