(28b) Edith Wilson

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Websites

First Ladies National Library Biography of Edith Wilson

White House Historical Association: Edith Wilson

The White House: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson

Papers/letters collections

Edith Bolling Wilson Letters

Manuscripts for: Edith Wilson

Library of Congress: Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Papers

Book: My Memoir

Historical sites

Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace

Edith White Bolling Wilson Gravesite

Fascinating details

• She was given the nicknames “Mrs. President” and/ or “The Secret President” for the role she assumed in keeping the president’s health condition a secret and helping run the “Petticoat Government” after President Wilson suffered a stroke.
• Edith was the first ‘first lady’ to receive permanent Secret Service protection because of Congress’s decision in 1917 to authorize permanent protection to the president’s immediate family.