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President Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States

Woodrow Wilson 

1913 - 1921

Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (1913-21)
Born: December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia
Died: February 3, 1924, in Washington, D.C.
Career/Occupation: General
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1879)
Political Party: Democratic
Nickname(s): "Schoolmaster in Politics"


Other Government Positions:
Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13


Presidential Salary: $75,000

Presidential Firsts:

The first president to declare a national emergency.

The first president to have a Ph.D.

The first president to visit Europe while in office.

In 1918–19 he visited: France, the United Kingdom, Italy (along with the Holy See, not yet a sovereign nation), and Belgium.

The first president to meet with the pope while in office, Pope Benedict XV in 1919.

The first president to meet with a reigning British monarch while in office, George V in 1918.

The first president to hold a press conference or regular news briefings.

The first president to appoint a Jew (Louis Brandeis) to the Supreme Court.

The first president to attend a World Series game.

Wilson attended Game 2 of the 1915 World Series in Philadelphia between the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies.

The first president to be buried in Washington D.C.

Wilson died in 1924, and was interred in a sarcophagus in Washington National Cathedral.

The first president to have separate secretaries of commerce and labor.

The first president to serve as president of Princeton University.

The first president to be absent from the country for more than one month while in office.