1. Resume
   1. 1902 - 1910: 13th President of Princeton University
   2. 1911 - 1913: 34th Governor of New Jersey
   3. 1913 - 1921: 28th President of the United States
2. Chronology
   1. 1856: Born in Staunton, Virginia
   2. 1870 - 1874: Lived in Columbia, South Carolina during Reconstruction
   3. 1873 - 1874: Attended Davidson College
   4. 1879: Graduated from Princeton after transferring when his father took a teaching position at the university
   5. 1879: Attended law school at the University of Virginia for one year
   6. 1882: Started a law practice in Atlanta
   7. 1882: Passed the Georgia bar
   8. 1883 - 1885: Applied to the Johns Hopkins University to study for a doctorage in history and political science
   9. 1885: Married Ellen Louise Axson
   10. 1886 - 1887: A visiting lecturer at Cornell University, but failed to gain a permanent position
   11. 1890: Joined the Princeton faculty as professor of jurisprudence and political economy
   12. 1902: Promoted to president of Princeton
   13. 1910: Ran for Governor of New Jersey, focusing on his independence from machine politics
   14. 1913 - 1917: First term as president
   15. 1914: First wife died, casting him into a deep depression
   16. 1915: Married Edith Galt, a direct descendant of Pocahontas
   17. 1919: Suffered a serious stroke that almost totailly incapacitated him, leaving him paralyzed on his left side and blind in his left eye
3. Notables
   1. Leader of the Progressive Movement
   2. Persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms
   3. Successfully pushed a legislative agenda that few presidents have equaled
   4. Agenda included Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm Loan Act and an income tax
   5. Child labor was curtailed by the Keating-Owen Act of 1916, but the Supreme Court declared it unconstitutional in 1918
   6. Had Congress pass the Adamson Act, which imposed an 8-hour workday for railroads
   7. Became a major advocate for women's suffrage after public pressure convinced him that to oppose women's suffrage was politically unwise
   8. Had full control of American entry into World War I
   9. 1917: Began the United States' first draft since the American Civil War
   10. 1919: went to Paris to create the League of Nations and shape the Treaty of Versailles, but the Republican-controlled Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles and the U.S. never joined the League
   11. An intellectual with very high writing standards
   12. Awared the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for his sponsorship of the League of Nations
   13. His earliest memory at age three was of hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming
   14. He recalls standing for a moment at Robert E. Lee's side and looking up into his face
   15. Was over ten years of age before he learned to read
   16. One of only three presidents to be widowed while in office
   17. Early automobile enthusiast, and he took daily rides while he was President
   18. Avid baseball fan, becoming the first sitting president to attend a World Series game in 1915
   19. Concerned with the implementation of government
   20. Wilson left academe with an outstanding reputation as educator and reformer, having set Princeton on the path to becoming one of America's great universities
   21. First Southerner in the White House since 1869
   22. Since 1856, he and Grover Cleveland were the only Democrats elected president
   23. Lowered tariffs with the Underwood Tariff in 1913, though World War I overwhelmed the effects
   24. The Smith-Lever Act of 1914 created the modern system of agricultural extension agents sponsored by the state agricultural colleges
   25. The 1916 Federal Farm Loan Act provided for issuance of low-cost long-term mortgages to farmers
   26. Federal Trade Commission stopped perceived unfair trade practices
   27. Clayton Antitrust Act made certain business practices illegal
   28. Spent 1914 - 1917 trying to keep America out of the war in Europe
   29. Germany's attempt to enlist Mexico as an ally against the U.S. finally made Wilson take America into World War I to make "the world safe for democracy."
   30. Pushed through Congress the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 to suppress anti-British, pro-German, or anti-war opinions
   31. Mere criticism of the Wilson administration and its war policy became grounds for arrest and imprisonment
   32. Many recent foreign immigrants, resident aliens who opposed America's participation in World War I, were eventually deported to Soviet Russia or other nations under the sweeping powers granted in the Immigration Act of 1918
   33. Frequently intervened in Latin American affairs, and the Panama Canal was opening
   34. First U.S. president to travel to Europe while in office when he went to Paris for the Peace Conference
   35. Historians cite Wilson's failure to compromise with the Republicans on U.S. entry into the League as one of the 10 largest errors on the part of an American president
   36. Demobilization proved chaotic and violent - four million soldiers were sent home with little planning, little money, and few benefits
   37. Had one of the most serious cases of presidential disability in American history and was later cited as an argument for the 25th Amendment, which deals with succession to the presidency
   38. Described as a racist, viewed blacks as related to the animal world