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James Benjamin Aswell (1869-1931) —
also known as James B. Aswell —
of Natchitoches, Natchitoches
Parish, La.
Born in Jackson
Parish, La., December
23, 1869.
Democrat. School teacher
and principal; Louisiana
superintendent of public instruction, 1904-08; Chancellor,
University of Mississippi, 1907; president, Louisiana State
Normal College, 1908-11; U.S.
Representative from Louisiana 8th District, 1913-31; died in
office 1931.
Baptist.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March
16, 1931 (age 61 years, 83
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Abraham Baldwin (1754-1807) —
of Augusta, Richmond
County, Ga.
Born in North Guilford, Guilford, New Haven
County, Conn., November
22, 1754.
Served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War; lawyer;
member of Georgia
state house of representatives, 1785; Delegate
to Continental Congress from Georgia, 1785, 1787-89; member,
U.S. Constitutional Convention, 1787; U.S.
Representative from Georgia at-large, 1789-99; U.S.
Senator from Georgia, 1799-1807; died in office 1807.
Congregationalist.
Member, Society
of the Cincinnati.
One of the founders,
and first president, of Franklin College, which later became
the University of Georgia.
Died in Washington,
D.C., March 4,
1807 (age 52 years, 102
days).
Interment at Rock
Creek Cemetery, Washington, D.C.; cenotaph at Greenfield
Hill Cemetery, Fairfield, Conn.
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David Lyle Boren (b. 1941) —
also known as David L. Boren —
of Seminole, Seminole
County, Okla.; Norman, Cleveland
County, Okla.
Born in Washington,
D.C., April
21, 1941.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; lawyer;
member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1967-75; Governor of
Oklahoma, 1975-79; delegate to Democratic National Convention
from Oklahoma, 1976;
U.S.
Senator from Oklahoma, 1979-94; resigned 1994.
Methodist.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa.
President, University of Oklahoma.
Still living as of 2014.
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John Brademas (1927-2016) —
of South Bend, St. Joseph
County, Ind.
Born in Mishawaka, St. Joseph
County, Ind., March 2,
1927.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; legislative assistant to U.S. Sen. Patrick
McNamara; administrative assistant to U.S. Rep Thomas
L. Ashley; executive assistant to presidential candidate Adlai
E. Stevenson; college
professor; U.S.
Representative from Indiana 3rd District, 1959-81; defeated,
1954, 1956; delegate to Democratic National Convention from Indiana,
1964,
1968,
1972;
president, New York University, 1981-92.
Methodist.
Greek
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Freemasons;
Order
of Ahepa; Eagles;
Moose;
Phi
Beta Kappa.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 11,
2016 (age 89 years, 131
days).
Entombed at Congressional
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Sylvia Mathews Burwell (b. 1955) —
also known as Sylvia Mary Mathews —
of Washington,
D.C.
Born in Hinton, Summers
County, W.Va., June 23,
1955.
Democrat. Rhodes
scholar; U.S.
Secretary of Health and Human Services, 2014-17;
president, American Univrsity, 2017-.
Female.
Greek
ancestry.
Still living as of 2019.
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Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry (1825-1903) —
also known as Jabez L. M. Curry —
of Talladega, Talladega
County, Ala.; Washington,
D.C.
Born near Double Branches, Lincoln
County, Ga., June 5,
1825.
Lawyer;
served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War; member of Alabama
state house of representatives, 1847-48, 1853-57; U.S.
Representative from Alabama 7th District, 1857-61; Delegate
from Alabama to the Confederate Provisional Congress, 1861-62; Representative
from Alabama in the Confederate Congress 4th District, 1862-64;
defeated, 1863; colonel in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
president, Howard College, Alabama, 1866-68; college
professor; U.S. Minister to Spain, 1885-88.
Baptist.
Slaveowner.
Died near Asheville, Buncombe
County, N.C., February
12, 1903 (age 77 years, 252
days).
Interment at Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Va.
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Dwight David Eisenhower (1890-1969) —
also known as Dwight D. Eisenhower;
"Ike" —
Born in Denison, Grayson
County, Tex., October
14, 1890.
Republican. General in the U.S. Army during World War II;
president of Columbia University, 1948-53; President
of the United States, 1953-61.
Presbyterian.
German
and Swiss
ancestry. Member, American
Legion; Council on
Foreign Relations; Loyal
Legion.
