Presidents of the United States of America
28 - Woodrow Wilson
Personal Statistics:
Birth Date: December 28, 1856
Birthplace: Presbyterian manse, Staunton, Virginia
Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903)
Mother: Janet Woodrow (1830-1888)
Height at Prime: About 5 feet 11 inches
Physical Description: Long face, blue-gray eyes, brown hair, high forehead, oversized ears, prominent jaw
Religion: Presbyterian
1st Wife: Ellen Louise Axson (May 15, 1860 – August 6, 1914)
1st Marriage Date: June 24, 1885
1st Marriage Place: Home of the bride’s paternal grandfather, Savannah, Georgia
Children:
-- Margaret Woodrow Wilson (April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944)
-- Jessie Woodrow Wilson Sayre (August 28, 1887 – January 15, 1933)
-- Eleanor Randolph Wilson McAdoo (October 16, 1889 – April 5, 1967)
2nd Wife: Edith Bolling Galt (October 15, 1872 – December 28, 1961)
2nd Marriage Date: December 18, 1915
2nd Marriage Place: Home of the bride, Washington, District of Columbia
Death Date: February 3, 1924
Place of Death: His home on S Street, Washington, District of Columbia
Cause of Death: Heart failure and paralysis from prior strokes
Final Words: “I am a broken piece of machinery. When the machinery is broken…â€â€I am ready.â€â€Edithâ€
Burial Place: Washington National Cathedral, Washington, District of Columbia
Professional Statistics:
Political economy and public law professor at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania (1885-1888)
History professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut (1888-1890)
Jurisprudence and political economy professor at Princeton University in New Jersey (1890-1902)
President of Princeton University (1902-1910)
Governor of New Jersey (1911-1913)
28th President of the United States (1913-1921)
Political Party: Democrat
His Vice President: Thomas Riley Marshall (1913-1921)
Events During Presidency:
Underwood Tariff (1913)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Seventeenth Amendment ratified (1913)
Federal Trade Commission (1914)
Clayton Anti-Trust Act (1914)
Child Labor Laws (1916)
Adamson Act (1916)
Relations with Mexico
World War I (1914-1918)
Eighteenth Amendment ratified (1919)
Nineteenth Amendment ratified (1920)