Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born to a family of Scots-Irish and Scottish descent, in Staunton, Virginia. He was the third of four children and the first son of Joseph Ruggles Wilsonand Jessie Janet Woodrow. Wilson's

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In 1883, Wilson met and fell in love with Ellen Louise Axson, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister from Savannah, Georgia. He proposed marriage in September 1883; she

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Professor
In late 1883, Wilson enrolled at the recently established Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for doctoral studies. Built on the

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By January 1910, Wilson had drawn the attention of James Smith Jr. and George Brinton McClellan Harvey, two leaders of New Jersey's Democratic

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Democratic nomination
Wilson became a prominent 1912 presidential contender immediately upon his election as Governor of New Jerseyin 1910, and his clashes with state party bosses enhanced his reputation with the rising Progressive

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After the election, Wilson chose William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State, and Bryan offered advice on the remaining members of Wilson's cabinet. William Gibbs McAdoo,

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After the end of his second term in 1921, Wilson and his wife moved from the White House to a town house in the Kaloramasection of Washington, D.C. He continued to follow politics as President Harding and the Republican Congress repudiated membership in the League

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