Woodrow Willson
These United states have gone through president after president, each one with their failures and successes. There have been so many presidents over the years that I have almost lost count. However, there are ones worth mentioning, like Woodrow Willson.
Woodrow Wilson was president during a time of a lot of war in other countries, however the United States stayed mostly unaffected. Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born in 1856, in a town in Virginia. His father was a protestant preacher who served in the army. Wilson, though he was to become the president, was rather dull as a young child. This was not his fault, because it was hard to get a good education when his family was not exactly rich. He learned to read at the age of ten, but he worked harder to make up for the time he had lost. He attended Davidson College, but later graduated in Princeton, in 1879.
Wilson later went to law school, and when he graduated, he went to teach in other small colleges. He later became the president of Princeton, the school that he himself attended. He was president there for eight years, until a few years later, when he married Ellen Axson. They had three daughters, before Wilson’s wife died in 1914.
By this time, Wilson was elected to be the Governor of New Jersey. After this, he became a candidate for president of the United States. He would have surely lost if the Republicans were not split between Taft and Roosevelt. However, after Wilson had become president, he made more advancements than either Taft or Roosevelt had. Wilson added Commerce and Labor to the Cabinet. As the twenty-eighth president of the United States, Woodrow Wilson was one of the most influential presidents in the government, and without him, the government today might not be as trustable, even though it is not right now, it could have been a lot worse.
Simeon E. 