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 and Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre.

Biography

She was born on October 16, 1889, to

and Ellen Axson Wilson in

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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 William Gibbs McAdoo, 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

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'' 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 following 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 * 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 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 Family of Woodrow Wilson Children of presidents of the United States Spouses of California politicians People from Montecito, California {{US-writer-stub