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==College Professor==

==College Professor==

In 1885 Wilson was appointed instructor in in history at Bryn Mawr College, an elite Quaker school near Philadelphia, as a salary of $1500 a year (which was enough to hire a servant).  In 1888 he moved to Wesleyan University in Connecticut.  His reputation as an outstanding leader in political science brought him a professorship of jurisprudence and political economy at [[Princeton University]] in 1890. For the next twelve years he taught at Princeton, popular alike with students and faculty. By 1902, when he was elected president of the university, he was the author of numerous influential books and essays, including a five-volume history of the United States and a life of George  

In 1885 Wilson was appointed instructor in in history at Bryn Mawr College, an elite Quaker school near Philadelphia, as a salary of $1500 a year (which was enough to hire a servant).  In 1888 he moved to Wesleyan University in Connecticut.  His reputation as an outstanding leader in political science brought him a professorship of jurisprudence and political economy at [[Princeton University]] in 1890. For the next twelve years he taught at Princeton, popular alike with students and faculty. By 1902, when he was elected president of the university, he was the author of numerous influential books and essays, including a five-volume history of the United States and a life of George  

Washington.

Washington. By 1910 when internal politics at princeton forced him to move into state politics, he was nationally known as a leader of the [[Progressive Movement]].

 

Historians and scholars, including former President Woodrow Wilson (when he was a Princeton University professor), have said that [[Shays Rebellion]] was one of the key forces behind the shaping of the U.S. Constitution as a document of protection for corporate interests. The Shays resistance alerted the Founders to the dangers of a populist [[democracy]] to their business interests. [http://www.shays2.org/background.html]

==Election of 1912==

==Election of 1912==