Southern figures played vital roles during U.S. global expansion. President Woodrow Wilson, born in Virginia, led the nation through WWI. General John J. Pershing trained key forces in the region, while Southern soldiers and politicians strongly backed national defense and international policy.
People
Birth Death Origin Age (Death)
1828
1856
1858
1860
1862
1868
1871
1872
1874
1877
1877
1881
1882
1882
1884
1892
1900
Timeline
Category
Element
Year
South
1828
Birth of James Woodrow (Location: Carlisle, England, United Kingdom)
Birth of Ellen Louise Axson (Location: Savannah, Georgia, United States)
1862
Birth of Claude Augustus Swanson (Location: Swansonville, Virginia, United States (still remaining as an unincorporated community in Pittsylvania County))
1868
Birth of John Nance Garner (Location: Near Detroit, Texas, United States)
1871
Birth of Cordell Hull (Location: Near Birdsall, Tennessee, United States (birthplace was Olympus, in what was then Overton County and is now Pickett County))
Birth of Robert Houghwout Jackson (Location: Spring Creek Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States. The area is still around Spring Creek and is not an independent city)
1900
Birth of Claude Denson Pepper (Location: Near Dudleyville, Alabama, United States)
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