Woodrow+Wilson

Students around the world have to write an essay about a president in at some point in school and when that comes there going to pick the famous presidents like JFK or Washington. When time comes to write a paper about a president ask your teacher about the presidents who are not famous. Like Woodrow Wilson,William H. Taft, or Zachary Taylor. So next time you are going to write a essay about a president think about the presidents who are not recognized.

 Woodrow Wilson was the twenty-eighth president of the United States. Wilson was born in Virginia on December 28, 1856. Wilson died on February 3, 1924, in Washington D.C. Wilson had a big family, he had four children named Margret Wilson, Jessie, Eleanor, and Randolf. Even though Wilson was a president he still had hobbies, like golf, riding, and walking.

Wilson was a very smart man while he was growing up in Virgina, except that he had pore eyesight and dyslexia. When he was 16 he enrolled in Davidson College in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he did excellent in, but a year later he dropped out because of homesickness and Wilson was worried about his father. In 1875 he enrolled in the college of New jersey, which later on changed there name to “Princeton University”, and graduated thirty seven out of 167 in 1879, and after he was done with that college he enrolled in another one in Virgina. Wilson later on dropped out two years later due to falling in love with some one. Wilson went back home and started a law business with his friend from the University in Virgina and passed the “bar exam”. A year later Wilson was done with law and enrolled to John Hopkins University in Baltimore, and got his Ph.D in History and Political science, in 1886.

When Wilson was in office he did some great things for America. One of these was the Clayton Act and Federal Reserve Act. The federal Reserve Act in 1913 improved the nation’s monetary and banking system, the law created out modern banking system to this day, which looks like a pyramid, and at the top is the Federal Reserve Board which is chosen by the president and then come the twelve Federal Reserve Banks for different parts of the country. Then the bottom of the pyramid is the Banker’s Banks. This Act created a more flexible “currency system” by letting banks control the money supply. The Clayton Act in 1914 was a law for bidding businesses that could not buy other companies stock. This law gave the government more power to trusts. The addition of this Act was that it was prolabor, which let “labor unions and farm organizations merge and expand”. It had two other laws with it, one of these were, it limited the government and businesses to end strikes. The last one is it legalized “labor tactics” like strikes,picketing, and boycotting.

One interesting facts about Wilson Woodrow are that his father was a Presbyterian minister. The rest of the interesting facts are that Wilson threw the first pitch in a baseball game at Washington D.C. for the Yankees. Some myths about Wilson Woodrow is that he wrote a book and said “the president is the most heavily burdened officer in the world.” While Wilson was president he had some great quotes. One of these was “friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.” when Wilson was growing up he had some trouble reading cause Wilson had pore eyesight and dyslexia. President Wilson was a fan of baseball because when he was a kid he played baseball with all of his friends.

Even though president Wilson was in office we both have some similarities like the fact that we both like baseball. Some other thing are that we both set a goal in life and are trying to achieve it, except that Wilson already reached his goal, so its my turn to try. And the last thing is that we both are trying to make a difference in the world. President Wilson and I have some likes but we both have differences too like the fact that he was a president and that he made a difference in the world. And I’m only in the 8th grade and trying to fulfill my dream in life. After reading these facts about Wilson Woodrow he has inspired me to try to fulfill my dream. Which is to play in Major League Baseball. If he can become a president out of all the people in America than maybe I can play Major League Baseball.

So remember when you have to write a paper on presidents, try to shine some light on the presidents who are not recognized for all of their accomplishments and helped change America as we know it. All of our presidents should be recognized because they all did something for out country, like Woodrow Wilson he kept us out of war and passed different laws, such as the “Clayton Act” and the “Federal Reserve Act”. So shine some light on those who are forgotten. Created by: Tye Ahlgrim