A former historic bank building in Wytheville, located on Main Street, was dedicated to the First Lady and bears her name
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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson
Edith Wilson was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 as the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She married the widower Wilson in December 1915, during his first term as president. Edith Wilson played an influential role in President Wilson's administration following the severe stroke he suffered in October 1919. For the remainder of her husband's presidency, she managed the off…
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politics · First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 · politician · also Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, Edith Wilson, Edith Bolling Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt, Wilson
Born 15 October 1872 · Died 28 December 1961 · Q255169
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1961· 1 entry
Died 1961-12-28.
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1945· 1 entry
Attended Roosevelt's funeral at the White House
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1941· 1 entry
The day after Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D
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1939· 1 entry
Edith Wilson justified her self-proclaimed role of presidential "steward", arguing that her actions on behalf of Woodrow Wilson's presidency were sanctioned by Wilson's doctors; that they told her to do so for her husban
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1921· 2 entries
Edith, acting in a role she later described as a "stewardship", decided who and which communications and matters of state were important enough to bring to the bedridden president
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Joe Tumulty (Wilson's chief of staff) wrote: "No public man ever had a more devoted helpmate, and no wife a husband more dependent upon her sympathetic understanding of his problems
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1919· 1 entry
Woodrow Wilson returned to the United States to campaign against strong non-interventionist sentiment for the ratification of the peace treaty and of the League of Nations Covenant
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1918· 1 entry
And 1919, to visit troops and to sign the Treaty of Versailles
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1915· 1 entry
Career landmark: First Lady of the United States (1915–1921).
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1903· 1 entry
Bore a son who lived only for a few days
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And lived in the capital for the next 12 years
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1872· 1 entry
Born 1872-10-15.
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