28th President Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia. Before being elected president in 1912, Wilson served as President of Princeton University and Governor of New Jersey. Wilson became the first president to visit Europe during the Paris Peace Conference following World War I and was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1919 after lobbying for American participation in the League of Nations.
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