Skip to Main Content

First Ladies of the United States: Edith Wilson

Edith Wilson

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson (1872 - 1961) was the second wife and first lady for President Woodrow Wilson. 

Research and Reference

Portraits & Perspectives

Power with Grace

A sympathetic biography of Edith Bolling Wilson centers on her marriage to the twenty-eighth President and the extent of her influence and power following his crippling stroke in 1919.

My memoir

Read the memoir of Edith Wilson, wife of President of Edith Wilson.