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 New Georgia Encyclopedia: Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914)
Ellen Axson Wilson was the wife of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth president of the United States.
Wilson was a reluctant politician's wife, but after her husband became the governor of New Jersey in 1911, she carried out her role with grace and dignity.
Wilson won the 1912 presidential election, and in March 1913 the family moved into the White House in Washington, D.C. As First Lady, Wilson became concerned by the abysmal conditions of the alleys and back streets of Washington, and she campaigned for the passage of a bill to clean up the streets.
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 Woodrow Wilson - dKosopedia
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856 in Staunton, Virginia.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania and Wesleyan in Connecticut before becoming a professor of political economy and jurisprudence at Princeton University in the 1890s.
Wilson accepted the nomination of the Democratic Party for Governor of New Jersey and won in a landslide in 1910.
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 Encyclopedia: Woodrow Wilson
Wilson came of age in the decades after the Civil War, when Congress was supreme—"the gist of all policy is decided by the legislature"—and corruption rampant.
Wilson's attitude on racial issues is generally regarded as a stain on his reputation; many argue that he was instrumental in shaping the worst period of racism in American history.
Wilson's "History of the American People" is repeatedly quoted in the notoriously racist film The Birth of a Nation, which glorifies the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in resistance to Radical Republican Reconstruction.
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 Georgia Women of Achievement: 1996 Inductee ELLEN LOUISE AXSON WILSON
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born in Savannah in 1860, educated in Rome, studied art in New York City and on March 4, 1913 became the First Lady of the United States.
Ellen married Woodrow Wilson in June of 1885 in Savannah.
Ellen held open house at the White House on Saturdays so working ladies could attend and visited government offices, where she crusaded for better working conditions for all people and for women in particular.
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 Ellen Louise Wilson -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Louise Axson grew up in (Click link for more info and facts about Rome, Georgia) Rome, Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S.E. Axson, was a (A follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church) Presbyterian minister.
She had a studio with a skylight installed at the (The government building that serves as the residence and office of the President of the United States) White House in 1913, and found time for painting despite the weddings of two daughters within six months and the duties of hostess for the nation.
Descendant of (A person who is owned by someone) slave owners, Ellen Wilson lent her prestige to the cause of improving housing in the capital's Negro slums.
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 The Presidents of the United States - Woodrow Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina.
Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.
Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims--the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish "A general association of nations...affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
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 Ellen Axson Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Axson Wilson (1860-1914) was the first wife of Woodrow Wilson, who served as president of the United States from 1913 to 1921.
Wilson, whose maiden name was Ellen Louise Axson, was born in Savannah, Georgia, on May 15, 1860.
Ellen Axson met Woodrow Wilson in Rome in 1883.
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 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
Wilson was writing to thank President Taft for advice concerning the mansion he was leaving.
Two years as first lady of New Jersey had given her valuable experience in the duties of a woman whose time belongs to the people.
On the day before her death, she made her physician promise to tell Wilson "later" that she hoped he would marry again; she murmured at the end, "...take good care of my husband." Struggling grimly to control his grief, Wilson took her to Rome for burial among her kin.
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 Station Information - Ellen Louise Wilson
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (1860 - 1914), first wife of Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1913 until her death.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson first saw her when he was about six and she only a baby.
That same year Bryn Mawr College offered Dr. Wilson a teaching position at an annual salary of $1,500.
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 Woodrow & Ellen Axson Wilson ~ Roses & The League of Nations
Wilson too much, since she "won her Woodrow", a young feminist artist, daughter of a preacher, ruler of his household when her mother died too young...till she and Woodrow discovered one another, she was famous for proclaiming disinterest in marriage...
It was Ellen Wilson's religious background and idealistic spirit, "love is an action word" approach to things that encouraged Woodrow Wilson in his desire to promote the League of Nations in the the first place.The concept of World Peace was simply not popular or practical.
