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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era, when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson made significant economic reforms and led the United States through World War I. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and hi…
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Born 28 December 1856 · Died 3 February 1924 · Q34296
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2026· 20 entries
“public not private, [and] must be vested in the government itself so that the banks must be the instruments, not the masters, of business.”
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“by forbidding child labor, by supervising the sanitary conditions of factories, by limiting the employment of women in occupations hurtful to their health, by instituting official tests of the purity or the quality of goods sold, by limiting the hours of labor in certain trades, [and] by a hundred and one limitations of the power of unscrupulous or heartless men to out-do the scrupulous and merciful in trade or industry.”
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WVNS: Woodrow Wilson HS Football looking to make some noise in AAAA in 2026
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The Register-Herald: Boys prep soccer: Ackon-Annan's last-minute goal helps Woodrow Wilson draw with Wheeling Park - The Register-Herald
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Legacy obituary: Woodrow Wilson Gossett Obituary (2026) - Philadelphia, PA - Ervina White Beauford Funeral Service, PC - Philadelphia
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In Pursuit | Substack: Woodrow Wilson by Patricia O'Toole
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Post and Courier: George Woodrow Wilson, Jr. Obituary (1953 - 2026) - Lincolnton, NC
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Mshale: United States Nevada Election Results 1912: WOODROW WILSON Winner, Democrat, THEODORE ROOSEVELT, ... First Take (9qxyGqBhK9)
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Encyclopaedia Britannica: Treaty of Versailles, World War I, Woodrow Wilson
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The Guardian: Are Manchester United returning to relevance under Michael Carrick? | Jonathan Wilson
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Legacy obituary: Woodrow Wilson Carter Jr. Obituary (2026) - Rancho Cucamonga, CA - Snyder's Care Center - Rancho Cucamonga
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WVVA: Football Preseason Preview: Woodrow Wilson Looks to Grow On Last Year Success
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Public attention spiked: 11,489 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 3,779, with 0 article edits.
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2025· 2 entries
RealClearPolitics: Woodrow Wilson, Tariff Slayer
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Woodrow Wilson private papers birth certificate” No Record.
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2024· 4 entries
Snopes.com rated the claim “The list of U.S. presidents before Biden who pardoned family members includes George H.W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Woodrow Wilson.” Mixture.
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Wall Street Journal: ‘Woodrow Wilson’ Review: Liberty Limited
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Yahoo: The last days of Woodrow Wilson
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New York Daily News: Woodrow Wilson’s cautionary tale
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2020· 3 entries
Published “Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019” in The Lancet — cited 16,066 times.
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Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,900 times.
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Published “The mutational constraint spectrum quantified from variation in 141,456 humans” in Nature — cited 9,228 times.
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2018· 3 entries
Conservative columnist George Will wrote in The Washington Post that Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson were the "progenitors of today's imperial presidency"
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Published “Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017” in The Lancet — cited 11,021 times.
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Published “PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation” in Annals of Internal Medicine — cited 36,799 times.
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2015· 1 entry
Published “A global reference for human genetic variation” in Nature — cited 17,862 times.
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2012· 3 entries
Snopes rated the claim “A tradition of celebrating Veterans Day with ravioli dinners was initiated by President Woodrow Wilson in 1919.” False.
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Published “A comparative risk assessment of burden of disease and injury attributable to 67 risk factors and risk factor clusters in 21 regions, 1990–2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010” in The Lancet — cited 9,269 times.
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Published “Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data” in Bioinformatics — cited 18,019 times.
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2011· 1 entry
Published “Overview of the <i>CCP</i> 4 suite and current developments” in Acta Crystallographica Section D Biological Crystallography — cited 11,981 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Awarded New Jersey Hall of Fame (2010).
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2001· 1 entry
Published “Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome” in Nature — cited 18,639 times.
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1978· 1 entry
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of cosmic microwave background radiation.
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1956· 2 entries
McGeorge Bundy described Wilson's contribution to Princeton: "Wilson was right in his conviction that Princeton must be more than a wonderfully pleasant and decent home for nice young men; it has been more ever since his
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And was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985
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1944· 1 entry
20th Century Fox released Wilson, a biopic about Wilson starring Alexander Knox and directed by Henry King, considered an "idealistic" portrayal of Wilson
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1938· 1 entry
“It is our heartfelt desire and hope that some way may be opened whereby we may be privileged to assist the people of Russia to attain their utmost hope of liberty...”
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1924· 5 entries
Died 1924-02-03.
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“The only reason I read a book is because I cannot see and converse with the man who wrote it.”
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“Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.”
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“We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true.”
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“America cannot be an ostrich with its head in the sand.”
