Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia. His father was Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his mother was Jessie Janet Woodrow Wilson. He graduated from The College of New Jersey (now Princeton University). He went on to earn his law degree from the University of Virginia and his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University. He served as our nation’s 28^th President from March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921.

     Woodrow Wilson was a professor of political science at Princeton and eventually became that university’s president. He was later Governor of New Jersey. World War I started in Europe in 1914, but Wilson kept America out of it. He campaigned for re-election promising he would continue to keep the U.S. out of the war but, soon after his second inauguration, he asked Congress to declare war on Germany. After The Armistice took effect, ending the war (November 11, 1918), Mr. Wilson went to Paris to draft the Treaty of Versailles. He proposed “14 Points” for the post-war world, including the establishment of a “League of Nations”. Congress rejected the Treaty and kept the U.S. out of The League.

     Mr. Wilson married Ellen Louise Axson in 1885. They had three children: Margaret, Jessie and Eleanor. Mrs. Wilson died in 1914. Mr. Wilson later wed Edith Bolling Galt (1915).

     President Woodrow Wilson died from complications of a stroke on February 23, 1924 in Washington, D.C. He was 67.