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Edith Bolling Wilson. Edith White Bolling Galt Wilson (October 15, 1872 — December 28, 1961), second wife of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. She met the President in March 1915 and they married nine months later. Her husband had suffered a long illness.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election.
Wilson, Edith (1896–1981)African-American blues singer and vaudeville performer . Born Edith Goodall on September 6, 1896, in Louisville, Kentucky; died of a brain tumor on March 30, 1981, in Chicago, Illinois; daughter of Susan (Jones) Goodall (a housekeeper) and Hundley Goodall (a teacher); educated in public schools in Louisville until about age 14, and received private tutoring in music ...
May 3, 2024 · December 18, 1915. President Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling Galt, a native of Wytheville, marry at her home in Washington, D.C. It is the second marriage for both. 1916. President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson become the first presidential couple to travel abroad together. November 7, 1916.
The Rise of Edith Wilson. While this nation has yet to elect its first woman president—and though history has downplayed her role—just over a century ago a woman became the nation’s first acting president. In fact, she was born in 1872, and her name was Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. Rebecca Roberts, author of the new biography Untold Power ...
Edith’s central role in her husband’s presidency ultimately became her legacy. When Woodrow Wilson endured his second stroke in 1919, Edith took on the role of gatekeeper to the Oval Office. Insistent that her husband’s dire illness be kept secret, Edith safeguarded his condition from even his closest advisors and demanded that ALL ...
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, 1913. Courtesy: Library of Congress With war raging in Europe and his beloved wife Ellen dead, Woodrow Wilson was a lonely and unhappy man.
