A Chronological Sketch of President Woodrow Wilson ’79 ’s Life Thus Far

1856 – Born at Staunton, VA., December 28th, son of the Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Wilson and Janet Woodrow.

1858 – Moved with his parents to Augusta, GA.

1870 – Moved with his parents to Columbia, S. C.

1873 – Attended Davidson College.

1874 – Studied at home, Wilmington, N. C.

1875 – Entered Princeton.

1877-1879 – Editor and Managing Editor of The Princetonian; contributor to Nassau Literary Magazine and prominent in debating.

1879 – Graduated from Princeton, A.B., ranking forty-first in class of 122.

1879 – Essay on “Cabinet Government in the United States” published in International Review for August.

1880-1882 – Studied law at University of Virginia. Won Writer’s Prize and Orator’s Prize.

1882 – Received the degree of LL.B. from University of Virginia.

1882 – Received the A.M. degree from Princeton.

1882-1883 – Practiced law at Atlanta, GA.

1883-1885 – Studied at Johns Hopkins University.

1885 – Published “Congressional Government.”

1885 – Married Miss Ellen Louise Axson of Savannah, GA., June 24th.

1885-1888 – Associate Professor of History and Political Economy at Bryn Mawr.

1886 – Received the degree of Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

1887 – LL.D. from Wake Forest University.

1888-1890 – Professor of History and Political Economy at Wesleyan University; also Lecturer at Johns Hopkins.

1889 – Published “The State.”

1890-1895 – Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at Princeton.

1893 – Published “Division and Reunion,” “an Old Master and Other Political Essays” and “Mere Literature and Other Essays.”

1895-1897 – Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton.

1896 – Published “George Washington.”

1897-1910 – Professor of Jurisprudence and Politics at Princeton.

1898 – LL.D. from Tulane University.

1901 – Litt.D. from Yale.

1902-1910 – President of Princeton.

1902 – LL.D. from Johns Hopkins and from Rutgers.

1902 – Published “History of the American People.”

1903 – LL.D. from University of Pennsylvania and from Brown.

1907 – LL.D. from Harvard.

1908 – LL.D. from Williams.

1909 – LL.D. from Dartmouth.

1911-1913 – Governor of New Jersey.

1912 – Elected President of the United States.

1913 – Inaugurated President of the United States.

This was originally published in the March 5, 1913 issue of PAW.