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  Wilson, Woodrow
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AffiliationDemocratic  
<-  1919-01-01  
 
NameWoodrow Wilson
Address
Princeton, New Jersey , United States
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Born December 28, 1856
DiedFebruary 03, 1924 (67 years)
ContributorJake
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Mar 22, 2021 01:03pm
Tags Caucasian - Married - Widowed - Christian - Presbyterian -
InfoLike Roosevelt before him, Woodrow Wilson regarded himself as the personal representative of the people. “No one but the President,” he said, “seems to be expected … to look out for the general interests of the country.” He developed a program of progressive reform and asserted international leadership in building a new world order. In 1917 he proclaimed American entrance into World War I a crusade to make the world “safe for democracy.”

Wilson had seen the frightfulness of war. He was born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a Presbyterian minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina.

After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and entered upon an academic career. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson.

Wilson advanced rapidly as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.

His growing national reputation led some conservative Democrats to consider him Presidential timber. First they persuaded him to run for Governor of New Jersey in 1910. 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.

He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states’ rights. In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote.

Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices.

Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. One new law prohibited child labor; another limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day. By virtue of this legislation and the slogan “he kept us out of war,” Wilson narrowly won re-election.

But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the World War. On April 2,1917, he asked Congress for a declaration of war on Germany.

Massive American effort slowly tipped the balance in favor of the Allies. Wilson went before Congress in January 1918, to enunciate American war aims–the Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish “A general association of nations…affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike.”

After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try to build an enduring peace. He later presented to the Senate the Versailles Treaty, containing the Covenant of the League of Nations, and asked, “Dare we reject it and break the heart of the world?”

But the election of 1918 had shifted the balance in Congress to the Republicans. By seven votes the Versailles Treaty failed in the Senate.

The President, against the warnings of his doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment for the treaty. Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Tenderly nursed by his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924.

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06/13/2007-06/24/2007 Rasmussen Reports 56.00% ( 0.0) 19.00% ( 0.0) 25.00% ( 0.0)

BOOKS
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The Papers of Woodrow Wilson  Purchase Jake 
Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics  Purchase Jake 

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NEWS
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Jul 31, 2007 12:00pm News Webb, Warner Introduce Bill To Establish Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library In Virginia  Article The Sunset Provision 

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FAMILY
Wife Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 00, 1885-Aug 06, 1914
Wife Edith Bolling Galt Wilson Dec 18, 1915-Feb 03, 1924
Daughter Margaret Woodrow Wilson 1886-1944
Daughter Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre 1887-1933
Grandson Woodrow Wilson Sayre 1919-2002
Daughter Eleanor Wilson McAdoo 1889-1967

INFORMATION LINKS
Final Address in Support of the League of Nations - Woodrow Wilson  Discuss
President Woodrow Wilson Inaugural Address March 4, 1913  Discuss
President Woodrow Wilson Inaugural Address March 5, 1917  Discuss
The Fourteen Points - Woodrow Wilson  Discuss
The League of Nations - Woodrow Wilson  Discuss
War Message - Woodrow Wilson  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - "A World League for Peace" Speech (January 22, 1917)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - "The Opinion of the World" Speech (October 20, 1914)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Address at Congress Hall, Philadelphia (October 25, 1913)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Address at Gettysburg (July 4, 1913)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Address to a Joint Session of Congress on Trusts and Monopolies (January 20, 1914)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Eighth Annual Message (December 7, 1920)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Fifth Annual Message (December 4, 1917)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - First Annual Message (December 2, 1913)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Fourth Annual Message (December 5, 1916)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Message on Neutrality (August 20, 1914)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Proclamation 1364 (April 6, 1917)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Second Annual Message (December 8, 1914)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Seventh Annual Message (December 2, 1919)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Sixth Annual Message (December 2, 1918)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Speech of Acceptance (September 2, 1916)  Discuss
Woodrow Wilson - Third Annual Message (December 7, 1915)  Discuss
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