The 43 Presidents
of the
United States of America

Woodrow Wilson

28th President
1913 - 1921

Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth president of the United States. 

Important events during President Wilson's administration were:

• The first presidential press conference was held on March 31, 1913.

• The Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on May 31, 1913.

• The Federal Reserve Act was passed on December 23, 1913.

• The Federal Trade Commission was established on September 26, 1914.

• The British ship, Lusitania, was sunk by a German submarine on May 7, 1915.

• Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first woman to be elected to Congress in November 1916.

• The United States declared war against Germany on April 6, 1917.

• An advance unit of the American Expeditionary Force landed at Liverpool. England on June 8, 1917.

• The United States declared war against Austria-Hungary on December 7, 1917.

• President Wilson outlines his "Fourteen Points" to Congress on January 8, 1918.  They were his plans to bring peace and end World War I.

• World War I ends on November 11, 1918 with the armistice signed at 11:00 a.m.

• The Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on January 29, 1919.

• The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution was ratified on August 26, 1920.

Woodrow Wilson was:

• the eighth President born in Virginia.

• the second Democratic President since the Civil War.

• the first President to major in government and history in college.

• the first President who had been president of a major university.

• the fourth President to be inaugurated on March 5th.

• the eleventh President who was a resident of a state where he was not born.

• the third President whose wife died when he was in office.

• the fifth President to remarry.

• the sixth President to marry a widow.

• the third President who was married when he was President.

• the only President who had two daughters who were married in the White House.

• the first President to cross the Atlantic as President and visit a foreign country, which he did when he was trying to bring peace to the world.