Woodrow Wilson.

A lifelong baseball fan, Wilson was the first sitting president to attend a World Series game.

Wilson’s children: Margaret Wilson April 16, 1886 – February 12, 1944; Jessie Woodrow Wilson August 28, 1887 – January 15, 1933; Eleanor Randolph Wilson October 5, 1889 – April 5, 1967. Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre Sr. on November 25, 1913 at the White House; they had two children. Eleanor married William Gibbs McAdoo Jr. on May 7, 1914 at the White House; they had two daughters.

He was elected governor of New Jersey without having held public office, serving from January 17, 1911 to March 1, 1913.

Wilson is interred at the Washington National Cathedral.

He met his second wife, Edith Bolling Galt, by chance at the White House; they married nine months later. After Wilson suffered a paralyzing stroke on October 2, 1919, she imposed a stewardship of the presidency, serving as the only conduit to her husband until he recovered moderately.

Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr from 1885 to 1888 and Wesleyan from 1888 to 1890.

He was unanimously elected president of Princeton University in 1902.

According to PBS’s American Experience documentary Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century 2002, when Wilson allowed his cabinet to segregate government offices, black journalist William Monroe Trotter led a delegation to meet him. After a shouting match, Wilson refused to promote civil rights for the rest of his life.

Ellen Louise Axson Wilson was the first First Lady from Georgia; she painted as a hobby and sold her work for charity.

Wilson is the only US president to have held a PhD.

His first name is Thomas, but he chose Woodrow as his professional name because he thought it sounded more authoritative.

When he ran for re-election in 1916, he used the slogan He kept us out of war. Five months into his second term, the sinking of the Lusitania led him to ask Congress for a declaration of war against Germany.

Wilson was the first Democrat elected president in the twentieth century, and the first Democratic president other than Grover Cleveland since Andrew Johnson.

He coined the term The Great Melting Pot referring to the United States.

Wilson appears on the Series 1934 $100,000 bill, a rare currency not for general circulation.

He was nominated in 2007 and 2008 for inclusion in the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

When the Senate defeated his proposal for the League of Nations, he correctly predicted another international conflict within a generation.

At the Paris peace conference in 1918, Wilson proposed an international body to handle disputes by negotiation rather than force—the League of Nations, forerunner to the United Nations.

Wilson was a member of Phi Kappa Psi fraternity.

He was the first sitting US president to visit the Pope.

Wilson was an avid automobile enthusiast, favoring his 1919 Pierce-Arrow, and advocated for federal funding for highway construction.

He created the Federal Reserve System.

Wilson was inducted into the 2010 New Jersey Hall of Fame.

His grandson, Francis Sayre, was born in the White House and later became dean of Washington National Cathedral.

A drive in Los Angeles is named after Wilson.

He was befriended by Harry Garfield, son of President James A. Garfield, while Garfield taught politics at Princeton and Wilson was its president.

Despite being known as a progressive, Wilson held reactionary views: he was a white supremacist, labeled immigrants hyphenated Americans, crushed the labor movement, and sent US troops to Russia to overturn the Bolshevik revolution. He also refused to listen to Ho Chi Minh at Versailles, a slight some attribute to the Vietnam War.

Radical folk singer Woody Guthrie, full name Woodrow Wilson Guthrie, was named after him but championed labor unlike Wilson.

Wilson was president of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society at the University of Virginia, whose members included Edgar Allan Poe, President James Madison honorary, and others.

He refused to condemn the British naval blockade of Germany in 1914, despite it violating the Hague Convention of 1907.

Wilson appears with Ignacy Jan Paderewski on a Polish commemorative postage stamp issued December 20, 2019, celebrating 100 years of US-Polish diplomatic relations.

He refused to support Irish independence after WWI, viewing the Anglo-Irish War as an internal UK matter.

He condemned the sinking of RMS Lusitania in May 1915, despite the ship carrying war munitions.

Wilson was the second US president to have more than one First Lady, after John Tyler.