Woodrow Wilson

President of the United States from 1913 to 1921

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Woodrow Wilson

Wilson in 1914

28th President of the United States
In office
March 4, 1913 – March 4, 1921
Vice President| Thomas R. Marshall
Preceded by| William Howard Taft
Succeeded by| Warren G. Harding
34th Governor of New Jersey
In office
January 17, 1911 – March 1, 1913
Preceded by| John Franklin Fort
Succeeded by| James Fairman Fielder
13th President of Princeton University
In office
October 25, 1902 – October 21, 1910
Preceded by| Francis Landey Patton
Succeeded by| John Grier Hibben
Personal details
Born|

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

(1856-12-28)December 28, 1856
Staunton, Virginia, U.S.
Died| February 3, 1924(1924-02-03) (aged 67)
Washington, D.C., U.S.
Resting place| Washington National Cathedral
Political party| Democratic
Spouses|

Ellen Axson

(m. 1885; died 1914)​

Edith Bolling

(m. 1915)​

Children|

* Margaret
* Jessie
* Eleanor

Parents|

* Joseph Ruggles Wilson
* Jessie Janet Woodrow

Alma mater|

* Princeton University (AB)
* Johns Hopkins University (PhD)

Occupation|

* Academic
* politician

Awards| Nobel Peace Prize (1919)
Signature|
Scientific career
Fields| Political science
Institutions| Princeton University
Johns Hopkins University
Thesis| Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics (1886)

Woodrow Wilson's voice

On democratic principles
Recorded August 7, 1912

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* 1912 presidential election
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* Women's suffrage
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* The New Freedom
* Silent Sentinels
* Federal Reserve Act
* Clayton Antitrust Act
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* United States occupation of Veracruz
* Pancho Villa Expedition
* Coalfield War
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* Zimmermann telegram
* Thrasher incident
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* Against Austria-Hungary
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* Espionage Act
* Fourteen Points
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* Treaty of Versailles
* League of Nations

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Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 - February 3, 1924) was the 28th president of the United States, serving from 1913 to 1921. He was the only Democrat to serve as president during the Progressive Era when Republicans dominated the presidency and legislative branches. As president, Wilson changed the nation's economic policies and led the United States into World War I. He was the leading architect of the League of Nations, and his stance on foreign policy came to be known as Wilsonianism.

Born in Staunton, Virginia, Wilson grew up in the Southern United States during the American Civil War and Reconstruction era. After earning a Ph.D. in history and political science from Johns Hopkins University, Wilson taught at several colleges prior to being appointed president of Princeton University, where he emerged as a prominent spokesman for progressivism in higher education. Wilson served as governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913, during which he broke with party bosses and won the passage of several progressive reforms. Wilson defeated incumbent Republican William Howard Taft and third-party nominee Theodore Roosevelt to easily win the 1912 presidential election, becoming the first Southerner to do so since 1848.

During his first year as president, Wilson authorized the widespread imposition of segregation inside the federal bureaucracy and his opposition to women's suffrage drew protests. His first term was largely devoted to pursuing passage of his progressive New Freedom domestic agenda. His first major priority was the Revenue Act of 1913, which began the modern income tax, and the Federal Reserve Act, which created the Federal Reserve System. At the outbreak of World War I in 1914, the U.S. declared neutrality as Wilson tried to negotiate a peace between the Allied and Central Powers. He narrowly won re-election in 1916 against Charles Evans Hughes. In April 1917, Wilson asked Congress for a declaration of war against Germany in response to its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare that sank American merchant ships. Wilson concentrated on diplomacy, issuing the Fourteen Points that the Allies and Germany accepted as a basis for post-war peace. He wanted the off-year elections of 1918 to be a referendum endorsing his policies, but instead, the Republicans took control of Congress. After the Allied victory in November 1918, Wilson attended the Paris Peace Conference. Wilson successfully advocated for the establishment of a multinational organization, the League of Nations, which was incorporated into the Treaty of Versailles that he signed, but back home he rejected a Republican compromise that would have allowed the Senate to ratify the Versailles Treaty and join the League.

Wilson had intended to seek a third term in office but had a stroke in October 1919 that left him incapacitated. His wife and his physician controlled Wilson, and no significant decisions were made. Meanwhile, his policies alienated German- and Irish-American Democrats and the Republicans won a landslide in the 1920 presidential election. Scholars have generally ranked Wilson in the upper tier of U.S. presidents, although he has been criticized for supporting racial segregation.

## Early life and education

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Main article: Early life and academic career of Woodrow Wilson

Wilson, c. mid-1870s

Thomas Woodrow Wilson was born to a family of Scotch-Irish and Scottish descent in Staunton, Virginia.[1] He was the third of four children and the first son of Joseph Ruggles Wilson and Jessie Janet Woodrow. Wilson's paternal grandparents had immigrated to the United States from Strabane, County Tyrone, Ireland, in 1807, and settled in Steubenville, Ohio. Wilson's paternal grandfather James Wilson published a pro-tariff and anti-slavery newspaper, The Western Herald and Gazette.[2] Wilson's maternal grandfather, the Reverend Thomas Woodrow, moved from Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, to Carlisle, Cumbria, England, before migrating to Chillicothe, Ohio, in the late 1830s.[3] Joseph met Jessie while she was attending a girl's academy in Steubenville, and the two married on June 7, 1849. Soon after the wedding, Joseph was ordained as a Presbyterian pastor and assigned to serve in Staunton.[4] His son Woodrow was born in the Manse, a house in the Staunton First Presbyterian Church where Joseph served. Before he was two years old, the family moved to Augusta, Georgia.[5]

Wilson's earliest memory of his early youth was of playing in his yard and standing near the front gate of the Augusta parsonage at the age of three, when he heard a passerby announce in disgust that Abraham Lincoln had been elected and that a war was coming.[5][6] Wilson was one of only two U.S. presidents to be a citizen of the Confederate States of America; the other was John Tyler, who served as the nation's tenth president from 1841 to 1845. Wilson's father identified with the Southern United States and was a staunch supporter of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.[7]

Wilson's father was one of the founders of the Southern Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS) following its 1861 split from the Northern Presbyterians. He became minister of the First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, and the family lived there until 1870.[8] From 1870 to 1874, Wilson lived in Columbia, South Carolina, where his father was a theology professor at the Columbia Theological Seminary.[9] In 1873, Wilson became a communicant member of the Columbia First Presbyterian Church; he remained a member throughout his life.[10]

Wilson attended Davidson College in Davidson, North Carolina in the 1873–74 school year but transferred as a freshman to the College of New Jersey, which is now Princeton University,[11] where he studied political philosophy and history, joined the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity, and was active in the Whig literary and debating society.[12] He was also elected secretary of the school's football association, president of the school's baseball association, and managing editor of the student newspaper.[13] In the hotly contested presidential election of 1876, Wilson supported the Democratic Party and its nominee, Samuel J. Tilden.[14]

