101 Facts About Wilson Washington

1. Wilson Washington has become a partner with Bash Boxing, which is a "high-intensity interval training workout studio with plans to grow in the DC area and beyond", according to the Washington Business Journal.

2. Wilson Washington has become a partner with Bash Boxing, which is a "high-intensity interval training workout studio with plans to grow in the DC area and beyond", according to the Washington Business Journal.

3. Wilson Washington won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1919 for his efforts to avert future world wars.

4. Wilson Washington responded by sending 6,000 troops under General John Pershing to the area.

5. Wilson Washington was the first president to receive a PhD which he got in Political Science from Johns Hopkins University.

6. Woodrow Wilson Washington was born on December 28, 1856 in Staunton, Virginia.

7. Wilson Washington is survived by her 2 children, Randall Wilson Washington and Pamela Lucas both of Yakima.

8. Wilson Washington has become a partner with Bash Boxing, which is a "high-intensity interval training workout studio with plans to grow in the DC area and beyond", according to the Washington Business Journal.

9. Wilson Washington prevailed in the 1916 election, becoming the first Democrat to win a second consecutive term since Andrew Jackson.

10. Wilson Washington kept Congress in session continually from April 1913 to October 1914, almost a year and a half, something that had never before happened, not even during the Civil War.

11. Wilson Washington was the only president since Andrew Jackson to have a foreign-born parent.

12. Wilson Washington led his country into World War I and became the creator and leading advocate of the League of Nations, for which he was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize for Peace.

13. In terms of Reconstruction, Wilson Washington held the common Southern view that the South was demoralized by Northern carpetbaggers and that overreach on the part of the Radical Republicans justified extreme measures to reassert Democratic national and state governments.

14. Wilson Washington was the first Southerner to be elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848, and his ascension to the presidency was celebrated by Southern segregationists.

15. Wilson Washington agreed to the creation of mandates in former German and Ottoman territories, allowing the European powers and Japan to establish de facto colonies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia.

16. Wilson Washington called for the establishment of an association of nations to guarantee the independence and territorial integrity of all nations—a League of Nations.

17. Wilson Washington was renominated at the 1916 Democratic National Convention without opposition.

18. Wilson Washington joined John Tyler and Grover Cleveland as the only presidents to marry while in office.

19. Wilson Washington extracted from Germany a pledge to constrain submarine warfare to the rules of cruiser warfare, which represented a major diplomatic concession.

20. Wilson Washington took office during the Mexican Revolution, which had begun in 1911 after liberals overthrew the military dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz.

21. Wilson Washington sought to move away from the foreign policy of his predecessors, which he viewed as imperialistic, and he rejected Taft's Dollar Diplomacy.

22. Wilson Washington appointed three individuals to the United States Supreme Court while president.

23. Wilson Washington increased self-governance on the islands by granting Filipinos greater control over the Philippine Legislature.

24. Wilson Washington convinced Bryan's supporters that the plan met their demands for an elastic currency because Federal Reserve notes would be obligations of the government.

25. Wilson Washington sought a middle ground between progressives such as Bryan and conservative Republicans like Nelson Aldrich, who, as chairman of the National Monetary Commission, had put forward a plan for a central bank that would give private financial interests a large degree of control over the monetary system.

26. Wilson Washington signed the Revenue Act of 1913 into law on October 3, 1913.

27. Wilson Washington engaged in a spirited campaign, criss-crossing the country to deliver numerous speeches.

28. Wilson Washington finally won two-thirds of the vote on the convention's 46th ballot, and Marshall became Wilson's running mate.

29. Wilson Washington became a prominent 1912 presidential contender immediately upon his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910, and his clashes with state party bosses enhanced his reputation with the rising Progressive movement.

30. In late 1883, Wilson Washington entered Johns Hopkins University, a new graduate institution in Baltimore modeled after German universities.

