# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edith-wilson
# Generated: 2026-09-02T18:55:54.266Z

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name: "Edith Wilson"
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description: "She became the gatekeeper to the presidency after Woodrow Wilson's stroke in 1919 left him bedridden — deciding which matters reached him, which didn't, and effectively running the executive office for seventeen months without holding elected power."
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Edith Bolling married the widowed President Woodrow Wilson in December 1915, midway through his first term. For three years she was First Lady in the traditional sense. Then in October 1919 Wilson suffered a severe stroke that left him incapacitated. For the rest of his presidency — until March 1921 — Edith managed the flow of information and decisions from the Oval Office, determining what was urgent enough to bring to her bedridden husband and what could wait or be handled without him. She called it a "stewardship." Historians have called it something closer to a shadow presidency.