After graduating from Princeton in 1879,[15] Wilson attended the University of Virginia School of Law in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he was involved in the Virginia Glee Club and served as president of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society.[16] Poor health forced Wilson to withdraw from law school, but he continued to study law on his own while living with his parents in Wilmington, North Carolina.[17] Wilson was admitted to the Georgia bar and made a brief attempt at establishing a law firm in Atlanta in 1882.[18] Though he found legal history and substantive jurisprudence interesting, he abhorred the day-to-day procedural aspects of the practice of law. After less than a year, Wilson abandoned his legal practice to pursue the study of political science and history.[19]

In late 1883, Wilson enrolled at the recently established Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for doctoral studies in history, political science, German, and other fields.[20][21] Wilson hoped to become a professor, writing that "a professorship was the only feasible place for me, the only place that would afford leisure for reading and for original work, the only strictly literary berth with an income attached."[22]

Wilson spent much of his time at Johns Hopkins University writing Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics, which grew out of a series of essays in which he examined the workings of the federal government.[23] In 1886, Wilson was awarded a Ph.D. in history and government from Johns Hopkins University,[24] making him the only U.S. president in the nation's history to possess a Ph.D.[25] In early 1885, Houghton Mifflin published Wilson's Congressional Government, which was well received, with one critic calling it "the best critical writing on the American constitution which has appeared since the 'Federalist' papers."[26]

## Marriage and family

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In September 1883, Wilson proposed to his future wife, Ellen Axson Wilson, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister in Savannah, Georgia.

In 1883, Wilson met and fell in love with Ellen Louise Axson.[27] He proposed marriage in September 1883; she accepted, but they agreed to postpone marriage while Wilson attended graduate school.[28] Axson graduated from Art Students League of New York, worked in portraiture, and received a medal for one of her works from the Exposition Universelle (1878) in Paris.[29] She agreed to sacrifice further independent artistic pursuits in order to marry Wilson in 1885.[30] Ellen learned German so she could help translate German-language political science publications relevant to Woodrow's research.[31]

In April 1886, the couple's first child, Margaret, was born. Their second child, Jessie, was born in August 1887.[32] Their third and final child, Eleanor, was born in October 1889.[33] In 1913, Jessie married Francis Bowes Sayre Sr., who later served as High Commissioner to the Philippines.[34] In 1914, their third child Eleanor married William Gibbs McAdoo, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson and later a U.S. Senator from California.[35]

## Academic career

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### Professor

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From 1885 to 1888, Wilson taught at Bryn Mawr College, a newly established women's college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, outside Philadelphia.[36] Wilson taught ancient Greek and Roman history, American history, political science, and other subjects. At the time, there were only 42 students at the college, nearly all of them too passive for his taste. M. Carey Thomas, the dean, was a staunch feminist, and Wilson clashed with her over his contract, resulting in a bitter dispute. In 1888, Wilson left Bryn Mawr College and was not given a farewell.[37]

Wilson accepted a position at Wesleyan University, an elite undergraduate college for men in Middletown, Connecticut. He taught graduate courses in political economy and Western history, coached Wesleyan's football team, and founded a debate team.[38][39]

In February 1890, with the help of friends, Wilson was appointed Chair of Jurisprudence and Political Economy at the College of New Jersey (the name at the time of Princeton University), at an annual salary of $3,000 (equivalent to $101,733 in 2023).[40] Wilson quickly earned a reputation at Princeton as a compelling speaker.[41] In 1896, Francis Landey Patton announced that College of New Jersey was being renamed Princeton University; an ambitious program of expansion for the university accompanied the name change.[42] In the 1896 presidential election, Wilson rejected Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan as too far to the left and instead supported the conservative "Gold Democrat" nominee, John M. Palmer.[43] Wilson's academic reputation continued to grow throughout the 1890s, and he turned down multiple positions elsewhere, including at Johns Hopkins University and the University of Virginia.[44]

At Princeton University, Wilson published several works of history and political science and was a regular contributor to Political Science Quarterly. Wilson's textbook, The State, was widely used in American college courses until the 1920s.[45] In The State, Wilson wrote that governments could legitimately promote the general welfare "by forbidding child labor, by supervising the sanitary conditions of factories, by limiting the employment of women in occupations hurtful to their health, by instituting official tests of the purity or the quality of goods sold, by limiting the hours of labor in certain trades, [and] by a hundred and one limitations of the power of unscrupulous or heartless men to out-do the scrupulous and merciful in trade or industry."[46] He also wrote that charity efforts should be removed from the private domain and "made the imperative legal duty of the whole," a position which, according to historian Robert M. Saunders, seemed to indicate that Wilson "was laying the groundwork for the modern welfare state."[47] His third book, Division and Reunion (1893),[48] became a standard university textbook for teaching mid- and late-19th century U.S. history.[49] Wilson had a considerable reputation as a historian and was an early member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[50] He was also an elected member of the American Philosophical Society in 1897.[51]

### President of Princeton University

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See also: History of Princeton University § Woodrow Wilson

Wilson in 1902 As president of Princeton University, Wilson lived in Prospect House on the university campus.

In June 1902, Princeton trustees promoted Professor Wilson to president, replacing Patton, whom the trustees perceived to be an inefficient administrator.[52] Wilson aspired, as he told alumni, "to transform thoughtless boys performing tasks into thinking men." He tried to raise admission standards and to replace the "gentleman's C" with serious study. Wilson instituted academic departments and a system of core requirements to emphasize the development of expertise. Students were to meet in groups of six under the guidance of teaching assistants known as preceptors.[53][page needed] To fund these new programs, Wilson undertook an ambitious and successful fundraising campaign, convincing alumni such as Moses Taylor Pyne and philanthropists such as Andrew Carnegie to donate to the school.[54] Wilson appointed the first Jew and the first Roman Catholic to the faculty, and helped liberate the board from domination by conservative Presbyterians.[55] He also worked to keep African Americans out of the school, even as other Ivy League schools were accepting small numbers of black people.[56][a]

Philosophy professor John Grier Hibben had known Wilson since they were undergraduates together. They became close friends. Indeed, when Wilson became president of Princeton in 1902 Hibben was his chief advisor. In 1912 Hibben stunned Wilson by taking the lead against Wilson's pet reform plan. They were permanently estranged, and Wilson was decisively defeated. In 1912, two years after Wilson left Princeton, Hibben became president of Princeton.[58][59]

Wilson's efforts to reform Princeton earned him national fame, but they also took a toll on his health.[60] In 1906, Wilson awoke to find himself blind in the left eye, the result of a blood clot and hypertension. Modern medical opinion surmises Wilson had had a stroke; he later was diagnosed, as his father had been, with hardening of the arteries. He began to exhibit his father's traits of impatience and intolerance, which would on occasion lead to errors of judgment.[61]

In 1906, while vacationing in Bermuda, Wilson met Mary Hulbert Peck, a socialite. According to biographer August Heckscher II, Wilson's friendship with Peck became the topic of frank discussion between Wilson and his wife, although Wilson historians have not conclusively established there was an affair.[62] Wilson also sent very personal letters to her,[63] which were later used against him by his adversaries.[64]

