President Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson was the 28^th president of the United States, he was president from 1913 to 1921. Wilson was born in Virginia in 1856. He graduated from Princeton and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University. Wilson was nominated for President in 1912 and received only 42 percent of the popular vote in the three-way election but an overwhelming electoral vote. He won the re-election in 1916 because of the new laws one that prohibited child labor and another that limited railroad workers to an eight-hour day, also the slogan "he kept us out of war.” But later on in April 1917 after a series of events he asked congress to declare war on Germany. When the war was over the wanted to establish the Fourteen Points and a League of Nations at the conference for the Treaty of Versailles but at the end United States didn’t take part of the League of Nations and the Senate rejected to sign the Treaty of Versailles.