Wilson as President of Princeton University. 1902. PD. The Wilson family bible records Thomas Woodrow Wilson's birth in Staunton, Virginia, "on the 28th December, 1856 at 12 3/4 o'clock at night." ...
A Southerner and a Democrat, Woodrow Wilson rode the Progressive Movement into the White House in 1912. For his second term campaign in 1916, he promised to keep the USA neutral and not to enter WWI.