Having reorganized Princeton University's curriculum and established the preceptorial system, Wilson next attempted to curtail the influence of social elites at Princeton by abolishing the upper-class eating clubs.[65] He proposed moving the students into colleges, also known as quadrangles, but Wilson's plan was met with fierce opposition from Princeton alumni.[66] In October 1907, due to the intensity of alumni opposition, Princeton's board of trustees instructed Wilson to withdraw his plan for relocating student dormitories.[67] Late in his tenure, Wilson had a confrontation with Andrew Fleming West, dean of Princeton University's graduate school and his ally, ex-President Grover Cleveland, who was a Princeton trustee. Wilson wanted to integrate a proposed graduate school building into the core of the campus, but West preferred a more distant campus site. In 1909, Princeton's board accepted a gift made to the graduate school campaign subject to the graduate school being located off campus.[68]

Wilson became disenchanted with his job as Princeton University president due to the resistance to his recommendations, and he began considering a run for political office. Prior to the 1908 Democratic National Convention, Wilson dropped hints to some influential players in the Democratic Party of his interest in the ticket. While he had no real expectations of being placed on it, Wilson left instructions that he should not be offered the vice presidential nomination. Party regulars considered his ideas politically and geographically detached and fanciful, but the seeds of interest had been sown.[69] In 1956, McGeorge Bundy described Wilson's contribution to Princeton: "Wilson was right in his conviction that Princeton must be more than a wonderfully pleasant and decent home for nice young men; it has been more ever since his time."[70]

## Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913)

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Further information: 1910 New Jersey gubernatorial election

Wilson as New Jersey governor in 1911

By January 1910, Wilson had drawn the attention of James Smith Jr. and George Brinton McClellan Harvey, two leaders of New Jersey's Democratic Party, as a potential candidate in the upcoming gubernatorial election.[71] Having lost the last five gubernatorial elections, New Jersey Democratic leaders decided to throw their support behind Wilson, an untested and unconventional candidate. Party leaders believed that Wilson's academic reputation made him the ideal spokesman against trusts and corruption, but they also hoped his inexperience in governing would make him easy to influence.[72] Wilson agreed to accept the nomination if "it came to me unsought, unanimously, and without pledges to anybody about anything."[73]

At the state party convention, the bosses marshaled their forces and won the nomination for Wilson. On October 20, Wilson submitted his letter of resignation to Princeton University.[74] Wilson's campaign focused on his promise to be independent of party bosses. He quickly shed his professorial style for more emboldened speechmaking and presented himself as a full-fledged progressive.[75] Though Republican William Howard Taft had carried New Jersey in the 1908 presidential election by more than 82,000 votes, Wilson soundly defeated Republican gubernatorial nominee Vivian M. Lewis by a margin of more than 65,000 votes.[76] Democrats also took control of the general assembly in the 1910 elections, though the state senate remained in Republican hands.[77] After winning the election, Wilson appointed Joseph Patrick Tumulty as his private secretary, a position he held throughout Wilson's political career.[77]

Wilson began formulating his reformist agenda, intending to ignore the demands of his party machinery. Smith asked Wilson to endorse his bid for the U.S. Senate, but Wilson refused and instead endorsed Smith's opponent James Edgar Martine, who had won the Democratic primary. Martine's victory in the Senate election helped Wilson position himself as an independent force in the New Jersey Democratic Party.[78] By the time Wilson took office, New Jersey had gained a reputation for public corruption; the state was known as the "Mother of Trusts" because it allowed companies like Standard Oil to escape the antitrust laws of other states.[79] Wilson and his allies quickly won passage of the Geran bill, which undercut the power of the political bosses by requiring primaries for all elective offices and party officials. A corrupt practices law and a workmen's compensation statute that Wilson supported won passage shortly thereafter.[80] For his success in passing these laws during the first months of his gubernatorial term, Wilson won national and bipartisan recognition as a reformer and a leader of the Progressive movement.[81]

Republicans took control of the state assembly in early 1912, and Wilson spent much of the rest of his tenure vetoing bills.[82] He nonetheless won passage of laws that restricted labor by women and children and increased standards for factory working conditions.[83] A new State Board of Education was set up "with the power to conduct inspections and enforce standards, regulate districts' borrowing authority, and require special classes for students with handicaps."[84] Before leaving office Wilson oversaw the establishment of free dental clinics and enacted a "comprehensive and scientific" poor law[citation needed]. Trained nursing was standardized, while contract labor in all reformatories and prisons was abolished and an indeterminate sentence act passed.[85] A law was introduced that compelled all railroad companies "to pay their employees twice monthly," while regulation of the working hours, health, safety, employment, and age of people employed in mercantile establishments was carried out.[86] Shortly before leaving office, Wilson signed a series of antitrust laws known as the "Seven Sisters," as well as another law that removed the power to select juries from local sheriffs.[87]

## Presidential election of 1912

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Main article: 1912 United States presidential election

### Democratic nomination

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Main articles: 1912 Democratic Party presidential primaries and 1912 Democratic National Convention

Wilson became a prominent 1912 presidential contender immediately upon his election as Governor of New Jersey in 1910, and his clashes with state party bosses enhanced his reputation with the rising Progressive movement.[88] In addition to progressives, Wilson enjoyed the support of Princeton alumni such as Cyrus McCormick and Southerners such as Walter Hines Page, who believed that Wilson's status as a transplanted Southerner gave him broad appeal.[89] Though Wilson's shift to the left won the admiration of many, it also created enemies such as George Brinton McClellan Harvey, a former Wilson supporter who had close ties to Wall Street.[90] In July 1911, Wilson brought William Gibbs McAdoo and "Colonel" Edward M. House in to manage the campaign.[91] Prior to the 1912 Democratic National Convention, Wilson made a special effort to win the approval of three-time Democratic presidential nominee William Jennings Bryan, whose followers had largely dominated the Democratic Party since the 1896 presidential election.[92]

Speaker of the House Champ Clark of Missouri was viewed by many as the front-runner for the nomination, while House Majority Leader Oscar Underwood of Alabama also loomed as a challenger. Clark found support among the Bryan wing of the party, while Underwood appealed to the conservative Bourbon Democrats, especially in the South.[93] In the 1912 Democratic Party presidential primaries, Clark won several of the early contests, but Wilson finished strong with victories in Texas, the Northeast, and the Midwest.[94] On the first presidential ballot of the Democratic convention, Clark won a plurality of delegates; his support continued to grow after the New York Tammany Hall machine swung behind him on the tenth ballot.[95] Tammany's support backfired for Clark, as Bryan announced that he would not support any candidate that had Tammany's backing, and Clark began losing delegates on subsequent ballots.[96] Wilson gained the support of Roger Charles Sullivan and Thomas Taggart by promising the vice presidency to Governor Thomas R. Marshall of Indiana.[97] and several Southern delegations shifted their support from Underwood to Wilson. Wilson finally won two-thirds of the vote on the convention's 46th ballot, and Marshall became Wilson's running mate.[98]

