Woodrow

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Meaning

A topographic surname from Middle English for a dweller in a row of houses near a wood.

(US) A male given name transferred from the surname, given in the 1910s in honor of President Woodrow Wilson.

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African Americans formed a large part of the city's population, numbering 23,929 people, or nearly one-third of the residents. citation President Woodrow Wilson opened the deep-water Port of Houston in 1914, seven years after digging began. Source: Internet

After graduating from Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, she attended George Washington University and later earned her bachelor’s degree from the University of Nebraska. Source: Internet

At the Paris Peace Conference of 1919, Lloyd George, American President Woodrow Wilson and French premier Georges Clemenceau made all the major decisions. Source: Internet

At the end of the Taft administration, and the start of the Woodrow Wilson administration, a Commission on Industrial Relations was established. Source: Internet

Bailey notes this was opposed by American public opinion, Bailey, Woodrow Wilson and the Great Betrayal (1945) pp. 295–96. Source: Internet

Bowman was the director of the American Geographical Society in 1914. citation Three years later in 1917, he was appointed to then President Woodrow Wilson's inquiry. Source: Internet

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