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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

Concise Biography, History & Facts About President Woodrow Wilson
Twenty-Eighth President - Woodrow Wilson
Lifespan: 1856 - 1924
Place of Birth - December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia
Woodrow Wilson Education - College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), graduated 1879. Johns Hopkins University in 1886
Term as President - 1913-1921
Political Party - Democrat
Vice President / Vice Presidents - Thomas Riley Marshall
Religion - Presbyterian
Woodrow Wilson, Military Experience - none

Woodrow Wilson Marriage - June 24, 1885, to Ellen Louise Axson (1860–1914) and on December 18, 1915, to Edith Bolling Galt (1872–1961)
Children - Margaret Woodrow (1886–1944), Jessie Woodrow (1887–1933), Eleanor Randolph (1889–1967)
Career of Woodrow Wilson - Professor, College Administration, Politician, Statesman - Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13
Place of Death - Woodrow Wilson died on
February 3, 1924 in Washington D.C.
Woodrow Wilson was buried in National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.
Next President: President Warren Harding 

Major Events during his presidency

  • Federal Reserve Act (1913)

  • Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
  • World War I (1914-1918)
  • Lusitania Sunk (1915)
  • United States entered World War I by declaring war on Germany (1917)
  • Espionage and Sedition Acts
  • Treaty of Versailles (1919)

Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was President Woodrow Wilson

  • Description of President Woodrow Wilson - Height 6 feet 1.5 inches

  • Wilson's father was a Presbyterian minister
  • Woodrow Wilson Nickname - “Schoolmaster in Politics”
  • Wilson was elected president of Princeton University in 1902
  • Woodrow Wilson Age at Inauguration - 56 years old
  • He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920
  • Woodrow Wilson was the only president with a Ph.D.
  • Age at Death - 67 years old
  • Presidential Facts and Trivia in response to the question who was Woodrow Wilson

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