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|name = Margaret Wilson (Nistha)
|image = Margaret Woodrow Wilson 1912.jpg
|order = Acting
|office = First Lady of the United States
|president = [[Woodrow Wilson]]
|term_start = August 6, 1914
|term_end = December 18, 1915
|term_label = In role
|predecessor = [[Ellen Axson Wilson|Ellen Wilson]]
|successor = [[Edith Wilson]]
|birth_name = Margaret Woodrow Wilson
|birth_date = {{birth date|1886|4|16}}
|birth_place = [[Gainesville, Georgia]], U.S.
|death_date = {{death date and age|1944|2|12|1886|4|16}}
|death_place = [[Pondicherry]], [[French India]]
|parents = {{plainlist|
* [[Woodrow Wilson]]
* [[Ellen Axson Wilson]]
}}
}}
'''Margaret Woodrow Wilson''' (April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944) was the eldest child of President [[Woodrow Wilson]] and [[Ellen Axson Wilson|Ellen Louise Axson]]. Her two siblings were [[Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre|Jessie]] and [[Eleanor Wilson McAdoo|Eleanor]]. After her mother's death in 1914, Margaret served her father as the White House social hostess,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://firstladies.c-span.org/FirstLady/29/Ellen-Wilson.aspx |title=First Lady - Ellen Wilson |publisher=[[C-SPAN]] |quote="Ellen Wilson died during her husband’s presidency. Their daughter, Margaret Woodrow Wilson, served as hostess until her father married Edith."}}</ref> the title later known as [[First Lady of the United States|first lady]]. Her father remarried in 1915.

==Early life and education==
Margaret Woodrow Wilson (her middle name was her paternal grandmother's surname and father's middle name) was born in [[Gainesville, Georgia]]. Both her parents strongly identified with the [[Southern United States|South]], and both of their fathers had been Protestant ministers. Wilson's parents were living in the [[Northern United States|North]] where her father was teaching, but her mother did not want her children born as [[Yankee]]s; Ellen Wilson accordingly arranged to stay with family in Gainesville for the births of her first two daughters. Margaret attended local schools, sometimes associated with the colleges where her father taught during her growing years.

==Career==
In his will, Wilson's father had bequeathed her an [[annuity]] of $2,500 annually (worth ${{formatnum:{{Inflation|US|2500|1924}}}} today) as long as that amount did not exceed one-third of the annual income of his estate, and as long as she remained unmarried.<ref>''Wills of the U.S. Presidents'', edited by Herbert R Collins and David B Weaver (New York: Communication Channels Inc., 1976) p. 176, {{ISBN|0-916164-01-2}}.</ref> Wilson sang, and she made several recordings. In 1914, "My Laddie" was released on [[Columbia Records]], #39195.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/talent/detail/49853/Thayer_W._A._composer|title=W. A. Thayer (composer) - Discography of American Historical Recordings|website=adp.library.ucsb.edu|language=en|access-date=2018-01-03}}</ref>

In 1938 Margaret Wilson traveled to [[Sri Aurobindo Ashram|the ashram]] of [[Sri Aurobindo]] in [[Pondicherry]], [[India]], where she remained for the rest of her life. She became a member and devotee of the ashram and was given the new name 'Nistha', meaning "dedication" in [[Sanskrit]]. She and the scholar [[Joseph Campbell]] edited the English translation of the classical work on the [[Hindu]] mystic, [[Sri Ramakrishna]], ''[[The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna]]'' by [[Swami Nikhilananda]], which was published in 1942, by [[Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center]], New York.<ref name="gospel_preface">
{{cite book
| last = Nikhilananda
| first = Swami
| author-link = Swami Nikhilananda
| title = The Gospel of Ramakrishna
| chapter = Preface
| chapter-url = http://www.belurmath.org/gospel/preface.htm
| publisher = Sri Ramakrishna Math
| year = 1942
| location = Chennai
| url = http://www.belurmath.org/gospel/
}}
</ref>

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Wilson died from [[uremia]] and was buried in Pondicherry, India, in 1944.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=wZJMF1LD7PcC&dat=19440214&printsec=frontpage&hl=en | title=Woodrow Wilson Daughter Dead | work=[[The Milwaukee Sentinel]] | date=February 14, 1944 | access-date=29 January 2014 | pages=1}}</ref>

==See also==
{{Portal|Biography}}

* ''[[The Subtle Body]]'', a history of yoga in America with a chapter on Wilson

==References==
<references/>

==External links==
{{Commons category|Margaret Woodrow Wilson}}
*[http://www.shapell.org/manuscript.aspx?woodrow-wilson-white-house Woodrow Wilson's Letters to his ''Darling Daughter'' from the Shapell Manuscript Foundation]
*{{findagrave|17995286}}

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