Below are two posters of Woodrow Wilson, the twenty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1913-1921. These Woodrow Wilson posters show the entrance of the United States into World War I on April 2, 1917 and his Nobel Peace Prize.
He became the President of the United States in 1913 and served through World War I. President Woodrow Wilson served a second term that ended in 1921. He was born in 1856 in Virginia, but grew up primarily in the deep south of Augusta, Georgia. Wilson graduated from Princeton University in 1879 with an undergraduate degree and earned his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Woodrow Wilson served as President of Princeton University from 1902 until 1910. He was a Democrat that served as Governor of New Jersey from 1911-1913. As President, Woodrow Wilson tried to keep America out of the war in Europe. However, in April of 1917, President Wilson declared war against Germany and later against Austria-Hungary.