31. Wilson Washington was born to a Scots-Irish family in Staunton, Virginia, on December 28, 1856.

32. Wilson Washington presided over the passage of the Federal Reserve Act, which created a central banking system in the form of the Federal Reserve System.

33. Wilson Washington defeated incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft and Progressive Party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to win the 1912 presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to serve as president since the Civil War.

34. Wilson Washington tips his hat as he exits the White House on his way to a parade along Pennsylvania Avenue.

35. Woodrow Wilson Washington was an accomplished author and scholar, having written numerous books and essays.

36. In 2010, Wilson Washington was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame.

37. Wilson Washington tried to stop its showing during the World War.

38. On February 3, 1924, Wilson Washington died at home of a stroke and other heart-related problems at age 67.

39. On November 10, 1923, Wilson Washington made a short Armistice Day radio speech from the library of his home, his last national address.

40. Wilson Washington experienced more success with his return to writing, and he published short works on the international impact of the American Revolution and the rise of totalitarianism.

41. In 1921, Wilson Washington opened a law office with former Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby, but Wilson's second attempt at practicing law proved no more enjoyable than his first, and the practice was closed by the end of 1922.

42. Wilson Washington was one of only two US Presidents to have served as president of the American Historical Association.

43. Wilson Washington moved his private supply of alcoholic beverages to the wine cellar of his Washington residence after his term of office ended.

44. Wilson Washington felt Prohibition was unenforceable, but his veto of the Volstead Act was overridden by Congress.

45. In May 1920, Wilson Washington sent a long-deferred proposal to Congress to have the US accept a mandate from the League of Nations to take over Armenia.

46. Wilson Washington expressed sympathy for the plight of Jews, especially in Poland and France.

47. In 1919, Wilson Washington guided American foreign policy to "acquiesce" in the Balfour Declaration without supporting Zionism in an official way.

48. Wilson Washington had a series of debilitating strokes and had to cut short his trip on September 26, 1919.

49. Wilson Washington had earlier downplayed Germany's guilt in starting the war by calling for "peace without victory", but he had taken an increasingly hard stand at Paris and rejected advice to soften the treaty's treatment of Germany.

50. Wilson Washington was indifferent to the issue, but acceded to strong opposition from Australia and Britain.

51. Wilson Washington gave a speech at the Metropolitan Opera House in defense of the League—he was more insistent about it than ever.

52. Wilson Washington initially rebuffed pleas from the Allies to dedicate military resources to an intervention in Russia against the Bolsheviks, based partially on his experience from attempted intervention in Mexico; nevertheless he ultimately was convinced of the potential benefit and agreed to dispatch a limited force to assist the Allies on the eastern front.

53. Wilson Washington refused to make a formal alliance with Britain or France but operated as an "associated" power—an informal ally with military cooperation through the Supreme War Council in London.

54. The German government, Wilson Washington said, "means to stir up enemies against us at our very doors".

55. Wilson Washington delivered his War Message to a special session of Congress on April 2, 1917, declaring that Germany's latest pronouncement had rendered his "armed neutrality" policy untenable and asking Congress to declare Germany's war stance was an act of war.

56. Wilson Washington insisted a league of nations was the solution to ending the war.

57. Wilson Washington won California by 3,773 of almost a million votes cast, and New Hampshire by 56 votes.

58. Wilson Washington made his final offer to mediate peace on December 18, 1916.

59. Wilson Washington threatened a diplomatic break unless Germany repudiated the action; Germany then gave a written promise: "liners will not be sunk by our submarines".

60. Wilson Washington made numerous offers to mediate and sent Colonel House on diplomatic missions; both sides politely dismissed these overtures.

61. Wilson Washington was the third president to marry while in office.

62. Wilson Washington began pushing for legislation which culminated with the Federal Trade Commission Act signed in September 1914.

63. Wilson Washington named Paul Warburg and other prominent bankers to direct the new system.

64. Wilson Washington appealed to African Americans and promised to work for them, gaining some support among them in the North at the expense of the Republicans.

