Eleanor Wilson McAdoo explained

Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Birth Name:Eleanor Randolph Wilson
Birth Date:16 October 1889
Birth Place:Middletown, Connecticut, U.S.
Death Place:Montecito, California, U.S.
Resting Place:Santa Barbara, California
Other Names:Nellie Wilson
Education:Saint Mary's School
Children:2
Relatives:Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (Sister)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (sister)
Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. (nephew)
Eleanor Sayre (Niece)
Edith Wilson (stepmother)

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. She was educated at Saint Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school for girls in Raleigh, North Carolina.[1] [2]

She married William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, at the White House on May 7, 1914.[3] They had two daughters: Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915–1946)[4] and Mary Faith McAdoo (1920–1988).[5] She divorced McAdoo in July 1935.[6]

Because she had written a biography about her father, she served as an informal counselor on the 1944 biopic Wilson.[7] In 1965, she became largely incapacitated following a cerebral hemorrhage.

McAdoo died at her home in Montecito, California, at 77.[8] She was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. She was the last surviving child of Woodrow Wilson.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Notable Saint Mary's Alumnae. sms.edu. 29 July 2023.
  2. Web site: Archival Collections at the Library. Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum. 2021-04-15. June 22, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20180622140325/http://www.woodrowwilson.org/library-archives/archival-collections-at-the-library. dead.
  3. 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
  4. 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
  5. 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
  6. Staff report (July 18, 1934). Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Divorces Senator At Five-Minute Hearing on Incompatibility. The New York Times
  7. Knock, Thomas J. "History with Lightning": The Forgotten Film Wilson. American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Winter, 1976), pp. 523-543
  8. News: Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, President's Daughter, 77, Dies. Former Wife of Treasury Chief Remained Dedicated to Her Father's Ideals . Mrs. Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, a daughter of President Wilson and the former wife of William Gibbs McAdoo, Mr. Wilson's Treasury Secretary, died last night at her home here. She was 77 years old. ... . The New York Times . April 7, 1967 . 2012-10-07 .