### General election

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The 1912 presidential electoral college map

In the 1912 general election, Wilson faced two major opponents: one-term Republican incumbent William Howard Taft, and former Republican President Theodore Roosevelt, who ran a third party campaign as the "Bull Moose" Party nominee. The fourth candidate was Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party. Roosevelt had broken with his former party at the 1912 Republican National Convention after Taft narrowly won re-nomination, and the split in the Republican Party made Democrats hopeful that they could win the presidency for the first time since the 1892 presidential election.[99]

Roosevelt emerged as Wilson's main challenger, and Wilson and Roosevelt largely campaigned against each other despite sharing similarly progressive platforms that called for an interventionist central government.[100] Wilson directed campaign finance chairman Henry Morgenthau not to accept contributions from corporations and to prioritize smaller donations from the widest possible quarters of the public.[101] During the election campaign, Wilson asserted that it was the task of government "to make those adjustments of life which will put every man in a position to claim his normal rights as a living, human being."[102] With the help of legal scholar Louis Brandeis, he developed his New Freedom platform, focusing especially on breaking up trusts and lowering tariff rates.[103] Brandeis and Wilson rejected Roosevelt's proposal to establish a powerful bureaucracy charged with regulating large corporations, instead favoring the break-up of large corporations in order to create a level economic playing field.[104]

Wilson engaged in a spirited campaign, criss-crossing the country to deliver numerous speeches.[105] Ultimately, he took 42 percent of the popular vote and 435 of the 531 electoral votes.[106] Roosevelt won most of the remaining electoral votes and 27.4 percent of the popular vote, one of the strongest third party performances in U.S. history. Taft won 23.2 percent of the popular vote but just 8 electoral votes, while Debs won 6 percent of the popular vote. In the concurrent congressional elections, Democrats retained control of the House and won a majority in the Senate.[107] Wilson's victory made him the first Southerner to win a presidential election since the Civil War, the first Democratic president since Grover Cleveland left office in 1897,[108] and the first and only president to hold a Ph.D.[109]

## Presidency (1913–1921)

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Main article: Presidency of Woodrow Wilson

For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Woodrow Wilson presidency.

Wilson and his cabinet in 1916

After the election, Wilson chose William Jennings Bryan as Secretary of State, and Bryan offered advice on the remaining members of Wilson's cabinet.[110] William Gibbs McAdoo, a prominent Wilson supporter who married Wilson's daughter in 1914, became Secretary of the Treasury, and James Clark McReynolds, who had successfully prosecuted several prominent antitrust cases, was chosen as Attorney General.[111] Publisher Josephus Daniels, a party loyalist and prominent white supremacist from North Carolina,[112] was chosen to be Secretary of the Navy, while young New York attorney Franklin D. Roosevelt became Assistant Secretary of the Navy.[113] Wilson's chief of staff ("secretary") was Joseph Patrick Tumulty, who acted as a political buffer and intermediary with the press.[114] The most important foreign policy adviser and confidant was "Colonel" Edward M. House; Berg writes that, "in access and influence, [House] outranked everybody in Wilson's Cabinet."[115]

### New Freedom domestic agenda

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Wilson giving his first State of the Union address in 1913 before a joint session of Congress,[116] which initiated the modern practice of the State of the Union being given in person before all members of Congress[117]

Wilson introduced a comprehensive program of domestic legislation at the outset of his administration, something no president had ever done before.[118] He announced four major domestic priorities: the conservation of natural resources, banking reform, tariff reduction, and better access to raw materials for farmers by breaking up Western mining trusts.[119] Wilson introduced these proposals in April 1913 in a speech delivered to a joint session of Congress, becoming the first president since John Adams to address Congress in person.[120] Wilson's first two years in office largely focused on his domestic agenda. With trouble with Mexico and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, foreign affairs increasingly dominated his presidency.[121]

#### Tariff and tax legislation

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Democrats had long seen high tariff rates as equivalent to unfair taxes on consumers, and tariff reduction was their first priority.[122] He argued that the system of high tariffs "cuts us off from our proper part in the commerce of the world, violates the just principles of taxation, and makes the government a facile instrument in the hands of private interests."[123] By late May 1913, House Majority Leader Oscar Underwood had passed a bill in the House that cut the average tariff rate by 10 percent and imposed a tax on personal income above $4,000.[124] Underwood's bill represented the largest downward revision of the tariff since the Civil War. It aggressively cut rates for raw materials, goods deemed to be "necessities," and products produced domestically by trusts, but it retained higher tariff rates for luxury goods.[125]

Nevertheless, the passage of the tariff bill in the Senate was a challenge. Some Southern and Western Democrats wanted the continued protection of their wool and sugar industries, and Democrats had a narrower majority in the upper house.[122] Wilson met extensively with Democratic senators and appealed directly to the people through the press. After weeks of hearings and debate, Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan managed to unite Senate Democrats behind the bill.[124] The Senate voted 44 to 37 in favor of the bill, with only one Democrat voting against it and only one Republican voting for it. Wilson signed the Revenue Act of 1913 (called the Underwood Tariff) into law on October 3, 1913.[124] The Revenue Act of 1913 reduced tariffs and replaced the lost revenue with a federal income tax of one percent on incomes above $3,000, affecting the richest three percent of the population.[126] The policies of the Wilson administration had a durable impact on the composition of government revenue, which now primarily came from taxation rather than tariffs.[127]

#### Federal Reserve System

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See also: History of the Federal Reserve System

Map of Federal Reserve Districts with Federal Reserve banks (in black circles), District branches (in black squares), and the Federal Reserve's national headquarters in red

Wilson did not wait to complete the Revenue Act of 1913 before proceeding to the next item on his agenda—banking. By the time Wilson took office, countries like Britain and Germany had established government-run central banks, but the United States had not had a central bank since the Bank War of the 1830s.[128] In the aftermath of the nationwide financial crisis in 1907, there was general agreement to create some sort of central banking system to provide a more elastic currency and to coordinate responses to financial panics. Wilson sought a middle ground between progressives such as Bryan and conservative Republicans like Nelson Aldrich, who, as chairman of the National Monetary Commission, had put forward a plan for a central bank that would give private financial interests a large degree of control over the monetary system.[129] Wilson declared that the banking system must be "public not private, [and] must be vested in the government itself so that the banks must be the instruments, not the masters, of business."[130]

Democrats crafted a compromise plan in which private banks would control twelve regional Federal Reserve Banks, but a controlling interest in the system was placed in a central board filled with presidential appointees. Wilson convinced Democrats on the left that the new plan met their demands.[131] Finally the Senate voted 54–34 to approve the Federal Reserve Act.[132] The new system began operations in 1915, and it played a key role in financing the Allied and American war efforts in World War I.[133]

#### Antitrust legislation

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See also: History of United States antitrust law

A 1913 Clifford K. Berryman cartoon with Wilson addressing the economy by pumping it full of tariff, currency, and antitrust laws

