Woodrow Wilson

BIRTH NAME
Thomas Woodrow Wilson

POLITICAL PARTY
Democrat

RELIGION
Presbyterian

EDUCATION
Davidson College; College of New Jersey (now Princeton) B.A. 1879; University of Virginia Law; Johns Hopkins University PhD

VITALS
5 ft 11 in / 170 lbs

CAREER
1882 Practiced law in Atlanta, Georgia
1885-88 Teacher, Bryn Mawr College
1888-90 Teacher, Wesleyan College
1890-1902 Chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy, College of New Jersey (renamed Princeton)
1902-11 President, Princeton, New Jersey
1911-13 Governor of New Jersey

PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
November 5, 1912
Popular: Wilson 6,293,152 (42%) Theodore Roosevelt 4,119,207 (28%) William H. Taft 3,486,333 (23%) Eugene V. Debs 900,369 (6%);
Electoral: Wilson 435 Roosevelt 88 Taft 8
November 7, 1916
Popular: Wilson 9,126,300 (49%) Charles Evans Hughes 8,546,789 (46%)
Electoral: Wilson 277 Hughes 254

VICE PRESIDENT
Thomas W. Marshall (1913-21)

ADMINISTRATION
Department of Labor, 17th Amendment (Direct election senators), Federal Reserve Act (1913); U.S. Invasion of Mexico, Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated (1914); German U-Boat sinks Lusitania (1916); Zimmermann Telegram, U.S. Declares War Against Germany (1917); 14 Points speech to Congress, Influenza pandemic, Armistice ends World War I (1918); 18th Amendment (Prohibition)(1919); 19th Amendment (Women’s suffrage), Nobel Peace Prize (1920)

SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS
James McReynolds, Louis Brandeis, John Clarke

FIRST LADIES
Ellen Louise Axson (1913-14)
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, daughter (1914-15)
Edith Bolling Galt (1915-21)

“All the peoples of the world are in effect partners in this interest, and for our own part we see very clearly that unless justice be done to others it will not be done to us.”
The Fourteen Points Speech, January 8, 1918

Portrait of Woodrow Wilson by S. Seymour Thomas, 1913.