Its sponsors included John Arlott, Peggy Ashcroft, the Bishop of Birmingham Dr J. L. Wilson, Benjamin Britten, Viscount Chaplin, Michael de la Bédoyère, Bob Edwards, MP, Dame Edith Evans, A. S. Frere, Gerald Gardiner, QC, Victor Gollancz, Dr I. Grunfeld, E. M. Forster, Barbara Hepworth, Patrick Heron, Rev.

First Lady Edith Wilson performed most routine duties of government by reviewing all of Wilson's communications and deciding what he would be presented with and what she would delegate to others.

Axson died in 1914, and in 1915 Wilson married Edith Galt, a direct descendant of the Native American woman Pocahontas.

* December 28 – Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, second wife of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, was First Lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921.

* December 18 President Woodrow Wilson marries Mrs Edith B Galt in Washington

After Mrs. Wilson's August 1914 death the project languished until the second Mrs. Wilson, Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, had their installation restarted and completed in 1916.

* The Edith Bolling Wilson Birthplace Foundation.

Edith Bolling Wilson has been referred to as " The Secret President " and " The First Woman President " because she was seen as assuming many governmental duties after President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke in 1919.

* Edith Bolling Galt Wilson -- Second wife of President Woodrow Wilson

At this point Stroud's mother appealed to President Woodrow Wilson and his wife, Edith Bolling Wilson, and the execution was halted and Stroud's sentence was again commuted to life imprisonment.

In the United States, Edith Wilson – the second wife of President Woodrow Wilson – took over many of the routine duties and details of the government after her husband had been incapacitated by a stroke.

* Funeral for former first lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson ( 1961 )

Many believe that First Lady Edith Bolling Galt Wilson was the de facto President, because she controlled access to Wilson and spoke on his behalf.

The White House Rose Garden was established in 1913 by Ellen Loise Axson Wilson, wife of Woodrow Wilson, on the site of a previous colonial garden established by First Lady Edith Roosevelt ( wife of Theodore Roosevelt ) in 1902.

The third daughter, Edith Wilson, is not involved with the franchise.

Only a handful of first ladies have lived longer -- Anna Harrison, Edith Bolling Wilson, Betty Ford, Lady Bird Johnson, Nancy Reagan, and Bess Truman.

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** January – Harold II marries Edith, daughter of Ælfgār, Earl of Mercia, and widow of Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

About January 1066, Harold married Edith ( or Ealdgyth ), daughter of Ælfgar, Earl of Mercia, and widow of the Welsh prince Gruffydd ap Llywelyn.

Another source states that Harold's widow, Edith Swannesha, was called to identify the body, which she did by some private mark known only to herself.

But the historic sites that he sees prove to be far less significant than the American expatriates that he meets on his extensive journeys across Great Britain and continental Europe ' He eventually meets Edith Cortright, an expatriate American widow in Venice, who is everything his wife is not: self-assured, self-confident, and able to take care of herself.

On 11 June 1128 Geoffrey married Empress Matilda, the daughter and heiress of King Henry I of England by his first wife Edith of Scotland, and widow of Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor.

Sometime between his deposition and his death the widow of King Edward and sister of King Harold, Edith of Wessex, visited him in his imprisonment and allegedly told him to take better care of himself.

The most important of these manors was held by Queen Edith, the widow of Edward the Confessor.

After Vanderbilt died in 1914 of complications from an emergency appendectomy, his widow, Edith Stuyvesant Vanderbilt, completed the sale of 85, 000 of the original 125, 000 acres ( 507 km² ) to the federal government.

Only her eldest daughter Queen Edith ( d. 1075 ) still held some power ( however nominal ) as widow of Edward the Confessor.

In 1565 it was granted to Edith Cole, widow and John and Joan Martin, her children for their lives.

Kirkpatrick's widow, Edith Killgore Kirkpatrick, is a native of Claiborne Parish and a past political figure in her own right.

After Flora's death on February 5, 1893, Whitney married a widow named married Edith Sibyl Randolph ( née May ).

Following the death of Wilson's widow, Edith, the Woodrow Wilson House, located at 2340 S Street, NW, became a museum dedicated to the memory of Woodrow W. Wilson.

