RARE 1915 Wedding Announcement for President Woodrow Wilson & Edith Bolling Galt

Description: WOODROW WILSON. Very rare and hard-to-find wedding announcement, measuring 8.5 by 5.25 inches and in near fine condition with only toning, for President Woodrow Wilson and Edith Bolling: “Mr. Woodrow Wilson and Mrs. Norman Galt nce Edith Bolling announce their marriage on Saturday the eighteenth of December nineteen hundred and fifteen Washington, D.C..” We were unable to locate any similar items related to Wilson’s wedding available for sale at auction in the past 25 years. VERY RARE AND HARD-TO-FIND WEDDING ANNOUNCEMENT FOR PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON AND EDITH BOLLING ON DECEMBER 18, 1915 On December 18, 1915, President Woodrow Wilson married Edith Bolling Galt in Washington, D.C. The bride was 43 and the groom was 59. It was the second marriage for Wilson, whose first wife, Ellen Wilson, died the year before from a kidney ailment. Edith was the wealthy widow of Norman Galt, a jewelry-store owner, and a member of Washington high society. According to the National First Ladies’ Library, the couple was introduced by Wilson’s cousin and a mutual friend. Unlike Wilson’s first wife, who was shy and avoided politics, Edith shared Wilson’s passion for the subject. Wilson proposed three months later and they married at her Washington, D.C. home. As the 1916 presidential campaign heated up, many of Wilson’s advisors worried that his whirlwind courtship and marriage to Edith so soon after his first wife’s death would become a political liability. Reference: The History Channel. Woodrow Wilson Marries Edith Bolling Galt.

Price: 450 USD

Location: Spartanburg, South Carolina

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