Was Edith Wilson Really

The First Female US President?

 

Edith Wilson: First Female President?

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Edith Bolling. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Bolling_(married_Woodrow_Wilson)_LCCN2011660893.jpg

 

Woodrow and Ellen Wilson. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_Wilson,_full-length_portrait,_standing_next_to_his_wife,_Ellen,_seated_in_a_chair_LCCN96520621.jpg

 

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Woodrow & Edith Wilson Smithsonian. CC0 1.0 UPDD. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smithsonian_-_NPG_-_Wilson_-_S_NPG_76_39.jpg

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Sheep at White House 1919.

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Woodrow Wilson. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_Wilson_(4435974698).jpg

 

Wilson in Rolls Royce. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wilson_in_the_Rolls_Royce_(4454886796).jpg

 

Woodrow and Edith Wilson. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_and_Edith_Wilson.jpg

 

President & Cabinet. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_Woodrow_Wilson_and_cabinet_LCCN98519146.jpg

 

Senator Albert B. Fall. Courtesy Bain News Service https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_B._Fall_with_map_background.jpg

 

Robert Lansing https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:LANSING,_ROBERT._SECRETARY_OF_STATE,_1915-1920._AT_DESK_LCCN2016867163.jpg

 

Woodrow and Edith Wilson Armistice Day. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_Wilson_and_Edith_Wilson_participating_in_Armistice_Day_festivities_LCCN2008679855.jpg

 

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Woodrow Wilson & Edith Bolling Galt  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodrow_Wilson_%26_Edith_Bolling_Galt_(4454458806).jpg

 

Woodrow Wilson and his wife

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Edith Wilson  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Edith_Wilson_cropped_2.jpg

 

 

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY AND FURTHER READING SUGGESTIONS 

 

“Edith Bolling Galt Wilson”. American Experience. Accessed 30 July 2023. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/wilson-edith-wilson/

 

“About Edith Wilson”  Woodrow Wilson House. Accessed 30 July 2023. https://woodrowwilsonhouse.org/wilson-topics/edith-wilson/

 

Roberts, Rebecca Boggs. “How Edith Wilson Kept Herself – And Her Husband – In The White House”. Smithsonian Magazine 7 March 2023. Accessed 30 July 2023. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-edith-wilson-kept-herselfand-her-husbandin-the-white-house-180981712/

 

Perry, Barbara A.”Edith Wilson: The Woman Who Fooled DC And Ran The White ouse”. The Washington Post 29 March 2023. Accessed 30 July 2023. https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2023/03/29/edith-wilson-first-lady-book/

 

Longley, Robert. “Edith Wilson: America’s First Woman President?”  Thought Co.  Updated 4 April 2021.  Accessed 30 July 2023. https://www.thoughtco.com/edith-wilson-4146035

 

  

  

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