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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. OVERVIEW: BORN: October 15, 1872 Wytheville, Virginia. EDUCATION: Martha Washington College (1887) Richmond Female Seminary (1889) MARRIED: Norman Galt (m. 1896, d. 1908) Woodrow Wilson (m. 1915, d.1924) POLITICAL PARTY: Democrat. HIGHLIGHTS: 1896 ... President Wilson and Mrs. Edith Wilson at a baseball game on 10/9 ...
A happy, protected childhood and first marriage had prepared Edith Wilson for the duties of helpmate and hostess; widowhood had taught her something of business matters. Descendant of Virginia aristocracy, she was born in Wytheville in 1872, seventh among eleven children of Sallie White and Judge William Holcombe Bolling.
Discover Edith Bolling Wilson’s birthplace, family home, and presidential historic site in downtown Wytheville, Virginia. As one of only eight historic sites across the country dedicated to the interpretation of a First Lady, this museum tells the story of the overlooked, yet vitally important role Edith Bolling Wilson played in the White ...
She was born Edith Bolling in Wytheville, Virginia, the daughter of a judge. She attended Martha Washington College which was a finishing school for the daughters of the wealthy. She could trace her ancestry from Pocahontas. At the time of a first meeting with the bereaved President Woodrow Wilson, she was Edith Galt a widow.
Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, née en 1872 à Wytheville et morte en 1961 à Washington, D.C., en sa qualité de seconde épouse du 28 e président des États-Unis, Woodrow Wilson, est la Première dame des États-Unis du 18 décembre 1915 au 4 mars 1921.
Wilson, Edith Bolling (1872–1961)First lady of the United States who may have run the country between 1915 and 1921 . Name variations: Edith Bolling Galt; Edith Galt Wilson. Source for information on Wilson, Edith Bolling (1872–1961): Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia dictionary.
Edith White Bolling Wilson Gravesite. Fascinating details. She was given the nicknames “Mrs. President” and/ or “The Secret President” for the role she assumed in keeping the president’s health condition a secret and helping run the “Petticoat Government” after President Wilson suffered a stroke. Edith was the first ‘first lady ...
