Ellen Wilson (née Waverly) is an American former politician who served as the 41st and first female president of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Ellen was one of the first female astronaut candidates of NASA and became one of the agency's first four female astronauts in 1970. A closeted lesbian, she married Larry Wilson, a gay friend, to diffuse suspicion of their sexual orientation and maintain their employment at NASA. She previously had a relationship with Pam Horton, a poet and former bartender of the Outpost Tavern.