woodrow wilson

On December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia, Woodrow Thomas Wilson was born to parents John Ruggles Wilson and Janet Woodrow. His parents were of Scottish heritage, they were also educated and religious. John Wilson had studied to be a clergy-man at what is now Princeton University. Yet, when he and Janet married in the early 1850’s, they moved to Virginia where he became a teacher at Hampton-Sydney College. Later, in 1855, he became a minister at a church …showed first 75 words of 7308 total…

…showed last 75 words of 7308 total…Wilson took a stroke in Kansas. The stroke, however, was not shared with the public at the time. In 1920, the Democratic Party chose to nominate James M. Cox from Ohio for President. When Wilson finished his term as President in March 1921, he retired in Washington D.C. and was not really heard from publicly. On February 3, 1924 he died at the age of sixty-eight and he was buried in Washington D.C. at the National Cathedral.