President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke during his second term in office. After October of 1919, sensing the need for discretion regarding the president’s health, First Lady Edith Wilson (Woodrow’s second wife) helped determine the importance materials and correspondence from the President of the United States. This made her the most powerful woman in Washington D.C. if no the world. Tabloids and newspapers conferred titles upon her such as “Ms. President” and “Presidentess.” This scenario would be given as an example of the need for the 25th Amendment to the Constitution should the need ever arise to remove the President of the United States from their duties due to incapacitation. He is the only president to have earned a doctoral degree, having received his PhD from Johns Hopkins University in history and government in 1886.

Though a well-known and self-avowed racist, President Wilson subscribed to the Presbyterian faith. His father was a Presbyterian minister. Wilson’s birthplace was a Presbyterian Manse (A house that a Presbyterian pastor resides in while pastor of a church). Before becoming governor of New Jersey, President Wilson served as President of Princeton University—a school traditionally associated with the Presbyterian denomination.

President Woodrow Wilson died at the age of 67. He is interred in a crypt at Washington National Cathedral. He is the only president of the United States buried within the District of Columbia.