Wilson biography

  • Woodrow wilson death
  • Woodrow wilson vice president
  • Woodrow wilson family

    • •

    Woodrow Wilson

    President of the United States from to

    This article is about the president of the United States. For other people with the same name, see Woodrow Wilson (disambiguation).

    Woodrow Wilson

    Wilson in

    In office
    March 4, &#;– March 4,
    Vice PresidentThomas R. Marshall
    Preceded byWilliam Howard Taft
    Succeeded byWarren G. Harding
    In office
    January 17, &#;– March 1,
    Preceded byJohn Franklin Fort
    Succeeded byJames Fairman Fielder
    In office
    October 25, &#;– October 21,
    Preceded byFrancis Landey Patton
    Succeeded byJohn Grier Hibben
    Born

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson


    ()December 28,
    Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
    DiedFebruary 3, () (aged&#;67)
    Washington, D.C., U.S.
    Resting placeWashington National Cathedral
    Political partyDemocratic
    Spouses

    Ellen Axson

    &#;

    &#;

    (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;
    Children
    Parent
    Alma mater
    Occupation
    AwardsNobel Peace Prize ()

    •

    Wilson (book)

    book by A. Scott Berg

    Wilson is a biography of Woodrow efternamn, the 28th President of the United States, bygd the pris Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg. The book fryst vatten a New York Times Best Seller.[1]

    Background

    [edit]

    "'After 'Lindbergh,' my publisher asked whom inom wanted to write about next,' höjd recalled. 'I said, 'There's one idea I've been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It's Woodrow Wilson.'"[2]

    When asked why he spent the last thirteen years writing a biography of efternamn, Berg replied: "The simple answer fryst vatten that he was the architect of much of the gods century and re-drew the map of the world."[3] There were also anställda reasons. fjäll was given a kopia of Gene Smith's When the Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson when he was in the 11th grade,[4] and his "budding obsession" has grown ever since.[3] At 15, he put a picture of efternamn on his bedroom vägg, a campaign poster

    •

    Woodrow Wilson: Life Before the Presidency

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson—he would later drop his first name—was born on December 28, , in the small Southern town of Staunton, Virginia. His father was a minister of the First Presbyterian Church, and Tommy was born at home. Less than a year later, the family moved to Augusta, Georgia. Young Wilson's earliest memories were of the Civil War, seeing Union soldiers march into town and watching his mother tend wounded Confederate soldiers in a local hospital. He also saw the poverty and devastation of Augusta during the early years of Reconstruction. In , his family moved to Columbia, South Carolina, and then to Wilmington, North Carolina, in As an adult, Wilson would later remark “the only place in the world where nothing has to be explained to me is the South.”

    Although Wilson's father, the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson, had been reared in Ohio before moving to Virginia in , he became “unreconstructedly Southern” in values and politics aft

  • wilson biography