Biography of President Woodrow Wilson

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Who was Woodrow Wilson? People know him as one of our many presidents. Many people don’t know much about him. President Woodrow Wilson did quite a few important things before becoming the 28th president of the United States of America. He was liked by many hated by others.

In 1910 Thomas Woodrow Wilson ran for the governor of New Jersey. He won in a landslide. Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party and received many support that way ("Woodrow Wilson "). He became the forty-third governor. Wilson forced through the New Jersey legislature such reforms as an employer's liability act, the direct primary, a corrupt-practices act, and revitalization of the state public utilities commission ("Woodrow Wilson ").

Later on he was nominated for president at the 1912 Democratic Convention ("Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom"). One of the platforms on which he ran was the “New Freedom” program. This was a program that focused on the revitalization of the American Economy. Wilson hoped to regulate big business. Wilson was also a big believer in Thomas Jefferson and the idea that a Utopia co...

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