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Woodrow Wilson

Early Life and Family

What did his father do for a living?

Joseph Wilson served as a Presbyterian minister and a teacher of theology. He moved around to various churches, which explains why the family left Virginia. When young Woodrow was one year old, the family moved from Virginia to Augusta, Georgia, and later to Columbia, South Carolina.



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