Joseph Ruggles Wilson
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American theologian and father of Woodrow Wilson
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- Bachelors Classics Princeton University
- Masters Theology Princeton University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent 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 thirty-seven years.
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