HISTORY: Today we want to share a little presidential trivia.

On this day in 1856, Woodrow Wilson was born in Staunton, Va.

Wilson was the 28th president of the United States. Wilson led the country into World War I and became the creator and leading advocate for the League of Nations.

In 1919, he received the Nobel Prize for Peace for his work with the League of Nations, despite the fact that the U.S. Senate rejected membership in the League.

During his second term, the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote.

According to history.com, Wilson is often ranked among the nation’s greatest presidents.

While in office, he pursued reforms including the establishment of the Federal Reserve and the Federal Trade Commission.

An attorney, Wilson also earned a Ph.D. in political science, making him 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.

He served as Princeton’s president from 1902 to 1910, when he was elected governor of New Jersey. In 1912, he was nominated by the Democratic party to run for president.

Some more neat facts from history.com: Wilson was the last U.S. president to travel to his inauguration ceremony in a horse-drawn carriage; he nominated the first Jewish person to the U.S. Supreme Court — Louis Brandeis, who was confirmed in 1916. Other accomplishments included child labor laws, en eight-hour day for railroad workers and government loans to farmers.

On Oct. 2, 1919, Wilson suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed, a condition hidden from the public. His wife, Edith Bolling Galt, “worked behind the scenes to fulfill a number of his administrative duties.”

He left office in March 1921, and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death on Feb. 3, 1924.

“He was buried in the Washington National Cathedral, the only president to be interred in the nation’s capital.”