The 28th President of The United States, Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson: As previously Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson declared himself as the personal representative of the people. "No one other than the President", he said, "seem to expect ... who cares for the general interests of the country". He developed a program of progressive reform and contacted international leaders in the formation of a new order in the world. In 1917, he proclaimed the US entry into World War 1 a crusade to make the world "safe for democracy." Wilson had seen the horror of war. Born in Virginia in 1856, the son of a presbiterano minister who during the Civil War was a pastor in Augusta, Georgia, and during Reconstruction, a professor in the charred city of Columbia, South Carolina. After graduation from Princeton (then the College of New Jersey) and the University of Virginia Law School, Wilson earned his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University and was readmitted in an academic career. In 1885 he married Ellen Louise Axson. Wilson quickly prospered as a conservative young professor of political science and became president of Princeton in 1902.

His growing national reputation led some conservative Democrats to consider him as the presidential candidiato. First they persuaded him to be run for the office of Governor of New Jersey in 1910. In the campaign he asserted his independence of the conservatives and the machine that had nominated him, endorsing a progressive platform, which he pursued as governor. He was nominated for president at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campaigned on a program called "new freedom" which caused that affected individualism and states' rights. In the three-way election he received only 42 percent of the popular vote but an outstanding electoral vote. Wilson maneuvered through Congress three pieces of important legislation. The first was a lower, the rate Underwood Act; attached to a federal tax measure was passed. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the nation with a more elastic money supply if needed urgently. In 1914, legislation established a Federal unreliable Trade Commission to prohibit unfair business practices. Another burst of legislation followed in 1916. A new law banned children work; merely another railroad workers to an eight hours a day. Under this legislation and the slogan "he kept us out of war", the election was won by Wilson. But after the election Wilson concluded that America could not remain neutral in the war. April 2.1917, asked the Congress a declaration of war on Germany.

The massive American effort slowly helped the balance in favor of the Allies. Wilson appeared before Congress in January 1918, to announce white Americans - The Fourteen Points, the last of which would establish "a general association of nations ... that produce mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity the large and small states alike. "After the Germans signed the Armistice in November 1918, Wilson went to Paris to try a lasting peace. The presented later to the Senate the Versailles Treaty, which contained the Covenant of the League of Nations, and asked, "we dare to reject it and break the heart of the world?" But the election of 1918 had shifted the balance in the Congress Republicans. By seven votes the Versailles Treaty failed in the Senate. The president, against alerts doctors, had made a national tour to mobilize public sentiment towards the treaty. Exhausted, he suffered a stroke and nearly died. Carefully dressed by his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, he lived until 1924.