It was only after Woodrow Wilson's death that his widow, Edith Wilson, returned to Staunton with plans of creating a memorial.

Edith Turner, Victor's widow and anthropologist in her own right, published in 2011 a definitive overview of the anthropology of communitas, outlining the concept in relation a natural history of joy, including the nature of human experience and its narration, festivals, music and sports, work, disaster, the sacred, revolution and nonviolence, nature and spirit, and ritual and rites of passage.

Though King Harold II is said to have lawfully married Edith of Mercia, the widow of the Welsh ruler Gruffydd ap Llywelyn whom he had defeated in battle, that marriage in spring 1066 is seen by most modern scholars as one of political convenience.

He marries Edith Blades ( Chick Blades ' widow ) and moves to a camp being built to his specifications near Snyder, Texas: Camp Determination, an analog of Auschwitz.

The house was rededicated in 1923 and was subsequently refurbished with many furnishings from the original house by the President's widow, Edith, and his two sisters.

* Edith Derby Williams, historian, granddaughter of former President Theodore Roosevelt, lived on Vashon Island from 1949 until her death in 2008.

" In the 1st season 2nd episode " Writing the President " Edith remarks how before her marriage, in 1946 she got a job and started working for the " Hercules Plumbing Company ".

The Sunday Times ( UK ) reported on 20 June 2008 as follows: A mansion worth £ 15m in one of Paris's most elegant districts has become the latest of 33 luxury properties bought in France by President Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon ... a French judicial investigation has discovered that Bongo, 72, and his relatives also bought a fleet of limousines, including a £ 308, 823 Maybach for his wife, Edith, 44.

He was the eldest son of President Theodore Roosevelt from his second wife Edith Roosevelt.

Theodore Roosevelt, III, was born in New York City on June 14, 1914, the son of Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and Eleanore Butler Alexander Roosevelt, and a grandson of 26th US President, Theodore Roosevelt and Edith Roosevelt.

Dame Raigh Edith Roe DBE ( born 12 December 1922, Western Australia ) has been a member of the Australian Country Women's Association since 1941 ; she became Branch President, Western Australian State President and, eventually, National President of the CWA.

Because her legal career did not compare to those of other possible conservative female candidates ( like federal appellate judges Edith Jones, Karen J. Williams, Priscilla Owen, and Janice Rogers Brown ), many thought that President Bush probably nominated Miers for her personal loyalty to him rather than for her qualifications.

On Saturday, 16 August 2008, Sam Kutesa took as his wife, Edith Gasana, at a ceremony held at his residence in Nakasero, a Kampala suburb, and attended by President Yoweri Museveni and Uganda's First Lady, and MP for Ruhaama County, Ntungamo District, Janet Kataaha Museveni.

After vehement objection by Eisenhower, who wrote " the women of America must share the responsibility for the security of their country in a future emergency as the women of England did in World War II "; the personal testimony of Secretary of Defense James Forrestal ; and support from every major military commander including the Chief of Naval Operations Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, and MacArthur, the Commander of the U. S. Army Forces, Far East, who wrote, " we cannot ask these women to remain on duty, nor can we ask qualified personnel to volunteer, if we cannot offer them permanent status "; supporting articles in The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor, and the support of Senator and future President Lyndon B. Johnson and Representative Edith Rogers, the amended bill passed in the House but was rejected in the Senate.

In 1948, Barmine was married to Edith Kermit Roosevelt, granddaughter of President Theodore Roosevelt ; they were divorced in 1952, and the union produced one daughter, Margot Roosevelt.

Freer persevered, contacting President Theodore Roosevelt ( and commissioning Gari Melchers to paint a portrait of Roosevelt ), and later his wife Edith.

* Edith Margaret Angus ( d. 1907 ), married Frederic Lumb Wanklyn ( 1860 – 1930 ), CPR executive, vice-president of the Windsor Hotel, Montreal, President of the Montreal Terminal Railway

:::::* Theodore Roosevelt ( 1858 – 1919 ), m. Alice Hathaway Lee, m. Edith Kermit Carow, career politician, Assistant Secretary of the U. S. Navy, Governor of New York, Vice-President of the United States of America, and President of the United States of America