university teacher
Joseph Ruggles Wilson.
American theologian and father of Woodrow Wilson
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About Joseph Ruggles Wilson
Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent American Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served as its clerk for 37 years.
Everything about Joseph Ruggles Wilson →- Occupation
- university teacher
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- February 28, 1822
- Died
- January 21, 1903