Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson
Portrait by Frank Graham Cootes 1913
28th President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
Vice PresidentThomas R. Marshall
Preceded byWilliam Howard Taft
Succeeded byWarren G. Harding
38th Governor of New Jersey
In office
January 17, 1911 – March 1, 1913
Preceded byJohn Franklin Fort
Succeeded byJames Fairman Fielder
13th President of Princeton University
In office
October 25, 1902 – October 21, 1910
Preceded byFrancis Patton
Succeeded byJohn Grier Hibben
Personal details
Born
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

(1856-12-28)December 28, 1856
Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
DiedFebruary 3, 1924(1924-02-03) (aged 67)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting placeWashington National Cathedral
Political partyDemocratic
Spouse(s)
(m. 1885; died 2006)
(m. 2018)
Children
MotherJessie Janet Woodrow
FatherJoseph Ruggles Wilson
Education
Occupation
  • Politician
  • academic
AwardsNobel Peace Prize (1919)
SignatureCursive signature in ink

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States between 1913 and 1921.[1] He was born in Virginia and grew up in Georgia.[1][2] In 1917, after the U.S. had been neutral, it got involved with the First World War. Because of Wilson, the League of Nations was founded.[3] Therefore, he received the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1919.[2] Between 1890 and 1902, Wilson worked as professor for law at Princeton University.[4][5]

He was one of the initiators of the League of Nations, the creation of which he strongly supported.[6] He died of a stroke in Washington DC at the age of 67.

  1. 1.0 1.1 "The biography of Thomas Woodrow Wilson by The White House". The US government. Archived from the original on 2009-01-22. Retrieved 2007-03-07.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "Biography of Thomas Woodrow Wilson – the Nobel Prize winner". The Nobel Foundation. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  3. "Woodrow Wilson (compiled with his approval by Hamilton Foley): Woodrow Wilson's Case for the League of Nations, Princeton University Press, Princeton 1923". Time.com. Archived from the original on 2011-04-06. Retrieved 2009-03-07.
  4. "Woodrow Wilson's biography". spartacus schoolnet. Archived from the original on 2011-11-28. Retrieved 2009-07-27.
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  6. "The American history – Woodrow Wilson". The New York Times Company. Archived from the original on 2009-03-19. Retrieved 2009-07-15.

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