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Anthony Weiner - After denying he sent lewd photos of himself to women using Twitter, Rep. Anthony Weiner admitted that he did indeed send the image. He apologized to his wife and said he wouldn't resign his position as a Democratic representative for New York. (Photo: Win McNamee/Getty Images)

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Arnold Schwarzenegger - Arnold Schwarzenegger’s admission that he had a child out of wedlock is only the latest example of married male politicians behaving badly.  He and Maria Shriver are now separated. BET.com takes a look a host of men who should have known better.(Photo: Brian Baer-Pool/Getty Images)

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 Sen. Larry Craig - In one of the more bizarre incidents in recent political history, former Idaho Sen. Larry Craig was arrested in 2007 for lewd conduct in a men’s bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport. When the scandal broke, Craig refused to resign and served out his Senate term in 2008. He is still married to Suzanne Craig.

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Jesse Jackson, Sr. - Talk of affairs have long swirled around Rev. Jesse Jackson, who was Washington, D.C.’s “shadow senator” for six years. In 1999 he admitted to fathering a child out of wedlock with a staffer. Jackson and his wife, Jackie, married in 1962, are still together.

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Sen. David Vitter - The very model of a faithful political wife is Wendy Vitter who forgave husband David Vitter, a member of the U.S. Senate from Louisiana, after his name was found among those of clients of a Washington D.C. prostitution service. They are still married.

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Eliot Spitzer - Eliot Spitzer lost his governorship, and with it, perhaps, a dreamed of run for the presidency, but managed to keep his marriage with spouse, Silda, after it was revealed he had hired a call girl on multiple occasions. (Photo: Scott Wintrow/Getty Images)

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Kwame Kilpatrick - The affair that Kwame Kilpatrick had with his chief of staff wasn’t the scandal that ended his time as Detroit’s mayor. His guilt in a federal racketeering scheme did. Kilpatrick’s tawdry sex-filled texts brought joy to comedians nationwide and alternately titillated and depressed Motor City residents. (Photo: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

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Mark Sanford - In 2009, now ex-South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford made a secret trip to Buenos Aires to tryst with his Argentine lover aka his “soul mate.”  The state legislature and voters were not amused.  Neither was his wife, Jenny, who divorced him in 2010. (Photo: Davis Turner/Getty Images)

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James McGreevey - James McGreevey began the affair with another man that ended his marriage, and his tenure as New Jersey’s  governor,  in 2002 little more than a month after taking office. Since leaving office, he has been divorced by his wife, Dina, and acknowledged his life as a “proud gay American.” (Photo: Stephen Lovekin/Getty Images)

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John Edwards - In 2008 presidential election candidate John Edwards, finally admitted that he had an affair, and a child, with a media staffer. His now deceased wife, Elizabeth, who died of cancer, separated from Edwards two years later.

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David Paterson - On his first day as New York governor, David Paterson admitted that he had multiple affairs as a married man. In fact, he and his wife had each admitted affairs to the press days earlier. The former Lt. governor assumed the top job when Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigned after his infidelities became public.

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Bill Clinton - The marriage of Bill and Hillary Clinton survived many turbulent events. The most publicly- embarrassing was his late 1990s globally covered affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton served his term and his marriage has remained intact, at least on the surface. (Photo: Jeff Fusco/Getty Images)