US President, Woodrow Wilson

1. Lector univ. Mihai Daniel Frumuşelu
Student: Radu Cosmin
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2. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 –
February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and
academic who served as the 28th President of the
United States from 1913 to 1921.
A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served
as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to
1910
He also led the United States during World War I,
establishing an activist foreign policy known as
"Wilsonianism." He was one of the three key leaders at
the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he
championed a new League of Nations, but he was
unable to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in
the League.
WHO?

3.  Wilson began reading at age ten; the delayed start
was possibly caused by dyslexia. He later blamed
the lack of schools. As a teen, he taught himself
the Graham shorthand system to compensate, and
achieved academically with self-discipline,
studying at home with his father, then in classes at
a small Augusta, Georgia school.
During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia,
South Carolina, from 1870 to 1874, while his father
was a theology professor at the Columbia
Theological Seminary.

4. Wilson was an automobile enthusiast and,
while President, he took daily rides in his favorite
car, a 1919 Pierce-Arrow. His enjoyment of
motoring made him an advocate of funding for
public highways.
He was also an avid baseball fan, and in 1915
became the first sitting president to attend and
throw out the first ball at a World Series game.
Wilson had been a center fielder during his
Davidson College days and was the Princeton
team's assistant manager. Also, he cycled
regularly, taking several cycling vacations in the
English Lake District. Wilson later took up golf.

5. Wilson worked as a lecturer at Cornell
University in 1886–87, where he joined the Irving
Literary Society. He next taught at Bryn Mawr
College from 1885 until 1888, teaching ancient Greek
and Roman history; while there, he refused offers from
the universities of Michigan and Indiana.
When Ellen was pregnant with their first child in
1886, the couple decided that Ellen should go to her
Aunt Louisa Brown's residence in Gainesville, Georgia,
to have their first child; she arrived just one day before
the baby, Margaret, was born in April 1886. Their
second child, Jessie, was born in August 1887

6. Wilson had in the past been offered the
presidency at the University of Illinois in
1892, and at the University of Virginia in
1901, both of which he declined.
The Princeton trustees promoted
Professor Wilson to president in June
1902, replacing Francis Landey Patton,
whom the trustees perceived to be an
inefficient administrator.

8. After the end of his second term in 1921,
Wilson and his wife moved from the White
House to an elegant 1915 town house in
the Embassy Row section of Washington,
D.C.
Wilson continued daily drives, and
attended Keith's vaudeville theatre on
Saturday nights. Wilson was one of only two
U.S. Presidents (Theodore Roosevelt was the
first) to have served as president of
the American Historical Association.