Incredible Facts You Didn’t Know About Some of The Most Famous First Ladies

Edith Wilson Helped Her Husband After His Stroke

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In 1912, when President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke, his wife and first lady Edith Wilson took some of his responsibilities on for him to help out. She handled official correspondence and even had the Secretary of State fired for calling a meeting without her husband.

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