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Born
In Staunton, Virginia to the Reverend Joseph Ruggles Wilson and his wife Janet (Jessie) Woodrow Wilson. -
Graduated from Princeton
He returned in 1902 to serve as the university's president. -
Married first Wife
Ellen Louise Axson, they had three daughters, Margaret, Jessie, and Eleanor. -
Governor of New Jersey
In the campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and of the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. -
Inauguration
Elected as the 28th President of the United States. He was 56 when we was elected, making him the oldest president at that time. -
Federal Reserve Act
The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. -
Remarried
Edith Bowling Galt. They were married for nine years. -
America Joins "The Great War"
In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress to declare war, only the second declaration of war in U.S. history. -
Wilson's Fourteen Points
Ideas were used for the Treaty of Versailles. This was Wilson's attempt to establish the League of Nations. "A general association of nations...affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike." -
Treaty of Versailles
Failed in the Senate. -
World War I Ends
Paris Peace Conference influences the Treaty of Versailles. -
Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
For efforts on League of Nations -
Died
Suffered from health problems such as strokes.
