Biography:

Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth President of the United States.
Wilson was born on December 28, 1856 in Virginia.  After graduating from Princeton University in 1879, Wilson studied law at the University of Virginia (1879-1873) and earned a Ph.D. in 1885 from Johns Hopkins University.  He became a professor and taught at Bryn Mawr College and Wesleyan University.  He married Ellen Louise Axson in 1885 and had three children.  She died in 1914.  Wilson later married Edith Bolling Galt in 1915.
In 1890, Wilson began working at Princeton University as a professor.  Twelve years later, in 1902, he became President of Princeton University and put forth a $12.5 million program that would forever transform Princeton University.   In 1910, United States Senator, James Smith, Jr. and New York editor George Harvey convinced Wilson to run for governor of New Jersey on the democratic ticket.  He won the election and served one term. 
In 1912 Wilson was nominated as the Democratic candidate for the office of President of the United States.  He ran against the Republican incumbent, William Howard Taft and the Progressive Party candidate, Theodore Roosevelt.  The split in the Republican Party vote helped Wilson to win the election.  He served two terms.  As president, Wilson worked with Congress to pass several social and economic reforms such as the Federal Reserve Act, the Child Labor Reform Act, and the 19th amendment which granted women the right to vote.  Wilson led the nation during World War I and tried to establish the League of Nations.  He suffered a stroke in 1919 and died on February 3, 1924.