Died, after a series of heart
attacks, at Walter
Reed Army Hospital, Washington,
D.C., March
28, 1969 (age 78 years, 165
days).
Interment at Eisenhower
Center, Abilene, Kan.
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Relatives: Son
of Ida Elizabeth (Stover) Eisenhower and David Jacob Eisenhower;
brother of Milton
Stover Eisenhower; married, July 1,
1916, to Mamie
Eisenhower; father of John
Sheldon Doud Eisenhower; grandfather of Dwight David Eisenhower
II (son-in-law of Richard
Milhous Nixon). |
| | | Political family: Eisenhower-Nixon
family (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: Sherman
Adams — Carter
L. Burgess — Woodrow
Wilson Mann — Jacqueline
C. Odlum — George
E. Allen — Meyer
Kestnbaum — Bernard
M. Shanley |
| | | The Eisenhower Expressway,
from downtown Chicago west to Hillside, in Cook
County, Illinois, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Tunnel
(opened 1973), which carries westbound I-70 under the Continental
Divide, in the Rocky Mountains, from Clear
Creek County to Summit
County, Colorado, is named for
him. — The Eisenhower Range of mountains,
in Victoria
Land, Antarctica, is named for
him. — Mount
Eisenhower (formerly Mount Pleasant), in the White Mountains, Coos
County, New Hampshire, is named for
him. |
| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $1 coin (1971-78). |
| | | Campaign slogan: "I Like
Ike." |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Internet Movie Database
profile — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Dwight D. Eisenhower:
Stephen E. Ambrose, Eisenhower
: Soldier and President — Fred I. Greenstein, The
Hidden-Hand Presidency : Eisenhower as Leader — Carlo
d'Este, Eisenhower
: A Soldier's Life — Robert F. Burk, Dwight
D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician — Wiley T.
Buchanan, Jr., Red
Carpet at the White House : Four years as Chief of Protocol in the
Eisenhower Administration — Jim Newton, Eisenhower:
The White House Years — William Lee Miller, Two
Americans: Truman, Eisenhower, and a Dangerous
World |
| | | Image source: U.S. postage stamp
(1969) |
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Charles Calvert Ellis (1874-1950) —
also known as Charles C. Ellis —
of Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa.; Huntingdon, Huntingdon
County, Pa.
Born in Washington,
D.C., July 21,
1874.
School
teacher; pastor; college
professor; president, Juniata College, 1930-43; Dry
candidate for delegate
to Pennsylvania convention to ratify 21st amendment, 1933.
Brethren.
Died, in Presbyterian Hospital,
Philadelphia, Philadelphia
County, Pa., June 27,
1950 (age 75 years, 341
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Jennings Ellis and Kate Calvert (Kane) Ellis; married, December
25, 1902, to Emma Susan Nice. |
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Woodbridge Nathan Ferris (1853-1928) —
also known as Woodbridge N. Ferris; "The Big Rapids
Schoolmaster"; "The Good Grey
Governor" —
of Big Rapids, Mecosta
County, Mich.
Born in a log
cabin near Spencer, Tioga
County, N.Y., January
6, 1853.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; founder and president, Ferris Institute, later
Ferris State University; candidate for U.S.
Representative from Michigan 11th District, 1892; candidate for
Michigan
superintendent of public instruction, 1902; candidate for University
of Michigan board of regents, 1907; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Michigan, 1912
(Honorary
Vice-President), 1916,
1924;
Governor
of Michigan, 1913-16; defeated, 1904, 1920; president, Big Rapids
Savings Bank; U.S.
Senator from Michigan, 1923-28; died in office 1928; candidate
for Democratic nomination for President, 1924.
Died, of bronchial
pneumonia, in Washington,
D.C., March
23, 1928 (age 75 years, 77
days).
Interment at Highland
View Cemetery, Big Rapids, Mich.
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Simeon Davison Fess (1861-1936) —
also known as Simeon D. Fess —
of Yellow Springs, Greene
County, Ohio.
Born near Lima, Allen
County, Ohio, December
11, 1861.
Republican. University
professor; author; editor;
president of Ohio Northern University; president of
Antioch College 1907-17; delegate
to Ohio state constitutional convention, 1912; U.S.
Representative from Ohio, 1913-23 (6th District 1913-15, 7th
District 1915-23); U.S.
