Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856–February 3,
1924)[1] was the 28th President of the United States. A
devout Presbyterian and leading intellectual of the
Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton
University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of
New Jersey from 1911 to 1913. With Theodore Roosevelt and
William Howard Taft dividing the Republican Party vote,
Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912. To date
he is the only President to serve in a political office in
New Jersey before election to the Presidency, although
Grover Cleveland is the only President born in the state of
New Jersey. Early in his first term, he supported some
cabinet appointees in introducing segregation in the federal
workplace of several departments, a Democratic Congress to
pass major legislation that included the Federal Trade
Commission and the Clayton Antitrust Act, the Federal Farm
Loan Act, and more.