Edith Wilson

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Edith Wilson
Edith Wilson, oil painting by Adolfo Müller-Ury (1862–1947)

Edith White Bolling Galt Wilson (born October 15, 1872 in Whyteville , Virginia as Edith White Bolling , †  December 28, 1961 in Washington, DC ) was the second wife of US President Woodrow Wilson and the First Lady of the USA from December 18 1915 to March 4, 1921.

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She was the seventh of the eleven children of the judge William Holcombe Bolling (1837-1899) and his wife Sarah "Sallie" Spears White (1843-1925). When she was fifteen, she attended Martha Washington College in Abingdon to study music. She spent her sophomore year in Richmond , Virginia.

On April 30, 1896, she married the jeweler Norman Galt, born in 1862, who died on January 28, 1908. From this marriage came a nameless son, who was born and died in 1903.

In her second marriage, she married the President on December 18, 1915 in Washington. After he suffered a stroke in October 1919, she supported him for a long time in dealing with important state affairs; she was not without controversy in this position, but refused a takeover by the vice president.

Fonts

  • My memoir . Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis 1939

literature

  • Alden Hatch: Edith Bolling Wilson. First Lady Extraordinary . Dodd, Mead & Company, New York 1961.
  • Sheri Lynn Zuber: Edith Wilson. The Secret President . Cobblestone March 1992.
  • James Giblin: Edith Wilson. The Woman Who Ran the United States . Puffin, New York 1993, ISBN 0-670-83005-4 (illustrated by Michele Laporte).
  • Lewis L. Gould: American First Ladies. Their Lives and Their Legacy . Routledge, New York 2001, ISBN 0-415-93021-9 (EA New York 1996).
  • Phyllis L. Levin: Edith and Woodrow. The Wilson White House . Scribner, New York 2001, ISBN 0-7432-1158-8 .
  • James S. McCallops: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson. The Unintended President . Nova History Publications, New York 2002, ISBN 1-59033-556-2 .
  • Barbara Klaczynska: Edith Wilson: The First Lady in Charge. In Katherine AS Sibley (Ed.): A Companion to First Ladies. Wiley-Blackwell, Chichester 2016, ISBN 978-1-118-73222-9 , pp. 357-378.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpts from it were preprinted in The Saturday Evening Post under the title As I saw it .

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personal data
SURNAME Wilson, Edith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bolling Galt Wilson, Edith (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American first lady
DATE OF BIRTH October 15, 1872
PLACE OF BIRTH Whyteville , Virginia
DATE OF DEATH December 28, 1961
Place of death Washington, DC