Ellen Wilson died of complications from Bright's disease, kidney problems, the fighter's malady: the fighter for peace felled by the onset of World War I, as Woodrow Wilson described it himself later, before his remarriage, grieving for her, he would say that
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 Biographie: Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924
Außenpolitisch verfolgt Wilson während seiner Amtszeit gegenüber Lateinamerika eine "Politik der offenen Tür", zu deren Durchsetzung er auch zu militärischen Mitteln greift.
Wilson erzielt bei den Präsidentschaftswahlen einen knappen Sieg über den Republikaner Charles Evans Hughes.
Januar: In einer Rede an den Kongreß formuliert Wilson in seinem 14-Punkte-Programm die Grundsätze für eine an westlich-liberalen Vorstellungen orientierte Friedensordnung.
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 woodrow wilson, Miscellaneous, Free Essays @ ChuckIII College Resources
Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va., on Dec. 28, 1856.
Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College (1885-88) and Wesleyan University in Connecticut (1888-90) before he was called (1890) to Princeton as professor of jurisprudence and political economy.
Wilson characterized the Versailles Treaty as the best obtainable compromise and put his hopes in the League of Nations, an integral part of the treaty, as the institution through which inequities could be later rectified.
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 Ellen Louise Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson (de mayo el 15 de 1860 - de agosto el 6 de 1914), primera esposa de Woodrow Wilson, era primera señora de los Estados Unidos a partir de 1913 hasta su muerte.
Ellen Louise Axson creció hacia arriba en Roma, Georgia, donde estaba ministro su padre, el Reverend S.E. Axson, presbyterian.
Wilson una posición de enseñanza en un sueldo anual de $1.500.
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 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Louise Axson was born on May 15, 1860 in Savannah, Ga. She married Thomas Woodrow Wilson (who later became President of the United States) on June 23, 1885.
Ellen Wilson was a talented artist, well known for her art work.
Ellen (Axson) Wilson was buried at the Myrtle Hill Cemetery, in Rome, Ga.
romegeorgia.com /ellen_louise_axson_wilson.html   (283 words)

  
 The White House Historical Association > Picturing the President's House
Description: From left to right: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson and her three daughters, Jessie, Margaret, and Nell on the south portico of the White House.
Family time, books, and art were Ellen Wilson’s favorite pastimes, and this explains the attention she gave to redecorating the family quarters of the White House.
Wilson brightened the rooms, converted a third floor room into her art studio, and removed President Roosevelt’s stuffed heads from the State Dining Room.
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 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Louise Axson was born on May 15, 1860 in Savannah, Ga. She married Thomas Woodrow Wilson (who later became President of the United States) on June 23, 1885.
Ellen Wilson was a talented artist, well known for her art work.
Ellen (Axson) Wilson was buried at the Myrtle Hill Cemetery, in Rome, Ga.
www.romegeorgia.com /ellen_louise_axson_wilson.html   (283 words)

  
 Georgia Women of Achievement: 2000 Inductee ELLEN LOUISE AXSON WILSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born in Savannah in 1860.
Wilson became first lady of Princeton University when her husband was elected university president and served as the research associate and foreign language translator for many of her husband’s scholarly books.
Wilson visited government offices, particularly the Government Printing Office and the Post Office Department, where she crusaded for better working conditions for all people, but for women in particular.
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 Biography of ELLEN LOUISE AXSON WILSON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Ellen Wilson, daughter of a Presbyterian minister, married the future President Woodrow Wilson in 1885.
Aside from being a devoted wife and mother, Ellen Wilson was interested in social reform.
A member of her staff is reported to have said, "I think we have an angel in the White House." One of her chief concerns was the improvement of living conditions for the poor.
www.multieducator.com /Bio/ladies/wilson.html   (348 words)

  
 Woodrow Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
She had a studio with a skylight installed at the White House in 1913, and found time for painting despite the weddings of two daughters within 6 months and the duties of hostess for the nation.