Senator from Ohio, 1923-35; delegate to Republican National
Convention from Ohio, 1924,
1932;
Temporary Chair, 1928;
chair, Committee to Notify Vice-Presidential Nominee, chair, 1928;
speaker, 1928;
Chairman
of Republican National Committee, 1930-32.
Methodist.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
of Pythias.
Died in Washington,
D.C., December
23, 1936 (age 75 years, 12
days).
Interment at Glen
Forest Cemetery, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
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Relatives: Son
of Henry Fess and Barbara (Herring) Fess; married 1890 to Eva
Candice Thomas; father of Hamilton
Lehr Fess. |
| | | Epitaph: "A great teacher and orator
whoe life and character were a source of inspiration in the lives of
thousands. Authority on history and government, leader of his
colleagues and confidant of presidents. A genuine patriot whose
loyalty and unimpeachable integrity never yielded to expediency or
compromised a conviction." |
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Arthur Sherwood Flemming (1905-1996) —
also known as Arthur S. Flemming —
of Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y.; Delaware, Delaware
County, Ohio; Eugene, Lane
County, Ore.
Born in Kingston, Ulster
County, N.Y., June 12,
1905.
Republican. Member, U.S. Civil Service Commission, 1939-48;
president, Ohio-Wesleyan University, 1948-53; U.S.
Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare, 1958-61; delegate to
Republican National Convention from Ohio, 1960;
president, University of Oregon, 1961-68; president,
Macalester College, 1968-71.
Methodist.
Member, American
Society for Public Administration; Alpha
Sigma Phi; Delta
Sigma Rho; Omicron
Delta Kappa.
Received the Medal
of Freedom in 1994.
Died of acute renal
failure, at a retirement
home in Alexandria,
Va., September
7, 1996 (age 91 years, 87
days).
Interment at Montrepose
Cemetery, Kingston, N.Y.
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Joseph Smith Fowler (1820-1902) —
also known as Joseph S. Fowler —
of Nashville, Davidson
County, Tenn.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Steubenville, Jefferson
County, Ohio, August
31, 1820.
Republican. College
professor; president, Howard Female College, Gallatin,
Tenn., 1856-61; lawyer; U.S.
Senator from Tennessee, 1866-71; member of Republican
National Committee from Tennessee, 1866-68; candidate for
Presidential Elector for Tennessee.
Died in Washington,
D.C., April 1,
1902 (age 81 years, 213
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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James Abram Garfield (1831-1881) —
also known as James A. Garfield —
of Hiram, Portage
County, Ohio.
Born in a log
cabin near Orange, Cuyahoga
County, Ohio, November
19, 1831.
Republican. Lawyer; college
professor; president, Eclectic University (now Hiram
College); member of Ohio
state senate, 1859-61; general in the Union Army during the Civil
War; U.S.
Representative from Ohio 19th District, 1863-81; President
of the United States, 1881; died in office 1881.
Disciples
of Christ. English
ancestry. Member, Freemasons;
Delta
Upsilon.
Shot
by the assassin
Charles J. Guiteau, in the Baltimore & Potomac Railroad
Station, Washington, D.C., July 2, 1881, and died from the
effects of the wound and infection,
in Elberon, Monmouth
County, N.J., September
19, 1881 (age 49 years, 304
days).
Entombed at Lake
View Cemetery, Cleveland, Ohio; statue erected 1887 at Garfield
Circle, Washington, D.C.; statue at Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, Calif.
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Relatives: Son
of Abram Garfield and Elizabeth (Ballou) Garfield; married, November
11, 1858, to Lucretia
Rudolph; father of Harry
Augustus Garfield and James
Rudolph Garfield; fourth cousin of Eli
Thayer; fourth cousin once removed of John
Alden Thayer. |
| | | Political families: Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
S. Maynard |
| | | Garfield counties in Colo., Mont., Neb., Okla., Utah and Wash. are
named for him. |
| | | Garfield Mountain,
in the Cascade Range, King
County, Washington, is named for
him. — The city
of Garfield,
New Jersey, is named for
him. |
| | | Politician named for him: James
G. Stewart
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $20 gold certificate in 1898-1905.
|
| | | See also congressional
biography — Govtrack.us
page — Wikipedia article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about James A. Garfield: Allan
Peskin, Garfield:
A Biography — Justus D. Doenecke, The
Presidencies of James A. Garfield and Chester A.
Arthur |
| | | Image source: James G. Blaine, Twenty
Years of Congress, vol. 2 (1886) |
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David Jayne Hill (1850-1932) —
also known as David J. Hill —
of Lewisburg, Union
County, Pa.; Rochester, Monroe
County, N.Y.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Plainfield, Union
County, N.J., June 10,
1850.
