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In Staunton, Virginia to the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his wife Janet (Jessie) Woodrow Wilson.
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He returned in 1902 to serve as the university's president.
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Ellen Louise Axson, they had three daughters, Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor.
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In the campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor.
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Elected as the 28th President of the United States. He was 56 when we was elected, making him the oldest president at that time.
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The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed.
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Edith Bowling Galt. They were married for nine years.
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In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war, only the second declaration of war in U.S. history.
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Ideas were used for the Treaty of Versailles. This was Wilson's attempt to establish the League of Nations. "A general association of nations...affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike."
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Failed in the Senate.
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Paris Peace Conference influences the Treaty of Versailles.
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For efforts on League of Nations
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Suffered from health problems such as strokes.
