Ellen Axson Wilson – U.S. PRESIDENTIAL HISTORY

Ellen Axson Wilson

White House

OVERVIEW:

BORN:
May 15, 1860
Savannah, Georgia

EDUCATION:
Female Seminary in Rome, Georgia

MARRIED:
Woodrow Wilson (June 24, 1885)

CHILDREN:
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944) 
Jessie Woodrow Wilson (1887–1933) 
Eleanor Randolph Wilson (1889–1967)

POLITICAL PARTY:
Democrat

HIGHLIGHTS:
1911-1913:
First Lady of New Jersey
1913-1914:
First Lady of the United States

DIED:
August 6, 1914 (age 54)
Washington, DC

RESOURCES:

Woodrow and Ellen Wilson in a garden at Princeton, ca. 1910. (Library of Congress)

National First Ladies’ Library
White House
White House Historical Association
First Ladies (C-SPAN)
Miller Center
Wikipedia

PORTRAITS:

(Davis and Son, 1910/Wilson Presidential Library )
(Bain News Service/ Library of Congress)

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