 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson Day
May 15th has been proclaimed Ellen
Louise Axson Wilson Day in
Rome
,
Floyd
County
Ms. Axson was a native to
Rome
and was married to
Woodrow Wilson in 1885. She
was
Georgia
’s first First Lady.
Warren Jones, of
Rome
, brought attention
to the fact that Ellen Wilson is the only first
lady that does not have
a portrait displayed in the White House Gallery of First Ladies.
Funds are now being raised to have a portrait made and placed in
Georgia's Capital building
and the White House. It is
planned to have two museum quality copies made of the portrait of
Wilson
that hangs in the
Sara Hightower Library in
Rome
.
Information
and photo obtained from Rome News-Tribune
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