General information

Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
President order: 28
Democrat
Born in Virginia
Sworn in on 3/4/1913
Age at inauguration: 56
2 terms

Biography

Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the 
United States from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President 
of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 
to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote, 
Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He is the only U.S. President to hold a 
Ph.D. degree, which he obtained from Johns Hopkins University.

Early life:
Wilson was born in Staunton, Virginia on December 28, 1856 as the third of four children of 
Reverend Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822–1903) and Jessie Janet Woodrow (1826–1888). His 
ancestry was Scottish and Scots-Irish. His paternal grandparents immigrated to the United 
States from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland (now Northern Ireland), in 1807. His mother was 
born in Carlisle, in England, the daughter of Rev. Dr. Thomas Woodrow, born in Paisley, 
Scotland and Marion Williamson from Glasgow. His grandparents' whitewashed house has become 
a tourist attraction in Northern Ireland.

Marriage and family:
In 1885, he married Ellen Louise Axson, the daughter of a minister from Rome, Georgia. They 
had three daughters: Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886–1944) Jessie Wilson (1887–1933) and 
Eleanor R. Wilson (1889–1967).Axson died in 1914, and in 1915 Wilson married Edith Galt.
 Wilson is one of only three presidents to be widowed while in office.

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