Woodrow Wilson

Dr. Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924) was the 28th President of the United States (1913–1921). Initially an academician, he served as President of Princeton University and was the 45th state Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913). He was the second Democrat to serve two consecutive terms in the White House, the first having been Andrew Jackson, and his terms in office spanned his country's involvement in World War I.

Memorials

Many memorials to Wilson exist:

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• The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, established by Congress in 1968 as a "living memorial" to President Wilson, is a leading policy forum in Washington, D.C. and part of the Smithsonian Institution.
• Wilson House, an undergraduate dormitory at Johns Hopkins University, is named in his honor.
• The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University is a leading source for global and public leaders.
• Wilson Hall, an administrative building at James Madison University, is named in his honor.
• His portrait appeared on the U.S. $100,000 bill, issued in 1934. This bill was used only for transactions between the Federal Reserve and Treasury.
• The city of Bratislava (now capital of Slovakia, Europe) was named "Wilsonovo mesto" (Wilson City) after U.S. President Wilson for a short period of time after World War I. This was to commemorate President Wilson's support for creating the independent state of Czechoslovakia. For the same reason, the central railway station in Prague bears the name "Wilsonovo nádra?í" (Wilson station).
• The Avenue du President Wilson in Paris, France, is named in honor of Wilson.
• Wilson has been the subject of books by two particularly noteworthy authors. Herbert Hoover's The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson is extremely sympathetic, and remains the only book written by one ex-President about another one. Sigmund Freud and William Bullitt's Thomas Woodrow Wilson: A Psychological Study is devastatingly unsympathetic, and was unpublished for 30 years after Freud's death.
• Woodrow Wilson Bridge across the Potomac River on the portion of the Capital Beltway which is also Interstate 95 is located in three jurisdictions, Virginia, Maryland, and the District of Columbia; more than any other Interstate Highway bridge. Wilson was an early automobile enthusiast and, while president, he took daily rides to calm himself, a hallmark behavior of modern adults with Attention Deficit Disorder. It is one of the most heavily-traveled bridges in the world.

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• Wilson was a supporter of the Ku Klux Klan, and arguably the organization couldn't have been reborn during World War I without him.-->