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'''Woodrow Wilson''' (born Thomas Woodrow Wilson; <ref>http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1919/wilson-bio.html</ref>) (1856 - 1924) was elected as a Democrat as the 28th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1913 to 1921.  In 1917 he led the United States' entrance in to [[World War I]]; he played a dominant role at the versailles Conference that set the peace terms in 1919.  

'''Woodrow Wilson''' (born Thomas Woodrow Wilson; (1856 - 1924) was elected as a Democrat as the 28th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1913 to 1921.  An intellectual leader of the Progressive Movement, Wilson demonstrated his mastery over Congress by creating the Federal Reserve System, lowering the tariff, and revising the antitrust laws.  Trying repeatedly and failing to broker peace during [[World War I]], Wilson in 1917 led the United States' into the war. Wilson played a dominant role at the Versailles Conference that set the peace terms in 1919, but he failed to obtain Senate approval for the Versailles treaty because it required American entry into the [[League of Nations]].

==Family==

==Family==

Woodrow Wilson was the son of Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a Presbyterian minister of Scotch Irish descent; his mother Jedsse was born in Carlisle, England, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister.  YToung Wilson grew up in the South during the Civil War and reconstruction.  Because of this he knew a great deal about the humiliation, economic ruin and shame that the loser of a war experiences and the hatred that grows from this. This insight helped him make a forgiving plan for peace called the [[Fourteen Points]] to end World War I.  It was never adopted the way he had hoped.  Wilson was educated at Princeton and Johns Hopkins University; he was the only president to earn a PhD.

Woodrow Wilson was the son of Joseph Ruggles Wilson, born in Ohio, his mother Jedsse was born in Carlisle, England, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister.  His father, a Presbyterian minister of Scotch Irish descent, was a leader of the Southern Presbyterian Church and an avid supporter of the Confederacy. Woodrow's grandfather and uncles in Ohio were antislavery Republicans, but he had no contact with them. Woodrow grew up in the South during the Civil War and reconstruction.  Because of this he knew a great deal about the humiliation, economic ruin and shame that the loser of a war experiences and the hatred that grows from this. This insight helped him make a forgiving plan for peace called the [[Fourteen Points]] to end World War I.  It was never adopted the way he had hoped.  Wilson was educated at Princeton and Johns Hopkins University; he was the only president to earn a PhD.

==Wilson and religion==

==Wilson and religion==

"Wilson, a liberal's liberal, was a Presbyterian elder who read the [[Bible]] daily; he felt 'sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day.' The Bible, he argued, was 'the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life.' Wilson was prone to make explicitly Christian claims about his nation, even excluding the word ''Judeo'' from his characterization of the nation's religious heritage. 'America was born a [[Christian]] nation,' claimed the great liberal in 1913. 'America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.' "<ref>God and George W. Bush (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 175</ref>

"Wilson, a liberal's liberal, was a Presbyterian elder who read the [[Bible]] daily; he felt 'sorry for the men who do not read the Bible every day.' The Bible, he argued, was 'the one supreme source of revelation of the meaning of life.' Wilson was prone to make explicitly Christian claims about his nation, even excluding the word ''Judeo'' from his characterization of the nation's religious heritage. 'America was born a [[Christian]] nation,' claimed the great liberal in 1913. 'America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.' "<ref>God and George W. Bush (New York: Regan Books, 2004), p. 175</ref>

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==Further Reading ==

==Bibliography==

* ''Woodrow Wilson and the roots of modern liberalism'' / Ronald J. Pestritto. ISBN: 0742515176

* Link,Arthur S. ''Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-1917'' (1954), remains the standard history of his first term.

* Pestritto, Ronald J. ed.  ''Woodrow Wilson and the roots of modern liberalism'' (2005) ISBN: 0742515176' argues Wilson subverted the ideas of the Founders by his progressivism

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