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1923· 1 entry
Wilson made his last national address, delivering a short Armistice Day radio speech from the library of his home
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1921· 2 entries
Wilson and his wife moved from the White House to a townhouse in the Kalorama section of Washington, D
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Wilson opened a law practice with former secretary of state Bainbridge Colby
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1920· 5 entries
Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize "for his role as founder of the League of Nations"
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Election won: 1920 election.
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Campaign: 1920 election.
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The economy plunged into a severe economic depression, unemployment rose to 12 percent, and the price of agricultural products sharply declined
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The Wall Street bombing on September 16 killed 40 and injured hundreds in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil up to that point
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1919· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for his role as founder of the League of Nations.
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Wilson suffered a serious stroke, leaving him paralyzed on his left side, and with only partial vision in the right eye
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1919).
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“Opis: 12 stycznia 1919 na konferencji pokojowej w Paryżu.”
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Strikes in major industries broke out, disrupting the economy
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Another series of race riots occurred in Chicago, Omaha, and two dozen other major cities in the North
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1918· 3 entries
Awarded doctor honoris causa from the University of Paris (1918).
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Wilson delivered a speech, known as the Fourteen Points, wherein he articulated his administration's long term war objectives
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Wilson spoke out against lynching in the United States, stating: "I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of mob or gives it any sort of continence is no true son of this great democracy but its be
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1917· 1 entry
Established the first modern propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel
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1916· 5 entries
Wilson purchased by treaty the Danish West Indies, renamed as the United States Virgin Islands
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Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Court, setting off a major debate in the Senate over Brandeis's progressive ideology and his religion; Brandeis was the first Jewish nominee to the Supreme Court
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Pushed Congress to enact the eight-hour work day for railroad workers, which ended a major strike
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Wilson appointed progressive lawyer John Hessin Clarke
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After intense campaigns by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) and the National Consumers League, the Congress passed the Keating–Owen Act, making it illegal to ship goods in interstate commerce if they were made i
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1915· 2 entries
Wilson met Edith Bolling Galt at a White House tea
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And it played a key role in financing the Allied and American war efforts in World War I
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1914· 5 entries
Their third child Eleanor married William Gibbs McAdoo, U
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Wilson nominated sitting attorney general James Clark McReynolds
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Wilson dispatched soldiers to help bring an end to the Colorado Coalfield War, one of the deadliest labor disputes in American history
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Foreign affairs increasingly dominated his presidency
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Became Secretary of the Treasury, and James Clark McReynolds, who had successfully prosecuted several prominent antitrust cases, was chosen as Attorney General
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1913· 2 entries
"I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men
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Career landmark: President of the United States (1913–1921).
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1912· 4 entries
Found themselves bitterly disappointed by the Wilson presidency, his decision to allow the imposition of Jim Crow within the federal bureaucracy in particular
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Hibben stunned Wilson by taking the lead against Wilson's pet reform plan
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Career landmark: President-elect of the United States (1912–1913).
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Two years after Wilson left Princeton, Hibben became president of Princeton
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1911· 3 entries
After liberals overthrew the military dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz
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Because he believed women lacked the public experience needed to be good voters
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Career landmark: Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913).
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1910· 1 entry
And his clashes with state party bosses enhanced his reputation with the rising Progressive movement
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1909· 1 entry
Princeton's board accepted a gift made to the graduate school campaign subject to the graduate school being located off campus
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1907· 1 entry
There was general agreement to create some sort of central banking system to provide a more elastic currency and to coordinate responses to financial panics
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1906· 2 entries
Wilson awoke to find himself blind in the left eye, the result of a blood clot and hypertension
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While vacationing in Bermuda, Wilson met Mary Hulbert Peck, a socialite
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1902· 1 entry
Career landmark: president of Princeton University (1902–1910).
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1897· 1 entry
And the first and only president to hold a Ph
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1896· 1 entry
Francis Landey Patton announced that College of New Jersey was being renamed Princeton University; an ambitious program of expansion for the university accompanied the name change
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1886· 1 entry
Studied at Johns Hopkins University, Doctor of Philosophy (1886).
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1883· 1 entry
Wilson met and fell in love with Ellen Louise Axson
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1879· 2 entries
Wilson attended the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was involved in the Virginia Glee Club and served as president of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
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Studied at Princeton University, Bachelor of Arts (1875–1879).
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1874· 1 entry
Studied at Davidson College (1873–1874).
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1873· 1 entry
Wilson became a communicant member of the Columbia First Presbyterian Church; he remained a member throughout his life
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1856· 1 entry
Born 1856-12-28.
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1848· 1 entry
And the only former subject of the Confederacy
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