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- Birth nameThomas Woodrow Wilson
- Nicknames
- The Professor
- The Schoolmaster in Politics
- The Phrasemaker
- Coiner of Weasel Words
- Height5′ 11″ (1.80 m)
- Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American politician and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his progressive stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Bonitao
- Woodrow Wilson, who was born as the third of four children to the couple, was of Scottish descent on his mother's side and of Scottish-Irish descent on his father's side. Wilson's father had a doctorate in theology and was a minister in the Presbyterian Church, but he saw no contradiction in slavery and kept his own slaves. Wilson prepared for college in private schools in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. He then studied at Princeton University (1875-1879), where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1879.
Wilson then studied law for a year at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville and then completed a three-year legal internship in Atlanta, Georgia (1880-1883). During this time he decided to become a teacher. In 1883 he studied history and political science at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore; In 1886 he received his doctorate in philosophy on the subject of "Congressional Government". From 1885 to 1888 he was a teacher at Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, a prestigious college for girls. In 1888 he became professor of history and economics at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut.
From 1890 he was professor of law and economics at Princeton University, where he was also its rector from 1902 to 1910. From 1887 to 1898 he also worked as a lecturer in administrative sciences at Johns Hopkins University. In June 1885 he married his wife Ellen Luise, née Axsen, a native of Savannah, Georgia; The marriage resulted in three daughters. On November 8, 1910, he was appointed governor of New Jersey. From this office he was elected 28th President of the United States of America on December 5, 1912 in Washington and sworn into office on March 4, 1913. The beginning of his administration was overshadowed by the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado and the beginning of the First World War in his second year in office in 1914.
In the same year he declared America's neutrality in the First World War. In terms of domestic policy, the liberal reformer prevailed against high finance. The aim was to reduce customs duties and general taxes. In terms of foreign policy, he pursued a policy of open borders with the USA in Latin America. Furthermore, the Federal Central Bank, the antitrust law and tax progression were created under his policies. In 1916, the United States occupied the Dominican Republic and the American government purchased the Virgin Islands from Denmark. As a result of the expansion of the First World War, the American armed forces were strengthened with the "National Defense Act".
In the 1916 presidential election, Woodrow Wilson was clearly confirmed in office on December 7th. In April 1917, the United States entered World War I as a result of Russia's February Revolution. On April 6th, Wilson officially declared war against the German Reich and in May the general selective conscription law was passed. On November 11, 1918, the German Empire surrendered unconditionally and in January 1919, the Hoover Plan was implemented to support the civilian population with food. The "14 Point Peace Embassy Treaty" was concluded in Paris on April 28, 1919 and the Versailles Treaties were signed in Versailles on June 28, 1919.
On September 25, 1919, Woodrow Wilson suffered a nervous breakdown that left him unable to work for weeks. After his recovery, the Senate voted in favor of Wilson's veto of the Prohibition Act, and the USA refused to ratify the Versailles Treaty. In December 1919, 249 communists living in the USA were deported to the Soviet Union. In January 1920, numerous mass arrests of other communists followed. Among them were the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti. On September 26, 1920, women were given the right to vote and on December 10, 1920, Woodrow Wilson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
His second term ended in March 1921. Warren Harding was sworn in as his successor to the office of US presidency on March 4, 1921.
Woodrow Thomas Wilson died on February 3, 1924, at the age of 67.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Christian_Wolfgang_Barth - Woodrow Wilson is an American politician, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Tango Papa
- SpousesEdith Galt Wilson(December 18, 1915 - February 3, 1924) (his death)Ellen Axson Wilson(June 24, 1885 - August 6, 1914) (her death, 3 children)
- The only US President buried in Washington, DC.
- Was a Government Professor at Princeton University, and later President of the University. This makes him the first of only two professional educators to become President. The second was Lyndon B. Johnson.
- When Confederate president, Jefferson Davis was being taken to prison in May, 1865, his carriage passed through Augusta, Georgia. Woodrow Wilson was among the onlookers along with his father, the town's Presbyterian minister.
- 28th President of the United States, 4 March 1913 - 3 March 1921.
- Was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.
- [After viewing The Birth of a Nation (1915)]: It was like writing history with lightning. It is all so terribly true.
- [1920: Upon hearing that the Senate had defeated his proposal for the League of Nations] They have shamed us in the eyes of the world.
- Never murder a man who is committing suicide.
- All that progressives desire is permission to interpret the Constitution according to Darwinian principle.
- [on dreams] All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let our dreams die, but others nourish and protect them, nurse them through bad days till they bring them to sunshine and light, which always come to those who sincerely believe that their dreams will come true.
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