Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson Adam Cushman


Wilson was born in Virginia, and became president of Princeton University in 1902. In 1910 he became governor of New Jersey. Elected president in 1912 against Theodore Roosevelt and William Taft, he initiated anti-trust legislation and secured valuable social reforms in his progressive New Freedom' program. He strove to keep the USA neutral during World War I but the German U-boat campaign forced him to declare war in 191...