Ellen Axson Wilson Role

Ellen Louise Axson

Ellen Louise Axson was the first wife of President Woodrow Wilson and a prominent painter and First Lady. Born into a Presbyterian minister's family in Georgia, she studied art before marrying Wilson. After moving into the White House, she actively supported social movements aimed at improving the living conditions in Washington, D.C. slums and raising living standards in Black communities. A housing improvement bill initiated by her was passed after her death in 1914.

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Year	Ellen Louise Axson
1860	Birth of Ellen Louise Axson (Period: May 15, 1860, Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States)
1871	Art education at the Rome Female College (Age: 10 years old, Period: Circa 1871–1876, Location: Rome, Georgia, United States)
1878	Award at the Paris Exposition (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 17 years old, Period: Circa 1878, Location: Paris, France)
1883	Engagement to Woodrow Wilson (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 22 years old, Period: 1883, Location: Rome, Georgia, United States)
1884	Death of father Samuel E. Axson (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1884, Location: Georgia, United States) Art studies at the Art Students League (Age: 23 years old, Period: 1884–1885, Location: New York City, New York, United States)
1885	Marriage and family life (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 24 years old, Period: 1885–1910, Location: Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania; Middletown, Connecticut; Princeton, New Jersey, etc.) Marriage (Ellen Louise Axson, Woodrow Wilson, Age: 25 years old, Period: June 24, 1885, Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States, at the home (church parsonage) of Ellen's paternal grandfather, Isaac Stockton Keith Axson)
1905	Drowning accident of brother Eddie (Age: 44 years old, Period: 1905, Location: Rivers in Georgia, United States)
1911	Marriage as New Jersey Governor (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 50 years old, Period: 1911–1913, Location: New Jersey, United States)
1913	Campaign to improve housing conditions in the White House (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1913–1914, Location: Washington, D.C., United States) Painting activities in the White House (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 52 years old, Period: 1913–1914, Location: The White House, Washington, D.C., United States) Development of the White House Rose Garden (Age: 52 years old, Period: 1913–1914, Location: The White House, Washington, D.C., United States) Marriage as US President (Ellen Louise Axson, Age: 52 years old, Period: March 4, 1913, Location: Washington, D.C., United States)
1914	World War I (Age: 53 years old, Period: 1914-1918, Location: Battlefields centered on Europe, United States) Death of Ellen Louise Axson (Age: 54 years old, Period: August 6, 1914)

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The Wilson Family	Thomas Woodrow Wilson Ellen Louise Axson Edith Bolling Galt Wilson James Woodrow
The Roosevelt Administration	Franklin Delano Roosevelt Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Cordell Hull Claude Augustus Swanson Jesse Holman Jones Robert Houghwout Jackson
Southern politician	George Carter Glass James Francis Byrnes Thomas Terry Connally Claude Denson Pepper Alben William Barkley Byron Patton Harrison John Nance Garner

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