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Bookmark or Share- Edith Wilson: America's First Woman President? - ThoughtCoFor over a year, first lady Edith Wilson made decisions for her husband Woodrow after his stroke. But did she really act as America's first woman president?
- How Edith Wilson Became America's First Female PresidentOn the evening of Sept. 25, 1919, Edith Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson and First Lady of the United States of America, found her husband on the floor of his bathroom, in the middle of a stroke.
- Edith Wilson: The First Lady Who Became an Acting President - BiographyFor one year and five months, Wilson oversaw her husband's presidential affairs while he recovered from his illness. Unofficially, America has already had what might be called a First Lady...
- Which countries have had women leaders? | First Woman President, First ...Two decades later, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir of Iceland would become the first woman to be elected president. Since then, women have made enormous political strides; by 2024, more than a third of the countries of the world had been led by a woman.
- The First Woman President of the United States – Mrs. Edith Wilson ...The story is known by historians, but not most Americans. Why did she do it? Simple. Congress threatened to declare him incapacitated and make Vice President Thomas Marshall the President.
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