Thomas Woodrow WIlson was a U.S. president. He was born December,28,in the city of Staunton Virginia he was born into a Scottish/Irish American family. Woodrow tells us that his earliest memory is when he was three he remembers hearing that Abraham Lincoln had been elected, and that war was coming at the age of three. Woodrow Wilson was the twenty eighth president of the United States, right after president Taft. Woodrow Wilson served from 1913-1921. He was elected to the side of the Democratic Party. Before Wilson became president he was the president of Princeton university , and the governor of New Jersey from 1911-1913, and then won as president against Theodore Roosevelt in the …show more content…
During his presidency he saw the United States go thru WWI , and he negotiating the treaty of Versailles was one of the most important if not the most important of treaties because it ended WWI. Wilson also created the League of Nations, this was something that was an intergovernmental organization that helped keep peace between countries. Wilson entered the White House just as women’s right movements where heating up. His views on this eventually became supporting on the women’s voting rights. In 1917 a group of suffragist came to the White House demanding Wilson’s support. This group began with a soft approach but soon became violent ,and threatening, where people were arrested and thrown in jail. Wilson was disappointed and very mad at first, but soon became surprised that they would go to such crazy extremities such as going on hunger strikes while being force fed by police. In 1918 Wilson gave a speech that endorsed the ideas of women’s rights to vote. Woodrow joined his daughter in the supporting the rights of women. Finally in 1920 the nineteenth amendment was ratified. In 1913 he signed an act that reduced tax rates that helped middle class such as , farmers and small businesses