Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre


Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre was a daughter of US President Woodrow Wilson and Ellen Louise Axson. She was a political activist, and She worked vigorously for womens suffrage, social issues, and to promote her fathers 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.

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