Woodrow Wilson Muhamed Beganovic Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born on December 28th, 1856. He was born to Jessie Janet Woodrow and Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Wilson spent some of his childhood observing the Civil War, and its aftermath. He was the third of the four children. When Wilson was just one, his family moved from Virginia to Georgia. When Wilson was 14, they moved to South Carolina, and his father taught at the Columbia Theological Seminary. While Wilson was seeing the war up close, his father
28th president (1913-1921) • Born on December 28th, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia o Born five years before the outbreak of the American Civil War o Known as “Young Tommy” as a child (Thomas Woodrow Wilson, later dropped the Thomas) • Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson, Mother: Jessie Janet Woodrow Wilson o His family was very religious. His father was a Presbyterian minister and then later became a seminary professor. His mother was of Scottish descent. o Because of his father’s duties, Wilson’s family
Thomas Woodrow Wilson Thomas Woodrow Wilson, twenty-eighth president of the United States, might have suffered from dyslexia. He never could read easily, but developed a strong power of concentration and a near-photographic memory. The outbreak of World War I coincided with the death of Wilson's first wife Ellen Axson, who he was passionately devoted to. Seven months after her death his friends introduced him to Edith Bolling Galt, a descendant of the Indian princess Pocahontas, they were married