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Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the son of a Presbyterian minister, born in Staunton,Virginia,1856.He went to Princeton,the University of Virginia and Johns Hopkins University,he became a professor at Princeton from (1890-1902).He also published the book, History of the American People1902. However,in the 1916 presidential election campaign Woodrow Wilson stressed his policy of neutrality and his team slogan: ''He kept us out of the war''.He was nominated for President at the 1912 Democratic Convention and campained on a program called the New Freedom, which stressed individualism and states' rights. In the three-way election he receved only 42 percent of the popular vote but an overwhelming electoral vote. Wilson maneuvered through Congress three major pieces of legislation. The first was a lower tariff, the Underwood Act; attached to the measure was a graduated Federal income tax. The passage of the Federal Reserve Act provided the Nation with the more elastic money supply it badly needed. In 1914 antitrust legislation established a Federal Trade Comission to prohibit unfair business practices.Woodrow Wilson tried in vain to bring the United States into the League of Nations.In 1919 Woodrow Wilson sufferd a major stroke that left him partly parilized and he didn't recover a whole lot so in 1924 he died in Washington D.C.