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Woodrow
Wilson - 28th President
Party: Democrat
Term: March 4, 1913 - March 3, 1921
Age at Inauguration: 56
Life Span: Dec 28, 1856 - Feb 3, 1924 [67]
Spouse: Ellen Axson - Age at Marriage:
28
Spouse: Edith Galt - Age of Marriage:
58
Vice President: Thomas Marshall |
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- After forming the Bull Moose Party,
former President Teddy Roosevelt joined the election contest
of 1912 creating a split in the republican party between himself
and incumbent Howard Taft; thus electing Wilson
- He remains the only president to have
earned a doctoral degree
- Wilson is one of two presidents [Teddy
Roosevelt] to receive the Nobel Prize for Peace
- As president he suffered the loss
of his his wife Ellen Death of the First
Lady
- After suffering a stroke in 1919,
his second wife Edith communicated his decisions regarding military
action in World War I to Congress
- Woodrow Wilson held the first regularly
scheduled press conference from the White House on March 15,
1913
- The only President buried in Washington,
DC, he was interred in the National Cathedral - The Protestant
Espiscipal Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul, in 1924
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