Gary Ginsberg is the author of “First Friends: The Powerful, Unsung (and Unelected) People Who Shaped Our Presidents.” ...

Woodrow Wilson, then governor of New Jersey, was the Democratic Party's candidate for the presidential election of 1912. The country faced problems that the founding fathers had never imagined.

Woodrow Wilson was in law and academia before politics. After earning a Ph.D., he joined the Princeton faculty and became university president in 1902. By 1910, he was New Jersey’s governor.

Of the large field of nominees, Bryan ultimately gave his blessing to Woodrow Wilson, the progressive governor of New Jersey. Wilson was elected president and returned the favor by naming him ...

Woodrow Wilson’s reputation has taken a beating ... to America’s system of checks and balances. In 1911, as the governor of ...

Woodrow Wilson, the liberal imperialist with whom ... Probably Wilson. As governor of New Jersey he was a fanatical proponent of the confinement and sterilization of “imbeciles,” a eugenic ...

“The process by which a nation was created and unified came at last to an end, and a still more fateful process began which was to determine its place and example in the general history of the ...