Historian;
president, Bucknell University, 1879-88; president,
University of Rochester, 1888-96; U.S. Minister to Switzerland, 1903-05; Netherlands, 1905-08; Luxembourg, 1905-08; U.S. Ambassador to Germany, 1908-11.
Member, American
Philosophical Society; American
Historical Association; Sons of
the American Revolution.
Died in 1932
(age about
82 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Edwin Freemont Ladd (1859-1925) —
also known as Edwin F. Ladd —
of Fargo, Cass
County, N.Dak.
Born in Starks, Somerset
County, Maine, December
13, 1859.
Republican. Chemist;
college
professor; president, North Dakota Agricultural College
(now North Dakota State University), 1916-21; U.S.
Senator from North Dakota, 1921-25; died in office 1925.
Member, Phi
Gamma Delta.
Died in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore,
Md., June 22,
1925 (age 65 years, 191
days).
Interment at Glenwood
Cemetery, Washington, D.C.
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Marion Letcher (b. 1872) —
of Douglasville, Douglas
County, Ga.; Conyers, Rockdale
County, Ga.; Washington,
D.C.
Born in Shorter, Macon
County, Ala., September
4, 1872.
School
principal; served in the U.S. Army during the Spanish-American
War; president, Douglasville College (Douglasville, Ga.),
1900-01; superintendent
of schools; U.S. Consul in Acapulco, 1909-11; Chihuahua, 1911-16; U.S. Consul General in Christiania, 1919-20; Callao-Lima, 1920; Copenhagen, as of 1921-26; Antwerp, as of 1929-32.
Burial location unknown.
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Martin Thomas Meehan (b. 1956) —
also known as Martin T. Meehan; Marty
Meehan —
of Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass.
Born in Lowell, Middlesex
County, Mass., December
30, 1956.
Democrat. Delegate to Democratic National Convention from
Massachusetts, 1980,
1996,
2000,
2004;
U.S.
Representative from Massachusetts 5th District, 1993-2007;
resigned 2007; chancellor, University of Massachusetts,
Lowell, 2007.
Catholic.
Still living as of 2014.
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Josiah Meigs (1757-1822) —
of New Haven, New Haven
County, Conn.; St. Georges, Bermuda;
Athens, Clarke
County, Ga.
Born in Middletown, Middlesex
County, Conn., August
21, 1757.
Lawyer;
newspaper
editor and publisher; acting president, University of
Georgia, 1801-10; U.S. Surveyor General, 1812-14; Commissioner of the
General Land Office, 1814-22; died in office 1822.
Member, American
Philosophical Society.
Died in Washington,
D.C., September
4, 1822 (age 65 years, 14
days).
Original interment at Holmead's Burying Ground, Washington, D.C.; reinterment in 1878
at Arlington
National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
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Relatives: Son
of Jonathan Meigs and Elizabeth (Hamlin) Meigs; brother of Return
Jonathan Meigs, Sr.; married 1782 to Clara
Benjamin; father of Henry
Meigs and Clara Meigs (who married John
Forsyth); uncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs Jr.; grandfather of Henry
Meigs Jr. and John
Forsyth Jr.; granduncle of Return
Jonathan Meigs III; first cousin once removed of Martin
Chittenden; first cousin twice removed of Chittenden
Lyon; second cousin twice removed of John
Willard; second cousin thrice removed of Roger
Calvin Leete; third cousin once removed of Elijah
Hunt Mills; third cousin twice removed of Elisha
Hotchkiss Jr., Elisha
Hunt Allen, Anson
Levi Holcomb, Gouverneur
Morris, Ensign
Hosmer Kellogg, William
Dean Kellogg and Charles
Jenkins Hayden; third cousin thrice removed of Charles
H. Eastman, William
Fessenden Allen, Rush
Green Leaming, Frederick
Walker Pitkin, Alvred
Bayard Nettleton, Robert
Cleveland Usher, Charles
M. Hotchkiss, Frederick
Hobbes Allen, Allen
Clarence Wilcox and Carl
Trumbull Hayden; fourth cousin of Thomas
Chittenden; fourth cousin once removed of Zina
Hyde Jr.. |
| | | Political families: Kellogg-Adams-Seymour-Chapin
family of Connecticut and New York; Morris-Ingersoll
family of New York and Connecticut; Conger-Hungerford
family of Connecticut and New York; Livingston-Schuyler
family of New York (subsets of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | The city
of Meigs,
Georgia, is named for
him. |
| | | See also Wikipedia
article — Find-A-Grave
memorial |
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Robert Clifton Weaver (1907-1997) —
also known as Robert C. Weaver —
of Washington,
D.C.; Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in Washington,
D.C., December
29, 1907.
