Woodrow Wilson | Wikipedia audio article
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Woodrow Wilson


00:03:58 1 Early life
00:06:17 2 Education
00:09:04 3 Marriage and family
00:10:11 4 Personal interests
00:10:57 5 Academic career
00:13:08 6 Political science author
00:13:18 6.1 U.S. and British system contrast
00:17:53 6.2 Public administration
00:20:15 7 President of Princeton University
00:25:55 8 Governor of New Jersey
00:30:05 9 Presidential election of 1912
00:30:16 9.1 Democratic nomination
00:34:20 9.2 General election
00:37:43 10 Presidency (1913–1921)
00:37:54 10.1 First term (1913–1917)
00:43:22 10.1.1 Tariff legislation and income tax
00:44:19 10.1.2 Federal Reserve System
00:46:46 10.1.3 Antitrust and other measures
00:48:51 10.1.4 Mexican Revolution
00:49:55 10.1.4.1 Pancho Villa
00:51:32 10.1.5 Miners strike, wife's death and remarriage
00:54:29 10.1.6 Events leading to U.S. entry into World War I (1914–16)
01:00:59 10.2 Presidential election of 1916
01:05:46 10.3 Second term (1917–1921)
01:05:58 10.3.1 Entry into World War I
01:11:08 10.3.2 Home front
01:14:15 10.3.3 The Fourteen Points
01:15:22 10.3.4 Peace Conference 1919
01:19:10 10.3.5 Treaty fight, 1919
01:21:49 10.3.6 Post war: 1919–1920
01:23:22 10.3.7 Other foreign affairs
01:26:34 10.3.8 Incapacity
01:28:28 10.3.9 Prohibition
01:30:12 10.3.10 Women's suffrage
01:32:02 10.3.11 Post war economic depression
01:32:27 10.4 Administration and Cabinet
01:33:05 10.5 Judicial appointments
01:33:14 10.5.1 Supreme Court
01:33:58 10.5.2 Other courts
01:34:16 11 Final years and death
01:36:59 12 Race relations
01:43:12 13 Memorials
01:45:22 14 Works
01:46:21 15 Media
01:46:29 16 See also
01:47:02 17 Notes
01:47:11 18 Bibliography
01:47:20 18.1 Biographical



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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and as Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, before winning the 1912 presidential election. As president, he oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933. He also led the United States during World War I, establishing an activist foreign policy known as "Wilsonianism." He was one of the three key leaders at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference, where he championed a new League of Nations, but he was unable to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the League.
Born in Staunton, Virginia, to a slaveholding family, Wilson spent his early years in Augusta, Georgia, and Columbia, South Carolina. His father was a leading Southern Presbyterian and helped to found the Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America. After earning a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University, Wilson taught at various schools before taking a position at Princeton. In 1910, Democratic leaders recruited him to run for Governor of New Jersey. Serving from 1911 to 1913, Wilson broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson's success in New Jersey gave him a national reputation as a progressive reformer, and his Southern roots helped him win favor in that region. After several ballots, the 1912 Democratic National Convention selected Wilson as the party's presidential nominee. Theodore Roosevelt's third-party candidacy split the Republican Party, which re-nominated incumbent President William Howard Taft. Wilson won the 1912 election with a plurality of the popular vote and a large majority in the Electoral College.
Upon taking office, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, introducing a federal income tax which provided revenue lost when tariffs were sharply lowered. He also presided over the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system in the form of the Federal Reserve System. Other ma ...