Rare ANNONCE DE MARIAGE 1915 Président Woodrow Wilson et Edith collection Galt

WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON AND EDITH BOLLING GALT ON DECEMBER 18, 1915

On December 18, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt in Washington, D.C. The bride was 43 and the groom was 59. It was the second marriage for Wilson, whose first wife, Ellen Wilson, died the year before from a kidney ailment. Edith was the wealthy widow of Norman Galt, a jewelry-store owner, and a member of Washington high society. According to the National First Ladies' Library, the couple was introduced by Wilson's cousin and a mutual friend. Unlike Wilson's first wife, who was shy and avoided politics, Edith shared Wilson's passion for the subject. Wilson proposed three months later and they married at her Washington, D.C. home. As the 1916 presidential campaign heated up, many of Wilson's advisors worried that his whirlwind courtship and marriage to Edith so soon after his first wife's death would become a political liability.