Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (October 16, 1889 – April 5, 1967) was an American writer and the youngest daughter of American president Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson had two sisters, Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Jessie Wilson Sayre.
Biography She was born on October 16, 1889, to Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Axson Wilson in Middletown, Connecticut. She was educated at Saint Mary's School, an Episcopal boarding school for girls in Raleigh, North Carolina.
She married William Gibbs McAdoo, Wilson's Secretary of the Treasury, at the White House on May 7, 1914.Staff report (May 8, 1914). ELEANOR WILSON WEDS W.G. M'ADOO; President's Youngest Daughter and Secretary of Treasury Married at White House. The New York Times They had two daughters: Ellen Wilson McAdoo (1915–1946)Staff report (May 22, 1915,). Ellen died from an overdose. DAUGHTER IS BORN TO MRS. W. G. McAdoo; President's Second Grandchild Will be Christened Ellen for the Late Mrs. Wilson.The New York Times and Mary Faith McAdoo (1920–1988).Staff report (July 18, 1934). NEW M'ADOO BABY BORN PRIMARY NIGHT; A Second Daughter for ex-Secretary of the Treasury and the Former Miss Eleanor Wilson. The New York Times She divorced McAdoo in July 1935.Staff report (July 18, 1934). Eleanor Wilson McAdoo Divorces Senator At Five-Minute Hearing on Incompatibility. The New York Times
Because she had written a biography about her father, she served as an informal counselor on the 1944 biopic Wilson.Knock, Thomas J. "History with Lightning": The Forgotten Film Wilson. American Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 5 (Winter, 1976), pp. 523-543
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 Woodrow Wilson, father Ellen Axson Wilson, mother Edith Bolling, stepmother William Gibbs McAdoo, former husband Margaret Wilson, sister Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre, sister
Publications The Woodrow Wilsons by Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (McMillan, 1937) Julia and the White House "An American girl finds herself in the exciting yet sobering limelight of the White House" (Dodd, Mead, 1946)
References
External links
Guide to the Wilson-McAdoo Collection, ca. 1859-1967