Having passed major legislation lowering the tariff and reforming the banking structure, Wilson next sought antitrust legislation to enhance the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890.[134] The Sherman Antitrust Act barred any "contract, combination...or conspiracy, in restraint of trade," but had proved ineffective in preventing the rise of large business combinations known as trusts.[135] An elite group of businessmen dominated the boards of major banks and railroads, and they used their power to prevent competition by new companies.[136] With Wilson's support, Congressman Henry Clayton, Jr. introduced a bill that would ban several anti-competitive practices such as discriminatory pricing, tying, exclusive dealing, and interlocking directorates.[137]

As the difficulty of banning all anti-competitive practices via legislation became clear, Wilson came to back legislation that would create a new agency, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to investigate antitrust violations and enforce antitrust laws independently of the Justice Department. With bipartisan support, Congress passed the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, which incorporated Wilson's ideas regarding the FTC.[138] One month after signing the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914, Wilson signed the Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914, which built on the Sherman Act by defining and banning several anti-competitive practices.[139]

#### Labor and agriculture

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See also: Labor history of the United States

Wilson's 1913 official presidential portrait

Wilson thought a child labor law would probably be unconstitutional but reversed himself in 1916 with a close election approaching. In 1916, after intense campaigns by the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) and the National Consumers League, the Congress passed the Keating–Owen Act, making it illegal to ship goods in interstate commerce if they were made in factories employing children under specified ages. Southern Democrats were opposed but did not filibuster. Wilson endorsed the bill at the last minute under pressure from party leaders who stressed how popular the idea was, especially among the emerging class of women voters. He told Democratic Congressmen they needed to pass this law and also a workman's compensation law to satisfy the national progressive movement and to win the 1916 election against a reunited GOP. It was the first federal child labor law. However, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the law in Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918). Congress then passed a law taxing businesses that used child labor, but that was struck down by the Supreme Court in Bailey v. Drexel Furniture (1923). Child labor was finally ended in the 1930s.[140] He approved the goal of upgrading the harsh working conditions for merchant sailors and signed LaFollette's Seamen's Act of 1915.[141]

Wilson called on the Labor Department to mediate conflicts between labor and management. In 1914, Wilson dispatched soldiers to help bring an end to the Colorado Coalfield War, one of the deadliest labor disputes in American history.[142] In 1916 he pushed Congress to enact the eight-hour work day for railroad workers, which ended a major strike. It was "the boldest intervention in labor relations that any president had yet attempted."[143]

Wilson disliked the excessive government involvement in the Federal Farm Loan Act, which created twelve regional banks empowered to provide low-interest loans to farmers. Nevertheless, he needed the farm vote to survive the upcoming 1916 election, so he signed it.[144]

#### Territories and immigration

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See also: History of immigration to the United States

Wilson embraced the long-standing Democratic policy against owning colonies, and he worked for the gradual autonomy and ultimate independence of the Philippines, which had been acquired in 1898. Continuing the policy of his predecessors, Wilson increased self-governance on the islands by granting Filipinos greater control over the Philippine Legislature. The Jones Act of 1916 committed the United States to the eventual independence of the Philippines, and granted Filipinos further autonomy with the establishment of a Filipino Senate and House of Representatives, replacing the American-run Philippine Commission and Filipino-run Philippine Assembly, respectively.[145] In 1916, Wilson purchased by treaty the Danish West Indies, renamed as the United States Virgin Islands.[146]

Immigration from Europe declined significantly once World War I began and Wilson paid little attention to the issue during his presidency.[147] However, he looked favorably upon the "new immigrants" from southern and eastern Europe, and twice vetoed laws passed by Congress intended to restrict their entry, though the later veto was overridden.[148]

#### Judicial appointments

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Main article: Woodrow Wilson Supreme Court candidates

For a more comprehensive list, see List of federal judges appointed by Woodrow Wilson.

Wilson nominated three men to the United States Supreme Court, all of whom were confirmed by the U.S. Senate. In 1914, Wilson nominated sitting Attorney General James Clark McReynolds. Despite his credentials as an ardent trust buster,[149] McReynolds became a staple of the court's conservative bloc until his retirement in 1941.[150] According to Berg, Wilson considered appointing McReynolds one of his biggest mistakes in office.[151] In 1916, Wilson nominated Louis Brandeis to the Court, setting off a major debate in the Senate over Brandeis's progressive ideology and his religion; Brandeis was the first Jewish nominee to the Supreme Court. Ultimately, Wilson was able to convince Senate Democrats to vote to confirm Brandeis, who served on the court until 1939. In contrast to McReynolds, Brandeis became one of the court's leading progressive voices.[152] When a second vacancy arose in 1916, Wilson appointed progressive lawyer John Hessin Clarke. Clarke was confirmed by the Senate and served on the Court until retiring in 1922.[153]

### First-term foreign policy

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Main article: Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration

#### Latin America

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See also: United States involvement in the Mexican Revolution and Banana Wars

A cartoon depicting Uncle Sam entering Mexico in 1916 to punish Pancho Villa with Uncle Sam saying, "I've had about enough of this."

Wilson sought to move away from the foreign policy of his predecessors, which he viewed as imperialistic, and he rejected Taft's Dollar Diplomacy.[154] Nonetheless, he frequently intervened in Latin America, saying in 1913, "I am going to teach the South American republics to elect good men."[155] The 1914 Bryan–Chamorro Treaty converted Nicaragua into a de facto protectorate, and the U.S. stationed soldiers there throughout Wilson's presidency. The Wilson administration sent troops to occupy the Dominican Republic and intervene in Haiti, and Wilson also authorized military interventions in Cuba, Panama, and Honduras.[156]

Wilson took office during the Mexican Revolution, which had begun in 1911 after liberals overthrew the military dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Shortly before Wilson took office, conservatives retook power through a coup led by Victoriano Huerta.[157] Wilson rejected the legitimacy of Huerta's "government of butchers" and demanded Mexico hold democratic elections.[158] After Huerta arrested U.S. Navy personnel who had accidentally landed in a restricted zone near the northern port town of Tampico, Wilson dispatched the Navy to occupy the Mexican city of Veracruz. A strong backlash against the American intervention among Mexicans of all political affiliations convinced Wilson to abandon his plans to expand the U.S. military intervention, but the intervention nonetheless helped convince Huerta to flee from the country.[159] A group led by Venustiano Carranza established control over a significant proportion of Mexico, and Wilson recognized Carranza's government in October 1915.[160]

Carranza continued to face various opponents within Mexico, including Pancho Villa, whom Wilson had earlier described as "a sort of Robin Hood."[160] In early 1916, Pancho Villa raided the village of Columbus, New Mexico, killing or wounding dozens of Americans and causing an enormous nationwide American demand for his punishment. Wilson ordered General John J. Pershing and 4,000 troops across the border to capture Villa. By April, Pershing's forces had broken up and dispersed Villa's bands, but Villa remained on the loose and Pershing continued his pursuit deep into Mexico. Carranza then pivoted against the Americans and accused them of a punitive invasion, leading to several incidents that nearly led to war. Tensions subsided after Mexico agreed to release several American prisoners, and bilateral negotiations began under the auspices of the Mexican-American Joint High Commission. Eager to withdraw from Mexico due to tensions in Europe, Wilson ordered Pershing to withdraw, and the last American soldiers left in February 1917.[161]

