Woke up one morning with loss of vision in one eye because of high blood pressure in 1906.
After suffering a collapse, dies at his S Street home on Fabruary 3, 1924. He is buried at Washington�s National Cathedral.
Family:
Third son of Jessie Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson�s four children.
Father was a Presbyterian minister.
Meets Ellen Axson in 1883 and becomes engaged to her later that year. they get married in 1885 in Savana, Georgia.
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have their first child, a daughter named Margaret in 1886.
The Wilsons� second daughter, Jessie, is born in 1887.
Wilson�s mother, Jessie Janet Woodrow, dies in 1888.
The Wilsons� youngest child, Eleanor, is born in 1889.
Wilson�s father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson, dies in 1903.
Wilson�s wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, dies of a kidney disorder known as Bright's Disease on August 6, 1914.
Marries Edith Bolling Galt on December 18, 1915.
Education:
Enrolled in Princeton University in 1875 and graduates in 1879
Graduates from law school at University of Virginia in 1881
Wilson receives his Ph.D. in politics and history from Johns Hopkins University and his doctoral disseration, on the practical workings of the U.S. Congress in 1885
Career Moves:
Opens a law practice with Edward Renick in Atlanta in 1882. discontinues their partnership the following year. determined to follow his ambitions in politics and government.
Accepts a teaching position at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania in 1885.
Wilson begins teaching at Wesleyan University in Connecticut in 1888.
Wilson is appointed full professor at Princeton University in 1890.
Wilson becomes president of Princeton University in 1902.
As president of Princeton, proposes the �quad� reform, which would eliminate undergraduates� elite social clubs.
Accepts the nomination of the Democratic Party and is elected governor of New Jersey.
As governor, enacts many progressive reforms during his tenure in 1910, which will last until 1912.
In the Presidential Election of 1912, runs as the Democratic candidate and defeats William Howard Taft (Republican), Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), and Eugene Debs (Socialist). His running mate is Thomas Marshall.
Under the Wilson administration, several major reform laws are passed, including the Underwood-Simmons Tariff Act, the Federal Reserve Act, and legislation establishing income taxes in 1913. It also begins government-wide segregation of workplaces, restrooms and lunchrooms.
The Wilson administration continues to pass major reforms, including the establishment of the Federal Trade Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act in 1914.
Orders American troops to pursue Mexican guerrillas who raid U.S. territory.
Re-elected president over Republican candidate Charles Evans Hughes in 1916.
Seeks �Peace Without Victory�, but after Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare in the Atlantic, signs a proclamation of war against Germany in 1917. Also appoints The Inquiry to develop ideas for a future of world peace based on democracy in 1917.
Puts forth his vision for a new world order, including the establishment of an organization to settle future conflicts between nations in his Fourteen Points Speech on January 8, 1918.
Receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 1920.
Rides with President-elect Warren G. Harding to the Capitol and signs the last acts of the 66th Congress before departing for his new home on S Street in Washington, D.C.
