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Woodrow Wilson

28th president of the United States
Also known as: Thomas Woodrow Wilson
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John Milton Cooper
Professor of History, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Author of The Warrior and the Priest and others.
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Woodrow Wilson (born December 28, 1856, Staunton, Virginia, U.S.—died February 3, 1924, Washington, D.C.) was the 28th president of the United States (1913–21), an American scholar and statesman known for ambitious and lasting legislative achievements. Despite being a war-time president, Wilson championed the creation of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace. Long recognized as a progressive, Wilson’s reputation has been tarnished by his positions on segregation...

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