#### Neutrality in World War I

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A cartoon of Wilson and "Jingo", the American war dog, ridiculing jingoes baying for war

World War I broke out in July 1914, pitting the Central Powers (Germany, Austria-Hungary, the Ottoman Empire, and later Bulgaria) against the Allied Powers (Britain, France, Russia, Serbia, and several other countries). The war fell into a long stalemate with very high casualties on the Western Front in France. Both sides rejected offers by Wilson and the House to mediate an end to the conflict.[162] From 1914 until early 1917, Wilson's primary foreign policy objectives were to keep the United States out of the war in Europe and to broker a peace agreement.[163] He insisted that all U.S. government actions be neutral, stating that Americans "must be impartial in thought as well as in action, must put a curb upon our sentiments as well as upon every transaction that might be construed as a preference of one party to the struggle before another."[164] As a neutral power, the U.S. insisted on its right to trade with both sides. However the powerful British Royal Navy imposed a blockade of Germany. To appease Washington, London agreed to continue purchasing certain major American commodities such as cotton at pre-war prices, and in the event an American merchant vessel was caught with contraband, the Royal Navy was under orders to buy the entire cargo and release the vessel.[165] Wilson passively accepted this situation.[166]

In response to the British blockade, Germany launched a submarine campaign against merchant vessels in the seas surrounding the British Isles.[167] In early 1915, the Germans sank three American ships; Wilson took the view, based on some reasonable evidence, that these incidents were accidental, and a settlement of claims could be postponed until the end of the war.[168] In May 1915, a German submarine torpedoed the British ocean liner RMS Lusitania, killing 1,198 passengers, including 128 American citizens.[169] Wilson publicly responded by saying, "there is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight. There is such a thing as a nation being so right that it does not need to convince others by force that it is right".[170] Wilson demanded that the German government "take immediate steps to prevent the recurrence" of incidents like the sinking of the Lusitania. In response, Bryan, who believed that Wilson had placed the defense of American trade rights above neutrality, resigned from the Cabinet.[171] In March 1916, the SS Sussex, an unarmed ferry under the French flag, was torpedoed in the English Channel and four Americans were counted among the dead. Wilson extracted from Germany a pledge to constrain submarine warfare to the rules of cruiser warfare, which represented a major diplomatic concession.[172]

Interventionists, led by Theodore Roosevelt, wanted war with Germany and attacked Wilson's refusal to build up the army in anticipation of war.[173] After the sinking of the Lusitania and the resignation of Bryan, Wilson publicly committed himself to what became known as the "preparedness movement", and began to build up the army and the navy.[174] In June 1916, Congress passed the National Defense Act of 1916, which established the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and expanded the National Guard.[175] Later in the year, Congress passed the Naval Act of 1916, which provided for a major expansion of the navy.[176]

### Remarriage

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The Wilson family in 1912

The health of Ellen Wilson declined after her husband entered office, and doctors diagnosed her with Bright's disease in July 1914.[177] She died on August 6, 1914.[178] President Wilson was deeply affected by the loss, falling into depression.[179] On March 18, 1915, Wilson met Edith Bolling Galt at a White House tea.[180] Galt was a widow and jeweler who was also from the South. After several meetings, Wilson fell in love with her, and he proposed marriage to her in May 1915. Galt initially rebuffed him, but Wilson was undeterred and continued the courtship.[181] Edith gradually warmed to the relationship, and they became engaged in September 1915.[182] They were married on December 18, 1915. Woodrow Wilson joined John Tyler and Grover Cleveland as the only presidents to marry while in office.[183]

### Presidential election of 1916

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Main article: 1916 United States presidential election

Wilson accepts the Democratic Party nomination for president in 1916 The 1916 electoral college map

Wilson was renominated at the 1916 Democratic National Convention without opposition.[184] In an effort to win progressive voters, Wilson called for legislation providing for an eight-hour day and six-day workweek, health and safety measures, the prohibition of child labor, and safeguards for female workers. He also favored a minimum wage for all work performed by and for the federal government.[185] The Democrats also campaigned on the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War," and warned that a Republican victory would mean war with Germany.[186] Hoping to reunify the progressive and conservative wings of the party, the 1916 Republican National Convention nominated Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes for president; as a jurist, he had been completely out of politics by 1912. Though Republicans attacked Wilson's foreign policy on various grounds, domestic affairs generally dominated the campaign. Republicans campaigned against Wilson's New Freedom policies, especially tariff reduction, the new income taxes, and the Adamson Act, which they derided as "class legislation."[187]

The election was close and the outcome was in doubt with Hughes ahead in the East, and Wilson in the South and West. The decision came down to California. On November 10, California certified that Wilson had won the state by 3,806 votes, giving him a majority of the electoral vote. Nationally, Wilson won 277 electoral votes and 49.2 percent of the popular vote, while Hughes won 254 electoral votes and 46.1 percent of the popular vote.[188] Wilson was able to win by picking up many votes that had gone to Roosevelt or Debs in 1912.[189] He swept the Solid South and won all but one Western state, while Hughes won most of the Northeastern and Midwestern states.[190] Wilson's re-election made him the first Democrat since Andrew Jackson (in 1832) to win two consecutive terms. The Democrats kept control of Congress.[191]

### Entering World War I

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Main article: American entry into World War I

Further information: United States in World War I and Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration

In January 1917, the German Empire initiated a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare against ships in the seas around the British Isles. German leaders knew that the policy would likely provoke U.S. entrance into the war, but they hoped to defeat the Allied Powers before the U.S. could fully mobilize.[192] In late February, the U.S. public learned of the Zimmermann Telegram, a secret diplomatic communication in which Germany sought to convince Mexico to join it in a war against the United States.[193] After a series of attacks on American ships, Wilson held a Cabinet meeting on March 20; all Cabinet members agreed that the time had come for the United States to enter the war.[194] The Cabinet members believed that Germany was engaged in a commercial war against the United States, and that the United States had to respond with a formal declaration of war.[195]

On April 2, 1917, Wilson addressed the U.S. Congress, asking for a declaration of war against Germany, saying that Germany was engaged in "nothing less than war against the government and people of the United States." He requested a military draft to raise the army, increased taxes to pay for military expenses, loans to Allied governments, and increased industrial and agricultural production.[196] He stated, "we have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest, no dominion... no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely make. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of the nations can make them."[197] The declaration of war by the United States against Germany passed Congress with strong bipartisan majorities on April 6, 1917.[198] The United States later declared war against Austria-Hungary in December 1917.[199]

