Biography of Thomas Woodruff Wilson

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Born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virgina, Thomas Woodruff Wilson would grow up to become an accomplished man in the world of politics. Growing up in the south he witnessing the Civil War in action and it's aftermath, as a son of a Presbyterian family. Woodruff earn several degrees from being a hardworking scholar and passionate orator, all before persuing his university career. Caught in the fast rising politics, he was elected governor of New Jershey for two years and did not finish the last two, so he could become the 28th President of the United States of America for two-terms. During WWI he navigated through hardships as he crafted the Versailles Treaty and introduced a League of Nations, an idea of world peace to the United Nations. After suffering a second stroke in his last year of presidency he died three years laters after leaving office, sweeping reforms for middle class, womens voting rights, and dreams of world peace was all he left as a legacy.
Growing up, Wilson's family lived all over the south from Staunton, Virgina to Augusta, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina. While moving around in the south Wilson was caught in the harsh Civil War, and adopted the Confederate cause. During the ravages of war his mother, Jessie Janet Woodruff, helped nurse wounded soliders. In fact, he claim to witness Confederate president Jefferson Davis in chains, and looking up at Genreal Robet E. Lee's face of defeat in Augusta, Georgia and would never forget it.
What started his political career was his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Pressured by his father as a young child he was ushered towards maintaining studious habits. However, Tommy (was his childhood nickname) was not the most stellar student in school. Scholars now ...

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... second term ended, Wilson died on Feburary 14, 1924 of the age of 67. They had him buried in the Washington National Cathedral.
Thomas Woodruff Wilson was moved with a passionate feeling of having a mission and his father's ideal, to leave the world a better place than you found it. His legacies still lives on today of peace, statesmenship, social and finnial reform and the many schools and programs named after him, most famously the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and the old alama meter of his, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and Internation Affairs, but his straight down greatest dream will forever be his biggest legacy; The League of Nations, still going on today.

Works Cited

Woodrow Wilson. (2014). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved 08:16, Jan 05, 2014, from http://www.biography.com/people/woodrow-wilson-9534272.

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