On Election Day, Wilson won only 42 percent of the popular vote, but he became the 28th president. By 1916, Republicans were no longer fractured when the Democratic convention was held in St. Louis.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband’s condition from the press and public.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband’s condition from the press and public.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband's condition from the press and public.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband's condition from the press and public.

Decades earlier, in 1836, Woodrow Wilson’s maternal grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Woodrow, and his family boarded a ship in Liverpool bound for New York City.

Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, by Christopher Cox (Simon & Schuster, 640 pp., $30.99). In Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn, Christopher Cox describes uber-progressive Woodrow Wilson as ...

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband’s condition from the press and public.

President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke on Oct. 2, 1919, leaving him barely able to work. First Lady Edith Wilson moved quickly to shield her husband's condition from the press and public.