Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (October 16, 1889 – April 5, 1967) was an American writer and the youngest daughter of American president

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and Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson had two sisters,

Margaret Woodrow Wilson Margaret Woodrow Wilson (April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944) was the eldest child of President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. Her two siblings were Jessie and Eleanor. After her mother's death in 1914, Margaret served her father as the ...

and

Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (August 28, 1887 – January 15, 1933) was a daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. She was a political activist, worked for women's suffrage, social issues, to promote her father's call for ...

Biography

She was born on October 16, 1889 to

and

Ellen Axson Wilson Ellen Louise Wilson (née Axson; May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914) was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and the mother of their three daughters. Like her husband, she was a Southerner, as well as the daughter of a clergyman. She was ...

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. She was educated at Saint Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school for girls in

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. She married

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, Wilson's

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, at the

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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. ''

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'' 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 '' Wilson''.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

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. McAdoo died at her home in Montecito, California, at 77. She was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery,

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. She was the last surviving child of Woodrow Wilson.

Family

, father *

, mother *

Edith Bolling Edith Wilson ( Bolling, formerly Galt; October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961) was the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson. She married the widower Wilson in December 1915, during hi ...

, stepmother *

, former husband *

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, sister *

, 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 {{US-writer-stub