Wilson as President of Princeton University. 1902. PD. The Wilson family bible records Thomas Woodrow Wilson's birth in Staunton, Virginia, "on the 28th December, 1856 at 12 3/4 o'clock at night." ...

Woodrow Wilson settled into his new job as president ... and wrest power away from entrenched interests. Wilson's official portrait. 1912. Courtesy: Library of Congress The Democrats carried ...

A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.

Woodrow Wilson was in law and academia before politics. After earning a Ph.D., he joined the Princeton faculty and became university president in 1902. By 1910, he was New Jersey’s governor.