With the U.S. entrance into the war, Wilson and Secretary of War Newton D. Baker launched an expansion of the army, with the goal of creating a 300,000-member Regular Army, a 440,000-member National Guard, and a 500,000-member conscripted force known as the "National Army." Despite some resistance to conscription and to the commitment of American soldiers abroad, large majorities of both houses of Congress voted to impose conscription with the Selective Service Act of 1917. Seeking to avoid the draft riots of the Civil War, the bill established local draft boards that were charged with determining who should be drafted. By the end of the war, nearly 3 million men had been drafted.[200] The navy also saw tremendous expansion, and Allied shipping losses dropped substantially due to U.S. contributions and a new emphasis on the convoy system.[201]

Map of the great powers and their empires in 1914

#### The Fourteen Points

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Main article: Fourteen Points

Wilson sought the establishment of "an organized common peace" that would help prevent future conflicts. In this goal, he was opposed not just by the Central Powers, but also the other Allied Powers, who, to various degrees, sought to win concessions and to impose a punitive peace agreement on the Central Powers.[202] On January 8, 1918, Wilson delivered a speech, known as the Fourteen Points, wherein he articulated his administration's long term war objectives. Wilson called for the establishment of an association of nations to guarantee the independence and territorial integrity of all nations—a League of Nations.[203] Other points included the evacuation of occupied territory, the establishment of an independent Poland, and self-determination for the peoples of Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire.[204]

#### Course of the war

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Main article: World War I

Under the command of General Pershing, the American Expeditionary Forces first arrived in France in mid-1917.[205] Wilson and Pershing rejected the British and French proposal that American soldiers integrate into existing Allied units, giving the United States more freedom of action but requiring for the creation of new organizations and supply chains.[206] Russia exited the war after signing the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March 1918, allowing Germany to shift soldiers from the Eastern Front of the war.[207] Hoping to break Allied lines before American soldiers could arrive in full force, the Germans launched the Spring Offensive on the Western Front. Both sides suffered hundreds of thousands of casualties as the Germans forced back the British and French, but Germany was unable to capture the French capital of Paris.[208] There were only 175,000 American soldiers in Europe at the end of 1917, but by mid-1918 10,000 Americans were arriving in Europe per day.[207] With American forces having joined in the fight, the Allies defeated Germany in the Battle of Belleau Wood and the Battle of Château-Thierry. Beginning in August, the Allies launched the Hundred Days Offensive, pushing back the exhausted German army.[209] Meanwhile, French and British leaders convinced Wilson to send a few thousand American soldiers to join the Allied intervention in Russia, which was in the midst of a civil war between the Communist Bolsheviks and the White movement.[210]

By the end of September 1918, the German leadership no longer believed it could win the war, and Kaiser Wilhelm II appointed a new government led by Prince Maximilian of Baden.[211] Baden immediately sought an armistice with Wilson, with the Fourteen Points to serve as the basis of the German surrender.[212] House procured agreement to the armistice from France and Britain, but only after threatening to conclude a unilateral armistice without them.[213] Germany and the Allied Powers brought an end to the fighting with the signing of the Armistice of 11 November 1918.[214] Austria-Hungary had signed the Armistice of Villa Giusti eight days earlier, while the Ottoman Empire had signed the Armistice of Mudros in October. By the end of the war, 116,000 American servicemen had died, and another 200,000 had been wounded.[215]

#### Home front

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Main article: United States home front during World War I

A banner reading, "Food will win the war—don't waste it", in front of city hall in New Orleans in October 1918 Women workers in an ordnance shop in Pennsylvania, in 1918

With the American entrance into World War I in April 1917, Wilson became a war-time president. The War Industries Board, headed by Bernard Baruch, was established to set U.S. war manufacturing policies and goals. Future President Herbert Hoover led the Food Administration; the Federal Fuel Administration, run by Harry Augustus Garfield, introduced daylight saving time and rationed fuel supplies; William McAdoo was in charge of war bond efforts; Vance C. McCormick headed the War Trade Board. These men, known collectively as the "war cabinet", met weekly with Wilson.[216] Because he was heavily focused on foreign policy during World War I, Wilson delegated a large degree of authority over the home front to his subordinates.[217] In the midst of the war, the federal budget soared from $1 billion in fiscal year 1916 to $19 billion in fiscal year 1919.[218] In addition to spending on its own military build-up, Wall Street in 1914–1916 and the Treasury in 1917–1918 provided large loans to the Allied countries, thus financing the war effort of Britain and France.[219]

Seeking to avoid the high levels of inflation that had accompanied the heavy borrowing of the American Civil War, the Wilson administration raised taxes during the war.[220] The War Revenue Act of 1917 and the Revenue Act of 1918 raised the top tax rate to 77 percent, greatly increased the number of Americans paying the income tax, and levied an excess profits tax on businesses and individuals.[221] Despite these tax acts, the United States was forced to borrow heavily to finance the war effort. Treasury Secretary McAdoo authorized the issuing of low-interest war bonds and, to attract investors, made interest on the bonds tax-free. The bonds proved so popular among investors that many borrowed money in order to buy more bonds. The purchase of bonds, along with other war-time pressures, resulted in rising inflation, though this inflation was partly matched by rising wages and profits.[218]

To shape public opinion, Wilson in 1917 established the first modern propaganda office, the Committee on Public Information (CPI), headed by George Creel.[222]

Wilson called on voters in the 1918 off-year elections to elect Democrats as an endorsement of his policies. However the Republicans won over alienated German-Americans and took control.[223] Wilson refused to coordinate or compromise with the new leaders of House and Senate—Senator Henry Cabot Lodge became his nemesis.[224]

In November 1919, Wilson's Attorney General, A. Mitchell Palmer, began to target anarchists, Industrial Workers of the World members, and other antiwar groups in what became known as the Palmer Raids. Thousands were arrested for incitement to violence, espionage, or sedition. Wilson by that point was incapacitated and was not told what was happening.[225]

### Aftermath of World War I

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Further information: Foreign policy of the Woodrow Wilson administration

Several new European states were established at the Paris Peace Conference.

#### Paris Peace Conference

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Main articles: Aftermath of World War I and Paris Peace Conference (1919–1920)

The "Big Four" at the Paris Peace Conference on May 27, 1919, following the end of World War I with Wilson standing next to Georges Clemenceau on the right Vast throngs of Italians in Milan gather to welcome Wilson.

