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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the second wife of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. She grew up in Virginia, where her family had been settled since colonial times. In 1896 she married Norman Galt, a prosperous Washington, D.C. jeweler.
17 de dic. de 2013 · Edith Bolling Galt was subconsciously being prepared for a role that neither of them could have known was coming. Sources: · Hatch, Alden – Edith Bolling Wilson: First Lady Extraordinary, 1961, Dodd, Mead · Levin, Phyllis Lee – Edith and Woodrow – 2001, Lisa Drew Book
My Memoir. The second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson began life as a small-town Virginia whose sister's marriage and residence in Washington D.C. had led to her own, as Mrs. Norman Galt. When her first husband died, leaving her a widow at 36, Edith Bolling Galt took an active role in the stewardship of his business affairs, and spent much of her ...
Dopo una breve frequentazione, il presidente Wilson sposò la quarantatreenne Edith Bolling Galt il 18 dicembre 1915, a casa della sposa a Washington, davanti ad appena quaranta ospiti. Edith Wilson morì il 28 dicembre 1961 per insufficienza cardiaca all'età di ottantanove anni, diventando la quarta first lady più longeva, dopo Bess Wallace Truman , Lady Bird Johnson e Betty Ford .
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.
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 ...
16 de sept. de 2023 · Born in 1872 in West Virginia, Edith Bolling was the daughter of Judge William Holcombe Bolling and Sallie White Bolling. Her ancestry traces back to Colonial Virginia. She is a descendant of Pocahontas on her father’s side. She was related by either blood or marriage to Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, and Letitia Christian Tyler, first ...
