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Woodrov Wilson

COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM
Register of Papers
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Processed: MA
Date: 5/24/56

WQQDRQW WILSON
(1856 —

1924)

The papers of Woodrov Wilson, college professor, Governor
of New Jersey, tventy-eighth President of the United States vhose
administration was distinguished in its first year by the passing
of the Federal Reserve Act, are chiefly located in the Library of
Congress. Smaller groups of Wilson material may be found in the
National Archives, the Boston Public Library, the university libraries
of Princeton, Yale, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke and Michigan.
The papers at the Library of Congress have been sorted and
catalogued. Permission for tneir use must be sought from Mrs.
Woodrov Wilson. This Committee has that permission.
From these collections papers have been published in three
sets - The Public Papers of Woodrov Wilson (6 vols. 1925-27 edited
by Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd); The Intimate Papers of
Col. House (1926-28, 4- vols, edited by Charles Seymour); Woodrov
Wilson, Life snd Letters (8 vols, 1927-39, by Ray Stannard Baker),
but much correspondence remains unpublished.




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Biographical Note

1856, Dec. 28

Born, Staunton, Ya.

1879

A.B., Princeton Univ.

1881

Graduate in law, Univ. of Virginia

1882

A.M., Princeton Univ.

1386

Ph.D., Johns Hopkins

1885, June 241915, Dec. 18

Married Ellen Louise Axson (d. 1914)
Married Edith Boiling Gait

1885-88

Associate professor of history and political
economy, Bryn Mawr

1888-90

Professor of history and political economy,
Wesleyan U.

1890-1910

Professor of jurisprudence and political economy,
Princeton

1902-10
1911-13

President, Princeton University
Governor of New Jersey

1913-21

President of the United States; defeated Theodore
Roosevelt and "Win. H. Taft for first term, Charles
E. Hughes for second term

1918
1919

Head of American Commission to Negotiate Peace
Signed Peace Treaty in Paris

1924, Feb. 3
Author of:

Died
Congressional Government, ja Study in American Politics
The State—Elements of Historical and Practical
Politics. 1889.
Division and Reunion, 1829-1889. 1893.
An Old Master and Other Political Essays. 1893.
George Washington. 1896.
A Hi story of the American People. 1902.
Constitutional Government in the United States. 1908.
The State—Elements of Historical and Practical
Politics, nev edit., 1911.
Free Life. 19&3.
The New Freedom. 1913.
When A Man Comes to Himself. 1915.
On Being Human. 1916.

See: Who Was Who in America, 1897-1942, vol. I, Marnuis.