Already a member? LOGIN Encyclopædia Britannica - the Online Encyclopedia Home | Blog | Advocacy | Board | Newsletters | International | Store | Free Trial Britannica Onlin e Cont ent Re lated t o this Topic Woodrow Wilson 5 2 Encyclopædia Britannica Page 1 of 5 Article 12 6 born 59 December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia, U.S. died February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C. This Article's Table of Contents Introduction Early life, education, and governorship First term as president Second term as president in full Thomas Woodrow Wilson 28th president of the United States (1913–21), an Later years American scholar and statesman best Additional Reading remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his high-minded Print this Table of Contents idealism. Wilson led his country into World Woodrow War I and became the creator and leading Linked Articles Wilson. advocate of the League of Nations, for which Encyclopædia he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Ellen Wilson Britannica, Inc. Peace. During his second term the Edith Wilson Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the right to vote, was passed and Princeton ratified. He suffered a paralytic stroke while seeking American Democratic Party public support for the Treaty of Versailles (October 1919), and his incapacity, which lasted for the rest of his term of office, New Jersey caused the worst crisis of presidential disability in American history. (For a discussion of the history and nature of the Theodore Roosevelt presidency, see presidency of the United States of America. Progressive (Bull Moose) See also Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson.) Party William Howard Taft Special Offer! Activate a FREE trial to Britannica Online, New Nationalism your complete (re)search engine for when you need to be right. First Inaugural Address S hoppin g Early life, education, and governorship New! Britannica Book of Wilson's father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, was a Presbyterian the Year minister who had moved to Virginia from Ohio and was the son http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9077135/Woodrow-Wilson.