Thomas Woodrow Wilson Biography Report

Hello everybody! I’m Thomas Woodrow Wilson! I’m here to tell you all about myself and my life. So first off, I’ll start at the beginning. I was born on December 28th in 1856. I have two older sisters and one younger brother. I was born at home, in Staunton, Virginia. My parents’ names were Joseph Ruggles Woodrow, and Jessie Janet Wilson. When I was less than a year old, my family and I moved to Atlanta, Georgia. My father was a Presbyterian minister, and I was also a Presbyterian. My childhood was full of war, as when I was a young child the Civil War ended. I witnessed General Robert E. Lee being marched through my town after his surrender at Appomattox Court House. Even as a child, I had weak eyesight, and later doctors thought that I had
Then I taught history at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. While I was teaching there, I published my first of nine books, the rest of which were published during my teaching at Princeton University. At Princeton, I taught law and political economy. In 1902, I was delighted to be asked to be the President of Princeton University. I was President of Princeton for 8 years. In 1910 I was approached by the New Jersey Democratic Party about running for Governor of New Jersey. I was picked by the party bosses because they thought that I would be easy to control behind the scenes. But I surprised them all when I declared independence from the party bosses. I easily overcame my Republican opponent, and for the next two years, I was the Governor of the American state of New Jersey. The Democratic Party nominated me for President in 1912. After 46 ballots I defeated the Speaker of the House, Champs Clark. When the Republican vote was split between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt, I easily won the election. I was now President of the United States of America. I was President of the United States for 8 years and my Vice President was Thomas Riley Marshall. In 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria is assassinated, throwing Europe into World War One. I made a choice and declared the United States’ neutrality. Later that year, my wife Ellen Louise Axson Wilson dies. In 1915, a German U-boat sinks the passenger ship Lusitania with 1,198 people aboard, 128 of them Americans. I then tell the Germans that we will let it slide, as long as it doesn’t happen again. Then, on December 18, I marry my second wife, Edith Bolling Galt. Next Year in 1916, I send American troops after a group of Mexican criminals because they have invaded part of the USA. Soon after, I am re elected as President. Another important event happens during 1916. The first woman is