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Woodrow Wilson
| December 28, 1856 |
Thomas Woodrow Wilson is born in Staunton, Virginia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| May 15, 1860 |
Ellen Louise Axson, who becomes First Lady when husband Woodrow Wilson becomes President, is born, Rome, Georgia
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Savannah, Georgia births and deaths |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 19, 1882 |
Georgia admits Woodrow Wilson to the bar
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Woodrow Wilson |
| June 24, 1885 |
Woodrow Wilson marries Ellen Louise Axson.
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Woodrow Wilson |
| December 18, 1885 |
Edith Bolling, who will marry President Woodrow Wilson after the death of his first wife, is born in Washington D. C.
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Woodrow Wilson |
| April 16, 1886 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the first of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| August 28, 1887 |
Woodrow and Ellen Wilson have the second of their three daughters at Ellen's aunt's house in Gainesville, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| June 2, 1902 |
Woodrow Wilson elected president of Princeton University |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| November 5, 1912 |
Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States, defeating Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| March 4, 1913 |
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated President of the United States |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| August 6, 1914 |
Ellen Axson Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson, dies in the White House from complications due to Bright's Disease (an obsolete term for kidney disease)
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Woodrow Wilson |
| August 29, 1916 |
President Woodrow Wilson calls for legislation creating an eight-hour work day and time-and-a-half for overtime.
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William Charles Adamson |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| September 3, 1916 |
Wilson signs the Adamson Act into law, four days after it had been proposed by Georgia Congressman William Adamson, averting a looming railroad strike
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William Charles Adamson |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| November 7, 1916 |
Woodrow Wilson elected President of the United States for a second term, defeating Charles Evans Hughes. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| April 2, 1917 |
President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war on Germany
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Woodrow Wilson |
| April 6, 1917 |
United States declares war on Germany |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| September 25, 1919 |
President Woodrow Wilson suffers a mild stroke. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| October 2, 1919 |
President Wilson is incapacitated by a serious stroke. |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| March 4, 1921 |
End of Woodrow Wilson's term as President of the United States |
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Woodrow Wilson |
| February 3, 1924 |
Former President Woodrow Wilson, who grew up in Augusta and practiced law in Atlanta, died in Washington, D. C.
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Atlanta, Georgia (1900-2000) |
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City of Augusta, Georgia
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Woodrow Wilson |
| December 28, 1961 |
Edith Bolling Wilson dies, Washington, D. C.
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Woodrow Wilson |
| February 10, 1967 |
The 25th Amendment to the Constitution, defines presidential disability and succession, becomes law. Georgia does not ratify.
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Georgia, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the United States Constitution
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Woodrow Wilson |
Born in Virginia but raised in Georgia, Woodrow Wilson became an Atlanta lawyer after graduating from law school.
While he an instructor at Bryn Mawr, Wilson's wife returned to Gainsville, Georgia to have her first two daughters. Woodrow Wilson and Gainesville, Georgia
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