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28 — WOODROW WILSON

Woodrow Wilson originally named Thomas Woodrow Wilson after his maternal grandfather, Rev. Thomas Woodrow

Born: December 28, 1856 (1856-12-28)Staunton, Virginia
Died: February 03, 1924 (aged 67) Washington, D.C.
Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson
Mother: Jessie Janet Woodrow Wilson
Spouse: Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914), on June 24, 1885; Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961), on December 18 , 1915
Education: Graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1879)
Occupation: Academic (Political scientist), Lawyer
Religion: Presbyterian
Took office: March 4, 1913
Left office: March 4, 1921
Party: Democratic
Presidential Salary: $75,000/year
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)
Preceded by: William Howard Taft
Succeeded by: Warren G. Harding
Other Government Positions
  • Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13
Notable Events
  • 1914-1918
    World War I
Presidential Nicknames
  • The Schoolmaster in Politics or The Professor: He was a bespectacled academic; compare to Italian Prime Minister (and former President of the European Commission) Romano Prodi's nickname Il Professore (the professor/schoolteacher).
  • The Coiner of Weasel Words: “In 1916, Theodore Roosevelt accused President Woodrow Wilson of "weasel words", meaning that words from which the original meaning had been sucked”.
  • The Phrase-Maker: As an acclaimed historian, Wilson had no need of speech-writers to supply his oratorical eloquence

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