Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (October 16, 1889 – April 5, 1967) was an American writer and the youngest daughter of American president
Woodrow Wilson and
Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson had two sisters,
Margaret Woodrow Wilson and
Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre.
Biography
She was born on October 16, 1889 to
Woodrow Wilson and
Ellen Axson Wilson in
Middletown, Connecticut
Middletown is a city located in Middlesex County, Connecticut, United States, Located along the Connecticut River, in the central part of the state, it is south of Hartford, Connecticut, Hartford. In 1650, it was incorporated by English settler ...
. She was educated at
Saint Mary's School, an
Episcopal
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boarding school for girls in
Raleigh, North Carolina.
She married
William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's
Secretary of the Treasury, at the
White House on May 7, 1914.
[Staff report (May 8, 1914). ELEANOR WILSON WEDS W.G. M'ADOO; President's Youngest Daughter and Secretary of Treasury Married at White House. '' The New York Times''] They had two daughters: Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915–1946)
[Staff report (May 22, 1915,). Ellen died from an overdose. DAUGHTER IS BORN TO MRS. W. G. McAdoo; President's Second Grandchild Will be Christened Ellen for the Late Mrs. Wilson.''The New York Times''] and Mary Faith McAdoo (1920–1988).
[Staff report (July 18, 1934). NEW M'ADOO BABY BORN PRIMARY NIGHT; A Second Daughter for ex-Secretary of the Treasury and the Former Miss Eleanor Wilson. ''The New York Times''] She divorced McAdoo in July 1935.
[Staff report (July 18, 1934). Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Divorces Senator At Five-Minute Hearing on Incompatibility. ''The New York Times'']
Because she had written a biography about her father, she served as an informal counselor on the 1944
biopic
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''
Wilson
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''.
[Knock, Thomas J. "History with Lightning": The Forgotten Film Wilson. ''American Quarterly'', Vol. 28, No. 5 (Winter, 1976), pp. 523-543] In 1965, she became largely incapacitated after suffering a
cerebral hemorrhage
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.
McAdoo died at her home in
Montecito, California
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, at 77.
She was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery,
Santa Barbara, California. She was the last surviving child of Woodrow Wilson.
Family
*
Woodrow Wilson, father
*
Ellen Axson Wilson, mother
*
Edith Bolling, stepmother
*
William Gibbs McAdoo, former husband
*
Margaret Wilson, sister
*
Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, sister
Publications
* ''The Woodrow Wilsons'' by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (McMillan, 1937)
* ''Julia and the White House'' "An American girl finds herself in the exciting yet sobering limelight of the White House" (Dodd, Mead, 1946)
References
External links
Guide to the Wilson-McAdoo Collection, ca. 1859-1967
1889 births
1967 deaths
19th-century American women
20th-century American women writers
20th-century American writers
People from Middletown, Connecticut
St. Mary's School (North Carolina) alumni
Writers from California
Writers from Connecticut
Woodrow Wilson family
Children of presidents of the United States
Spouses of California politicians
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