Woodrow Wilson

A prominent U.S. president, Woodrow Wilson (who served from 1913 to 1921) was born on December 28, 1856, in Staunton, Virginia. Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party and served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the presidential election in 1912. He was also responsible for ushering the United States into World War I in 1917, and established an activist foreign policy called Wilsonianism. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations and won the Nobel Peace Prize as a result.