65. Wilson Washington directed Chairman of Finance Henry Morgenthau not to accept contributions from corporations and to prioritize smaller donations from the widest possible quarters of the public, and Morgenthau did this.

66. Wilson Washington managed to maneuver through the complexities of local politics.

67. Wilson Washington began a public campaign for the nomination in the South, with a speech to the Pewter Platter Club in Norfolk, Virginia.

68. Wilson Washington appointed Joseph Patrick Tumulty as his private secretary, a position he held throughout Wilson's political career.

69. Wilson Washington was elected president of the American Political Science Association in 1910, but soon decided to leave his Princeton post and enter New Jersey state politics.

70. From its outset, Wilson Washington became disenchanted with resistance to his recommendations at Princeton; he ruminated on future political leadership.

71. Wilson Washington persisted, saying that giving in "would be to temporize with evil".

72. Wilson Washington had in the past been offered the presidency at the University of Illinois in 1892, and at the University of Virginia in 1901, both of which he declined.

73. Wilson Washington hoped that the parties could be reorganized along ideological, not geographic, lines.

74. Wilson Washington believed that America's system of checks and balances complicated American governance.

75. In 1888, Wilson Washington left Bryn Mawr for Wesleyan University; it was a controversial move, as he had signed a three-year contract with Bryn Mawr in 1887.

76. Wilson Washington was an automobile enthusiast and, while President, he took daily rides in his favorite car, a 1919 Pierce-Arrow.

77. Wilson Washington began reading at age ten; the delayed start was possibly caused by dyslexia.

78. Wilson Washington retired from public office in 1921, and died in 1924.

79. Early in 1918, Wilson Washington issued his principles for an end to the war, the Fourteen Points.

80. Wilson Washington staffed his cabinet and administration with numerous Southern Democrats; they insisted on racial segregation at the Treasury Department and other federal offices.

81. Wilson Washington won the 1912 election with a plurality of the popular vote and a large majority in the Electoral College.

82. On May 10, 2013, Wilson Washington made his NHL debut when he suited up with the Capitals for Game 5 of their 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs series against the New York Rangers.

83. Wilson Washington won the Stanley Cup with the Capitals in 2018.

84. Woodrow Wilson Washington died from a stroke and heart complications at the age of 67, on February 3, 1924.

85. Woodrow Wilson Washington was appointed to teach at Bryn Mawr and Wesleyan.

86. Wilson Washington made a partial recovery, but spent his remaining years seriously disabled.

87. Wilson Washington toured the nation in an effort to increase public support for the League.

88. Wilson Washington was nominated as the Democratic presidential candidate on the New Freedom platform in 1912, opposing Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.

89. Woodrow Wilson Washington was the two-term 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921.

90. Wilson Washington spent his youth in the South observing the Civil War and its aftermath.

91. Wilson Washington created the Federal Reserve and supported the 19th Amendment, allowing women to vote.

92. Wilson Washington died at his home on February 3, 1924, at age 67.

93. Wilson Washington graduated from Princeton University in 1879 and went on to attend law school at the University of Virginia.

94. Wilson Washington tried to keep the United States neutral during World War I but ultimately called on Congress to declare war on Germany in 1917.

95. Wilson Washington was a college professor, university president and Democratic governor of New Jersey before winning the White House in 1912.

96. At the age of 21, Wilson Washington was sent to lead a British colonial force against the French in Ohio.

97. Wilson Washington took this skill with him into his role as a military leader.

98. Wilson Washington requested that he be buried at Mount Vernon, and his family upheld his request, despite repeated pleas by Congress.

99. Wilson Washington spent the early part of his career as a professional surveyor.

100. Wilson Washington actually had to borrow money to attend his own first inauguration.

101. In 1976 Wilson Washington was posthumously awarded the highest rank in the US military—ever.