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Edith Bolling Galt Wilson "Secret President," "first woman to run the government" -- so legend has labeled a First Lady whose role gained unusual significance when her husband suffered prolonged and disabling illness.
Sally White Bolling (1843-1925) born in Virginia, married September 16, 1860; died in Washington, D.C. Ancestry: English, Native American; Edith Wilson traced her ancestors to colonial Virginia and either by blood or through marriage; she was related to Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, Letitia Tyler and the Harrison family.
Edith Wilson died on Dec. 28, 1961 (the day that would have been Woodrow Wilson’s 105th birthday), in Washington, D.C., and was buried beside her husband in Washington National Cathedral; the Wilsons are the only presidential couple to be interred in the nation’s capital. (1872–1961). After Woodrow Wilson—28th president of the United ...
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 ...
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.
16 de nov. de 2009 · On December 18, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Galt in Washington, D.C. The bride was 43 and the groom was 59. It was the second marriage for Wilson, whose first wife died the year ...
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.
