Woodrow Wilson

    Woodrow Wilson

    December 27, 1856 (168 years old) in Staunton, Virginia, USA

    Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States of America (1913โ€“21). A scholar and statesman, best remembered for his legislative accomplishments and his high-minded idealism, who led his country into World War I and became the creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace.

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