When on March 4, 1913, Woodrow Wilson entered the White House, the first Democratic president elected in twenty years, no one could have guessed the importance of the role which he was destined to play.... Even those who supported Wilson most whole-heartedly believed that his work would lie entirely within the field of domestic reform; little did they imagine that he would play a part in world affairs larger that had fallen to any citizen of the United States since the birth of the country . The new President was fifty-six years old. His background was primarily academic, a fact which, together with his family, and his Scotch-Irish ancestry, the Presbyterian tradition of his family, and his early years spent in the South, explains much in his character at the time when he entered upon the general political stage.... Keywords: Woodrow Wilson and the World War Vol. 48, Charles, Seymour, March 14th 1913, Democratic President, domestic, world affairs, country, academic, south, political,

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