Wilson returned to campaign for Senate approval of the peace treaty and the League of Nations Covenant.
Wilson's first wife Ellen insisted in going back to Georgia, joking but only in part, so the children would not be born with Yankees.
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 Georgia Women of Achievement :: Honorees :: Ellen Louise Axson Wilson
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1860.
Ellen was a devoted mother who made time for her artistic talent.
Ellen also led tours showing civic leaders, congressmen and their wives the poverty and substandard housing that surrounded them in the nation’s capitol.
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 First World War.com - Who's Who - Woodrow Wilson
Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims - the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish "A general association of nations...
After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace.
Click here to read Wilson urge the American people to "do their bit" following the declaration of war with Germany.
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 The Roman Web History Guide to History of Rome and Floyd County, GA Georgia USA
This cemetery is the final resting place of First Lady Ellen Axson Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, as well as the young man selected as the "Known Soldier" from World War I and 377 soldiers who died in Civil War battles around Rome.
The house was once the home of the Reverend Samuel Axson., His daughter, Ellen Louise, became the wife of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th President of the United States.
Wilson died at the White House in 1914, the President brought her body back to Rome for Burial.
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 Presidentes de los Estados Unidos-Woodrow Wilson
Wilson prosperó rapidamente como un joven y conservador profesor de ciencias política y se convirtió en Presidente de Princeton en 1902.
Wilson maniobró a través del congreso tres piezas de legislación importantes.
Wilson se presentó ante el Congreso en enero de 1918, para anunciar los blancos americanos--Los Catorce puntos, el último de las cuales establecería "una asociación general de las naciones...
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 Free-CliffNotes.com - Info On Tedd And Wilson   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims--the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish A general association of nations...affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.
Two years later, Woodrow Wilson, the Democratic, progressive governor of the state of New Jersey, campaigned against Taft, the Republican candidate, and against Roosevelt who, rejected as a candidate by the Republican convention, had organized a third party, the Progressives.
Control, said Wilson, must be public, not private, must be vested in the government itself, so that the banks may be the instruments, not the masters, of business and of individual enterprise and initiative.
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 Woodrow Wilson
Wilson was writing to thank President Taft for advice concerning the mansion he was leaving.
Wilson returned to campaign for Senate approval of the peace treaty and the League of Nations Covenant.
Wilson's first wife Ellen insisted in going back to Georgia, joking but only in part, so the children would not be born with Yankees.
www.histclo.hispeed.com /pres/ind20/wilson.html   (1810 words)

  
 Ellen Louise Wilson - Definition up Erdmond.Com
Ellen Louise Axson grew up in Rome,_Georgia, where her father, the Reverend S.E. Axson, was a Presbyterian minister.
But Eleanor was born in Connecticut, while Wilson was teaching at Wesleyan_University.
She had a studio with a skylight installed at the White_House in 1913, and found time for painting despite the weddings of two daughters within six months and the duties of hostess for the nation.
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 Axson Family Genealogy Forum
Axson's in Bamberg, originating from Georgia - Keith Hiott Sr.
Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 1860 to 1914 Carolina - Margaret Rose 4/09/02
Axson, Florence and Edward - Janis Leach Franco 1/18/02
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 wiki/Ellen Louise Wilson Definition / wiki/Ellen Louise Wilson Research   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
There is also a Bryn Mawr School for girls in grades K-12 in Baltimore, Maryland that was founded in 1885 to help girls prepare for college; the Bryn Mawr School shared some early supporters with the college (one of the founders, M. Carey Thomas, wa...
But Eleanor was born in Connecticut, while Wilson was teaching at Wesleyan UniversityWesleyan University founded in 1831, is a private, liberal arts university in Middletown, Connecticut.
Founded by Methodist leaders and residents of Middletown, Wesleyan was the first university to be named after John Wesley, the founder of the Methodism and it shares a common Methodist heritage with about twenty other U.S. colleges and universities also named after Wesley....
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