The document provides biographical details about U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, including that he was born in 1856 in Virginia, attended Johns Hopkins University where he earned his PhD, and served as President of the United States from 1913 to 1921 where he advocated for American entry into World War 1 and the establishment of the League of Nations. It also discusses Wilson's early life, education, career as a professor and university president, and presidency including his Fourteen Points speech outlining a vision for world peace.

1. 100 YEARS FROM GREAT
UNION OF 1918
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2. Woodrow Wilson
President of the United States
Woodrow Wilson was born to a Scots-Irish American
family in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856, at 18–24 North
Coalter Street. He was the third of four children of Joseph Ruggles
Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow.
Wilson's paternal grandparents immigrated to the United
States from Strabane, County Tyrone, in 1807.
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.[10]
During Reconstruction, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina,
from 1870 to 1874, while his father was a theology professor at the
Theological Seminary.
Woodrow Wilson in 1919

3. In 1879, Wilson attended the
University of Virginia School of Law for one
year; he was involved in the Virginia Glee Club
and was president of the Jefferson Literary and
Debating Society. While there, he enjoyed
frequent trips to his birthplace of Staunton. He
visited with cousins, and fell in love with one,
Hattie Woodrow, though his affections were
unrequited.
In the fall of 1883, Wilson entered
Johns Hopkins University, a new graduate
university modeled after German universities. He
studied history, political science and the German
language. He also studied economics under
professor Richard T. Ely. Three years later, he
completed his doctoral dissertation.
Seal of the Johns Hopkins
University
Richard T. El

4. In late spring of 1883, Wilson was summoned to
Rome, Georgia, to assist in the settlement of his maternal uncle
William's estate, which was being mishandled by a brother-in-
law. While there he met and fell in love with Ellen Louise
Axson, the daughter of a minister from Savannah, Georgia; he
proposed to her and they became engaged in Asheville.
Wilson's marriage to Ellen was delayed by traumatic
developments in her family; in late 1883, Ellen's father Edward,
suffering from depression, was admitted to the Georgia State
Mental Hospital, where in 1884 he committed suicide.
Ellen Louise Axson

5. 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.
Wilson was elected president of the American Political
Science Association in 1910, but soon decided to leave his
Princeton post and enter New Jersey state politics. McGeorge
Bundy in 1956 described Wilson's contribution to Princeton:
"Wilson was right in his conviction that Princeton must be
more than a wonderfully pleasant and decent home for nice
young men; it has been more ever since his time"

6. After a vacation in Bermuda, Wilson was
energized and more aggressive, even combative. He
noted the presidency was an office "in which a man must
put on his war paint". In Chicago, he addressed the
Commercial Club, including some of the most powerful
industrial and financial leaders of the Midwest; he
emphasized his progressivism and called his audience to
account for their malpractices in business affairs.
In his inaugural address Wilson reiterated his
agenda for lower tariffs and banking reform, as well as
aggressive trust and labor legislation. The Wilsons
decided against an inaugural ball and instead gathered
with family and friends at the White House. As the first
Southerner elected to the presidency since 1848, Wilson
inspired celebrations in the capital.
Wilson defended his administration's
segregation policy in a July 1913 letter responding to
Oswald Garrison Villard, publisher of the New York
Evening Post and founding member of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People
(NAACP); Wilson suggested that segregation removed
"friction" between the races.
Official presidential portrait of
Woodrow Wilson (1913)

7. Wilson initiated a secret series of studies named The Inquiry,
primarily focused on Europe, and carried out by a group in New York
which included geographers, historians and political scientists; the group
was directed by Col. House. The studies culminated in a speech by Wilson
to Congress on January 8, 1918, wherein he articulated America's long term
war objectives. It was the clearest expression of intention made by any of
the belligerent nations. The speech, known as the Fourteen Points, was
authored mainly by Walter Lippmann and projected Wilson's progressive
domestic policies into the international arena. The first six dealt with
diplomacy, freedom of the seas and settlement of colonial claims. Then
territorial issues were addressed and the final point, the establishment of an
association of nations to guarantee the independence and territorial integrity
of all nations—a League of Nations. The address was translated into many
languages for global dissemination.
Group photo of Inquiry members

8. Bibliography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wils
on
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Inquiry
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johns_Hopkins_
University