Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3, 1924), was the twenty-eighth President of the United States. A devout Presbyterian and leading "intellectual" of the Progressive Era, he served as president of Princeton University then became the reform governor of New Jersey in 1910. With Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft dividing the Republican vote, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. He proved highly successful in leading a Democratic Congress to pass major legislation including the Federal Trade Commission, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Underwood Tariff, the Federal Farm Loan Act and most notably the Federal Reserve System.
"two-third Irish and that is why he is so human" | |
President Woodrow Wilson | |
Article from 1913
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President Wilson Ancestors from Down.....How odd that his vacation was in the same town as our Marmions from Down...Pass Christian MS................Brigitte Marmion See also: http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ww28.html Woodrow Wilson, Irish Americans, and the Election of 1916 |