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.

Woodrow Wilson - whose mother Janet 'Jessie' Woodrow was born and lived on Warwick Road for the first few years of her life - was sworn in as the States' 28th president in 1913. In 1918 ...

Woodrow Wilson - whose mother Janet 'Jessie' Woodrow ... but always held his mother's birthplace close to his heart. In 1918, before meeting with world leaders in Paris for the World War One ...