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Woodrow Wilson
Twenty-Eighth U.S. President

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March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1921

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Thomas R. Marshall

FIRST LADY
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Ellen Wilson*
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*Died in the White House
BORN:  December 28, 1856
     Staunton, Virginia

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Edith Wilson
CHILDREN:  3 daughters  (All with his first wife)
PROFESSION:  Attorney, College Professor
POLITICAL PARTY:  Democrat
HOME STATE:  New Jersey
NICKNAME:  "Schoolmaster in Politics"
POLITICAL OFFICES:  Governor (NJ)

On September 25, 1919 while speaking in Pueblo, Colorado; President Wilson suffered a stroke and almost died.  Edith Wilson, while nursing her husband back to health, hid the severity of the President's condition from the public by handling many of his duties.  This later became known as the "Petticoat Government".
DIED:  February 3, 1924  (Age - 67)
LAST WORD:  "Edith."  (His wife's name.)
BURIED:  Washington, DC  (The only president burried in our Nation's Capitol.)
"No one but the President seems to be expected...to look out for the general interests of the country."  President Woodrow Wilson

 

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