Video: 'Edith Bolling Wilson: From Wytheville to the White House'

(Thursday, December 28, 1961, 10:45 p.m. EST) — Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, the first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921 and the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson, died tonight of congestive heart failure at her Washington home. She was 89. Continue reading Edith Wilson, America’s ‘first female president,’ dies in Washington 60 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Dec 28 1961) →