American Freedom Museum: Fun Fact Friday
From the desk of Jan Hommel, Museum Director:
Q: Which U.S. President served as the President of Princeton University?
A: Woodrow Wilson. Woodrow Wilson had an esteemed career as an academic and university president before entering politics. Wilson graduated from Princeton University (then called the College of ) in 1879 and went on to attend law school at the University of Virginia. After briefly practicing law in Atlanta, Georgia, he received a Ph.D. in political science from Johns Hopkins University in 1886. Wilson remains the only U.S. president to earn a doctorate degree. He taught at Bryn Mawr College and Wesleyan College before being hired by Princeton in 1890 as a professor of jurisprudence and politics. From 1902 to 1910, Wilson was president of Princeton, where he developed a national reputation for his educational reform policies. (A&E鈥� History.com)
