Edith Wilson has been called the country's first female President after she took a strong leadership role following President Woodrow Wilson's stroke in October 1919. The second wife of Woodrow Wilson, the couple met in early 1915 and married later that year, barely a year after the death of First Lady Ellen Wilson. Edith assumed a more active role in her husband's political pursuits, becoming an adviser and personal assistant, and was well-versed with the war in Europe, according to The Miller Center at the University of Virginia.
