Born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia, Thomas Woodruff Wilson would grow up to become an accomplished man in the world of politics. Growing up in the South, he witnessed the Civil War in action and its aftermath, as the son of a Presbyterian family. Woodruff earned several degrees as a hard-working scholar and passionate speaker, all before pursuing his academic career. Trapped in booming politics, he was elected governor of New Jersey for two years and didn't finish the last two, so he could become the 28th two-term President of the United States of America. During World War I, he went through difficulties drafting the Treaty of Versailles and introducing a League of Nations, an idea of ​​world peace at the United Nations. After suffering a second stroke during his final year as president, he died three years later after leaving office. Radical middle-class reforms, women's suffrage, and dreams of world peace were all his legacy. Growing up, Wilson's family lived all over the South from Staunton, Virginia to Augusta, Georgia to Columbia, South Carolina. As he moved through the South, Wilson became caught up in the bitter Civil War and adopted the Confederate cause. During the ravages of war, his mother, Jessie Janet Woodruff, helped care for wounded soldiers. In fact, he claims to have witnessed Confederate President Jefferson Davis in chains and look into the face of General Robet E. Lee's defeat at Augusta, Georgia, and he will never forget it. What started his political career was his father, Joseph Ruggles Wilson. Under pressure from his father when he was a young child, he was led to maintain studious habits. However, Tommy (that was his childhood nickname) was not the brightest student in school. Scholars now...... middle of paper ...... second term completed, Wilson died on February 14, 1924 at the age of 67. They had him buried in the Washington National Cathedral. Thomas Woodruff Wilson was moved with a passionate sense of having a mission and his father's ideal, to leave the world a better place than you found it. His legacy of peace, statesmanship, social and financial reform and the many schools and programs that bear his name, including the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation and his former alma mater, the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International in Princeton University, still continues today. Business, but his greatest dream will forever be his greatest legacy; The League of Nations, still in operation today. Works Cited Woodrow Wilson. (2014). The Biography Channel website. Retrieved at 8:16 a.m. January 5, 2014 from http://www.biography.com/people/woodrow-wilson-9534272.