Wilson, Woodrow

28th President of the United States, (Democrat) 1913 to 1921, President of Princeton University 1902-1910, Governor of New Jersey 1911-1913.  Born: December 28, 1856; Staunton, Virginia.  Death: February 3, 1924; Washington D.C.  Wilson led the United States through the First World War.  He was a major leader at the Paris [Versailles] Peace Conference in 1919, where he championed the proposed globalist League of Nations, the forerunner of the United Nations.  However, he was unable to obtain Senate approval for U.S. membership.  He suffered debilitating strokes in September 1919.  During the final year and a half of his presidency his wife and staff handled most of his presidential duties.  Wilson oversaw the passage of progressive legislative policies unparalleled until the New Deal in 1933.  The Federal Reserve Act, Federal Trade Commission Act, the Clayton Antitrust Act, and the Federal Farm Loan Act were some of these new policies.  Having taken office one month after ratification of the Sixteenth Amendment, Wilson called a special session of Congress, whose work culminated in the Revenue Act of 1913, introducing an income tax and lowering tariffs.  Wilson asked Congress for what became the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918, suppressing anti-draft activists by making it a criminal act to criticize the federal government.  Was President when the Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in 1913.