Woodrow Wilson's Life

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. He was the twenty-eighth President. He attended private schools in Georgia and South Carolina. He attended Davidson College in North Carolina and then enrolled in Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey. He studied law at the University of Virginia and then he went on to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland where he graduated with a PhD in philosophy in 1886. In 1887, Woodrow Wilson married Ellen Axson and together they had three children. He taught in Bryn Mawr College in PA and at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Wilson later taught constitutional law at Princeton University and after that, he became President of Princeton University and served from 1902 to 1910. In 1911, he became Governor of New Jersey. The Democrats nominated Woodrow for President of the United States and won. He became President in 1913 during World War I. During his two-term administration, 1,000,000 automobiles were produced. As President, Woodrow reduced tariffs and created an income tax. The US became involved in World War I when Germany ambushed Lusitania. The armistice was signed on November 11, 1918 also during his presidency. Wilson was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1919. He left office in 1921 after serving two terms as US President. He passed away of a stroke while on a speaking tour in the capital to promote the League of Nations on February 3, 1924 at age sixty-seven. Note: Wilson was President from 1913 to 1921 and the Vice President was Thomas Riley Marshall.