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Wilson, (Thomas) Woodrow 1856-1924. 28th
president of the USA 1913-21, a Democrat. He
kept the USA out of World War I until 1917,
and in Jan 1918 issued his `Fourteen Points'
as a basis for a just peace settlement. At
the peace conference in Paris he secured the
inclusion of the League of Nations in
individual peace treaties, but these were not
ratified by Congress, so the USA did not join
the League. Nobel Prize for Peace in 1919.
Wilson, born in Virginia, became president of
Princeton University in 1902. In 1910 he
became governor of New Jersey. Elected
president in 1912 against Theodore Roosevelt
and Taft, he initiated anti-trust legislation
and secured valuable social reforms in his
progressive `New Freedom' programme. He
strove to keep the USA neutral during World
War I but the German U-boat campaign forced
him to declare war in 1917. In 1919 he
suffered a stroke from which he never fully
recovered.