Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre
| Jessie Woodrow Wilson | |
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Jessie Woodrow Wilson in 1913
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| Born |
August 28, 1887 Gainesville, Georgia |
| Died | January 15, 1933 (aged 45) Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Resting place | Nisky Hill Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. |
| Children |
Francis Bowes Sayre Jr. Eleanor Axson Sayre Woodrow Wilson Sayre |
| Parent(s) |
Woodrow Wilson Ellen Axson |
| Relatives |
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, sister Eleanor Wilson McAdoo, sister |
Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (August 28, 1887 – January 15, 1933) was a daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. She was a political activist, and “She worked vigorously for women's suffrage, social issues, and to promote her father's call for a League of Nations, and emerged as a force in the Massachusetts Democratic Party.”
Jessie Woodrow Wilson was born in Gainesville, Georgia, the second daughter of Woodrow and Ellen Axson Wilson. She was the middle sister of Margaret Woodrow Wilson and Eleanor Wilson McAdoo. Wilson was educated privately in Princeton, New Jersey and at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland. She was a member of Gamma Phi Beta sorority. After her graduation from Goucher, she worked at a settlement home in Philadelphia for three years.
In July 1913, four months after her father assumed the presidency, the Wilsons announced Jessie's engagement to Francis Bowes Sayre, Sr.. Her fiance, a 1911 graduate of Harvard Law School, was the son of Robert Sayre, builder of the Lehigh Valley Railroad and organizer and general manager of the Bethlehem Iron Works. At the time of their engagement he was serving in the office of a district attorney. Their November 25, 1913 wedding was the thirteenth White House wedding, and the first since Alice Roosevelt and Nicholas Longworth were wed in 1906.
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