Woodrow Wilson hoped not to spend too much presidential time on foreign affairs. When Europe plunged into war in 1914, Wilson, who like many Americans believed in neutrality, saw America's role as ...
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.