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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856 – 1924) The 28th president of the United States, He changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I in 1917. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations and was awarded the 1919 Nobel Prize. He suffered a paralytic stroke which left him incapacitated for the rest of his second term in office, causing the worst crisis of presidential disability in American History. Eventually, the 25th Amendment, ratified in 1967, allowed for constitutional measures to deal with temporary or permanent incapacity of the President in office. Britannica