WOODROW WILSON     Twenty-eighth president served 1913-1921   Democrat from Virginia   Born 1856   Former president of Princeton University   Governor of New Jersey   Pacifistic idealist, reluctant to enter World War I   Ran for president on New Freedom program focused on individualism and states’ rights   Re-elected as kept out of war   Eventually sent troops to help Allies defeat Germany and Austria-Hungary in 1917   Proposed 14 Points for peace in Europe including League of Nations   Passed child labor laws   His vice-president was Thomas R. Marshall     Died 1924

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