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    Ellen Axson Wilson

    First Lady of the United States from 1913 to 1914

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  1. Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was the first lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914, as the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman.

  2. About The White House. First Families. Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death in 1914. “I am naturally...

  3. Mar 31, 2006 · Ellen Axson Wilson was the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States. She was the first Georgia native to serve as the nation’s first lady.

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  5. May 11, 2024 · Ellen Wilson was an American first lady (1913–14), the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States. Although far less famous than her husband’s second wife, Edith Galt Wilson, Ellen played a large part in Woodrow’s career and significantly changed the traditional role of the

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    Dec 16, 2009 · Ellen Wilson (1860-1914) was an American first lady (1913-14) and the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States. Although far less well-known than her husband’s...

  7. Ellen Louise Axson was born on May 15, 1860 and grew up in Rome, Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S. E. Axson, was a Presbyterian minister. Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about six and she only a baby.

  8. American first lady who was the first to use the position to advance worthwhile causes . Born Ellen Louise Axson on May 15, 1860, in Savannah, Georgia; died on August 6, 1914, in Washington, D.C.; daughter of Margaret (Hoyt) Axson and Samuel E. Axson (a third-generation minister); married (Thomas) Woodrow Wilson (future president of the United ...

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