Former first ladies Edith Wilson, left, and Eleanor Roosevelt exchange greetings at a dinner given for Roosevelt by the women’s joint congressional committee in Washington, D.C., on March 14, 1946.

And yet, compared to even the most activist first ladies, like Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton, Edith Wilson stands alone. Only Edith filled the vacuum created by her husband’s infirmity ...

Edith Carow Roosevelt ... children “Sistie” (Anna Eleanor) and “Buzzie” (Curtis Roosevelt) do warm and brighten the place tremendously in contrast to the Wilson, Harding, Coolidge and ...

Mean Rank: 66.007 President Woodrow Wilson’s ... in his second term, Edith’s role in managing the executive branch increased greatly. Was it Michelle Obama? Eleanor Roosevelt?

Before she became first lady, Edith Wilson ran her late husband’s ... and she pointed out that you hear stories about Eleanor Roosevelt, Jackie Kennedy and Jill Biden, but that this is a ...

Flamboyant, confident, and controversial, Edith Bolling Wilson was not your traditional First Lady. After her husband, Woodrow Wilson, suffered a debilitating stroke in 1919, she took the reins of ...

From his 1919 stroke until his death in 1924, Edith Wilson maintained the fiction ... from all the modern first ladies (including Eleanor Roosevelt, Mamie Eisenhower, Jacqueline Kennedy, Pat ...

The first president’s wife to be derisively referred to as “Mrs. President” wasn’t Jill Biden or Hillary Clinton or Eleanor Roosevelt – or even Edith Wilson. It was Dolley Madison.