Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo was an American author and the youngest daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson had two sisters, Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre.Biography
Born in Middletown, Connecticut, she married Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo at the White House on May 7, 1914. They had two daughters: Ellen Wilson McAdoo and Mary Faith McAdoo. She divorced McAdoo in July 1935.
Because she had written a biography about her father, she served as an informal counselor on the 1944 biopic Wilson. In 1965, she became largely incapacitated after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage.
McAdoo died at her home in Montecito, California, at 77. She was interred at the Santa Barbara Cemetery, Santa Barbara, California. She was the last surviving child of Woodrow Wilson.Family
