Woodrow Wilson
28th President of the United States
(March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921)
Nickname: "Schoolmaster in Politics"
Born: December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia
Died: February 3, 1924, in Washington, D.C.
Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson
Mother: Jessie Janet Woodrow Wilson
Married: Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914), on June 24, 1885; Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961), on December 18 , 1915
Children: Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886-1944); Jessie Woodrow Wilson (1887-1933); Eleanor Randolph Wilson (1889-1967)
Religion: Presbyterian
Education: Graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) (1879)
Occupation: Teacher, public official
Political Party: Democrat
Other Government Positions:
- Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13
Presidential Salary: $75,000/year
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (1913-21)
Cabinet:
- Secretary of State
- William J. Bryan (1913-15)
- Robert Lansing (1915-20)
- Bainbridge Colby (1920-21)
- Secretary of the Treasury
- William G. McAdoo (1913-18)
- Carter Glass (1918-20)
- David F. Houston (1920-21)
- Secretary of War
- Lindley M. Garrison (1913-16)
- Newton D. Baker (1916-21)
- Attorney General
- James C. McReynolds (1913-14)
- Thomas W. Gregory (1914-19)
- Alexander M. Palmer (1919-21)
- Postmaster General
- Albert S. Burleson (1913-21)
- Secretary of the Navy
- Josephus Daniels (1913-21)
- Secretary of the Interior
- Franklin K. Lane (1913-20)
- John B. Payne (1920-21)
- Secretary of Agriculture
- David F. Houston (1913-20)
- Edwin T. Meredith (1920-21)
- Secretary of Commerce
- William C. Redfield (1913-19)
- Joshua W. Alexander (1919-21)
- Secretary of Labor
- William B. Wilson (1913-21)
- 1914-1918
- World War I