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Article: Wilson, Woodrow
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Woodrow Wilson
Arthur S. Link
THOMAS WOODROW WILSON, twenty-eighth president of the United States, is the only chief executive who has given scholarly attention to the presidency before undertaking the duties of that office. Wilson was born
in Staunton, Virginia, on 28 December 1856, the son of Janet Woodrow Wilson and the Rev. Dr. Joseph Ruggles Wilson, a founder of the southern Presbyterian Church. He was graduated from Princeton University (1879), studied law at the University of Virginia (1879
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1880), practiced law in Atlanta (1882
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1883), and thereafter did graduate work in political science, history, and economics at The Johns Hopkins University, where he ...