Martinsburg statesman-democrat. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1906-1921, 1913-03-07

o Career of the New President o
Born at Stanton Va, %, 1856, the of Rev.
o Joseph R and Mrs Jessie Woodrow Wilson o
Passed his boyhood in the South, residing at Augusta,
Ca Columbia S. c., and Wilmington N Co. where his ia
Their occupied pups o
Entered Princeton College in 1879 and graduated
with high honors four years later o
Entered the law department Of the University 0o Of Virginia
Opened a law Office in Atlanta in May 1882, and
Married "a 1885 Miss Helen Louise Arson, of
Savannah and later in the year became professor of
Renamed at Bryn Mawr three years when resigned
to accept similar professorship at Wesleyan University
eminent which made for him name as scholar and
His next book 'The State published in 1885, was the
work English present the subject of the
Resigned his chair at Wesleyan in 1890 become pro-
fessor of jurisprudence and politics at Princeton Unive
o In 1893 division and Reunion" IAN Master and
Other Political Essays" and Mere Literature and Other
In 1896 the publication Of George Washington added
to his reputation as writer and historian 1000 o
o coed DR.. Francis L. Patton o
States, said to be the first important work of its kind writ
o Named by the Democratic party governor of
Jersey in 1870 elected in November of that and in
augurated January II, 1911
In the Of 1911 his first prominently
connected with the presidential nomination mi m
the Democratic party for president at Baltimore July q
o at seagirt N j. August 7, 1912 o
Elected tWentyeghth president OF the United States
Nov s. 1872 receiving 435 electoral votes out of total of
SOL o
Resigned the governorshp of New Jersey March l. 1913
in anticipation of his inauguration president o
Left Trenton for Washington March B. 1913 escorted by
practically the entire student body of Princeton University
naugurated president of United States March d.
1913 the first democrat to hold the Office in sixteen
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WASHINGTON March 4-Woodrow Wilson stood beside
Chief Justice White United Supreme Court
the poco of the Capitol and took the oath of Office
the twenty seventh president of the United States.
Wilson took the oath of Office at 1876 o'clock and
began his inaugural address Immediately.
(The address will be found in full on another page)
the oath the Presdenec ordered the West
Point Annapolis cadets which the stand and
the people back hundred yards to be moved the
people could hear his speech.
There thousand the immense stand which
had the east front of the Capitol and
thousands packed the front of the Capitol
was eight minutes of o'clock this morning when
Presdeneect Wilson, with Vicepresdenteect Marshall and
President Taft arrived the Capitol They to
the Presidents
While gathering the outside of the
building for the inaugural the impressive of ndu
ing into the Vice-Presdent going Senate
empore Gainger of the Senate the oath which qualified
him as the Vice-President of the republic
Witnessing this ceremony the members of House
and Senate members-elec of both houses President
and Presdenteec the Supreme Court of the United States
representatives of the foreign and other dis
tngushed personages
After VcePresdent Marshall had taken the brief oath Of Of
delivered his inaugural address the senator's who
had recently been elected were sworn in Office