Democrat. Economist;
received the Spingarn
Medal in 1962; U.S.
Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, 1966-68; first
African-American cabinet member; speaker, Democratic National Convention, 1968 ;
president, Baruch College, 1969; trustee, Mount Sinai Medical
Center.
Methodist.
African
ancestry. Member, NAACP; Americans
for Democratic Action.
Died in Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y., July 17,
1997 (age 89 years, 200
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) —
also known as Thomas Woodrow Wilson; "Schoolmaster in
Politics" —
of New Jersey.
Born in Staunton,
Va., December
28, 1856.
Democrat. University
professor; president of Princeton University, 1902-10; Governor of
New Jersey, 1911-13; President
of the United States, 1913-21.
Presbyterian.
Member, Phi
Kappa Psi; Phi
Alpha Delta.
Recipient of Nobel
Peace Prize in 1919; elected to the Hall
of Fame for Great Americans in 1950.
Died in Washington,
D.C., February
3, 1924 (age 67 years, 37
days).
Entombed at Washington
National Cathedral, Washington, D.C.; statue erected 2011 at Main Railway Station, Prague, Czechia.
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Relatives: Son
of Rev. Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Janet 'Jessie' (Woodrow) Wilson;
married, June 24,
1885, to Ellen
Wilson; married, December
18, 1915, to Edith
Wilson; father of Eleanor Randolph Wilson (who married William
Gibbs McAdoo); grandfather of Woodrow
Wilson Sayre. |
| | | Political family: Harrison-Randolph-Marshall-Cabell
family of Virginia (subset of the Four
Thousand Related Politicians). |
| | | Cross-reference: William
C. Bullitt — Bainbridge
Colby — Joseph
E. Davies — Joseph
P. Tumulty — Thomas
H. Birch — Byron
R. Newton |
| | | Mount
Woodrow Wilson, in Fremont
County and Sublette
County, Wyoming, is named for
him. — Woodrow Wilson Plaza,
in the Federal Triangle, Washington,
D.C., is is named for
him. — Wilson Dam
(built 1924), on the Tennessee River in Colbert
and Lauderdale
counties, Alabama, as well as the Wilson Lake
reservoir, which extends into Lawrence
county, are named for
him. — Rambla
Presidente Wilson, in Montevideo,
Uruguay, is named for
him. |
| | | Other politicians named for him: Woodrow
W. Bean
— Woodrow
W. Jones
— Woodrow
W. Scott
— Tom
Woodrow Payne
— W.
W. Dumas
— Woodrow
Wilson Mann
— Woodrow
W. Lavender
— Woodrow
W. Baird
— Woodrow
W. Mathna
— Woodrow
W. Hulme
— Woodrow
W. Kline
— Woodrow
W. McDonald
— Woodrow
W. Hollan
— Woodrow
W. Carter
— Woodrow
W. Ferguson
— W.
Wilson Goode
— Woodrow
Wilson Storey
— Woodrow
W. Bean III
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| | | Coins and currency: His portrait
appeared on the U.S. $100,000 gold certificate, which was issued
in 1934-45 for cash transactions between banks. |
| | | Campaign slogan (1916): "He kept us out
of war." |
| | | See also National
Governors Association biography — Wikipedia
article — NNDB
dossier — Find-A-Grave
memorial — OurCampaigns
candidate detail |
| | | Books about Woodrow Wilson: Louis
Auchincloss, Woodrow
Wilson — Herbert Hoover, The
Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson — James Chace, 1912
: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft and Debs : The Election that Changed the
Country — John Milton Cooper, Reconsidering
Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and
Peace — A. Scott Berg, Wilson —
Anne Schraff, Woodrow
Wilson (for young readers) |
| | | Critical books about Woodrow Wilson:
Jim Powell, Wilson's
War : How Woodrow Wilson's Great Blunder Led to Hitler, Lenin,
Stalin, and World War II |
| | | Image source: American Monthly Review
of Reviews, July 1902 |
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