After the signing of the armistice, Wilson traveled to Europe to lead the American delegation to the Paris Peace Conference, thereby becoming the first incumbent president to travel to Europe.[226] Although Republicans now controlled Congress, Wilson shut them out. Senate Republicans and even some Senate Democrats complained about their lack of representation in the delegation. It consisted of Wilson, Colonel House,[b] Secretary of State Robert Lansing, General Tasker H. Bliss, and diplomat Henry White, who was the only Republican, and he was not an active partisan.[228] Save for a two-week return to the United States, Wilson remained in Europe for six months, where he focused on reaching a peace treaty to formally end the war. Wilson, British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, and Italian Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando made up the "Big Four", the Allied leaders with the most influence at the Paris Peace Conference.[229] Wilson had an illness during the conference, and some experts believe the Spanish flu was the cause.[230]

Unlike other Allied leaders, Wilson did not seek territorial gains or material concessions from the Central Powers. His chief goal was the establishment of the League of Nations, which he saw as the "keystone of the whole programme".[231] Wilson himself presided over the committee that drafted the Covenant of the League of Nations.[232] The covenant bound members to respect freedom of religion, treat racial minorities fairly, and peacefully settle disputes through organizations like the Permanent Court of International Justice. Article X of the League Covenant required all nations to defend League members against external aggression.[233] Japan proposed that the conference endorse a Racial Equality Proposal; Wilson was indifferent to the issue, but acceded to strong opposition from Britain's dominions such as Australia and South Africa.[234] The Covenant of the League of Nations was incorporated into the conference's Treaty of Versailles, which ended the war with Germany, and into other peace treaties.[235]

Aside from the establishment the League of Nations and solidifying a lasting world peace, Wilson's other main goal at the Paris Peace Conference was that self-determination be the primary basis used for drawing new international borders.[236] However, in pursuit of his League of Nations, Wilson conceded several points to the other powers present at the conference. Germany was required to permanently cede territory, pay war reparations, relinquish all of her overseas colonies and dependencies and submit to military occupation in the Rhineland. Additionally, a clause in the treaty specifically named Germany as responsible for the war. Wilson agreed to allowing the Allied European powers and Japan to essentially expand their empires by establishing de facto colonies in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia out the former German and Ottoman Empires; these territorial awards to the victorious countries were thinly disguised as "League of Nations mandates". The Japanese acquisition of German interests in the Shandong Peninsula of China proved especially unpopular, as it undercut Wilson's promise of self-government. Wilson's hopes for achieving self-determination saw some success when the conference recognized multiple new and independent states created in Eastern Europe, including Albania, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and Yugoslavia.[236][237][238]

The conference finished negotiations in May 1919, at which point the new leaders of republican Germany viewed the treaty for the first time. Some German leaders favored repudiating the peace due to the harshness of the terms, though ultimately Germany signed the treaty on June 28, 1919.[239] Wilson was unable to convince the other Allied powers, France in particular, to temper the harshness of the settlement being leveled at the defeated Central Powers, especially Germany.[citation needed] For his efforts towards creating a lasting world peace, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize.[240]

#### Ratification debate and defeat

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Wilson returning from the Versailles Peace Conference on USS George Washington, as she steamed up New York Harbor on July 8, 1919; the Weimar National Assembly in Germany formally ratified the treaty the following day in a vote of 209 to 116.[241]

Ratification of the Treaty of Versailles required the support of two-thirds of the Senate, a difficult proposition given that Republicans held a narrow majority in the Senate after the 1918 U.S. elections.[242] Republicans were outraged by Wilson's failure to discuss the war or its aftermath with them, and an intensely partisan battle developed in the Senate. Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge supported a version of the treaty that required Wilson to compromise. Wilson refused.[242] Some Republicans, including former President Taft and former Secretary of State Elihu Root, favored ratification of the treaty with some modifications, and their public support gave Wilson some chance of winning the treaty's ratification.[242]

The debate over the treaty centered around a debate over the American role in the world community in the post-war era, and senators fell into three main groups. The first group, consisting of most Democrats, favored the treaty.[242] Fourteen senators, mostly Republicans, were known as the "irreconcilables" as they completely opposed U.S. entrance into the League of Nations. Some of these irreconcilables opposed the treaty for its failure to emphasize decolonization and disarmament, while others feared surrendering American freedom of action to an international organization.[243] The remaining group of senators, known as "reservationists", accepted the idea of the League but sought varying degrees of change to ensure the protection of American sovereignty and the right of Congress to decide on going to war.[243]

Article X of the League Covenant, which sought to create a system of collective security by requiring League members to protect one another against external aggression, seemed to force the U.S. to join in any war the League decided upon.[244] Wilson consistently refused to compromise, partly due to concerns about having to re-open negotiations with the other treaty signatories.[245] When Lodge was on the verge of building a two-thirds majority to ratify the Treaty with ten reservations, Wilson forced his supporters to vote Nay on March 19, 1920, thereby closing the issue. Cooper says that "nearly every League advocate" went along with Lodge, but their efforts "failed solely because Wilson admittedly rejected all reservations proposed in the Senate."[246] Thomas A. Bailey calls Wilson's action "the supreme act of infanticide".[247] He adds: "The treaty was slain in the house of its friends rather than in the house of its enemies. In the final analysis it was not the two-thirds rule, or the 'irreconcilables,' or Lodge, or the 'strong' and 'mild' reservationists, but Wilson and his docile following who delivered the fatal stab."[248]

#### Health collapses

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To bolster public support for ratification, Wilson barnstormed the Western states, but he returned to the White House in late September due to health problems.[249] On October 2, 1919, Wilson suffered a serious stroke, leaving him paralyzed on his left side, and with only partial vision in the right eye.[250][251] He was confined to bed for weeks and sequestered from everyone except his wife and his physician, Cary Grayson.[252] Bert E. Park, a neurosurgeon who examined Wilson's medical records after his death, writes that Wilson's illness affected his personality in various ways, making him prone to "disorders of emotion, impaired impulse control, and defective judgment."[253] Anxious to help the president recover, Tumulty, Grayson, and the First Lady determined what documents the president read and who was allowed to communicate with him. For her influence in the administration, some have described Edith Wilson as "the first female President of the United States."[254] Link states that by November 1919, Wilson's "recovery was only partial at best. His mind remained relatively clear; but he was physically enfeebled, and the disease had wrecked his emotional constitution and aggravated all his more unfortunate personal traits.[255]

Throughout late 1919, Wilson's inner circle concealed the severity of his health issues.[256] By February 1920, the president's true condition was publicly known. Many expressed qualms about Wilson's fitness for the presidency at a time when the League fight was reaching a climax, and domestic issues such as strikes, unemployment, inflation and the threat of Communism were ablaze. In mid-March 1920, Lodge and his Republicans formed a coalition with the pro-treaty Democrats to pass a treaty with reservations, but Wilson rejected this compromise and enough Democrats followed his lead to defeat ratification.[257] No one close to Wilson was willing to certify, as required by the Constitution, his "inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office."[258] Though some members of Congress encouraged Vice President Marshall to assert his claim to the presidency, Marshall never attempted to replace Wilson.[259] Wilson's lengthy period of incapacity while serving as president was nearly unprecedented; of the previous presidents, only James Garfield had been in a similar situation, but Garfield retained greater control of his mental faculties and faced relatively few pressing issues.[260]

#### Demobilization

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When the war ended the Wilson Administration dismantled the wartime boards and regulatory agencies.[261] Demobilization was chaotic and at times violent; four million soldiers were sent home with little money and few benefits. In 1919, strikes in major industries broke out, disrupting the economy.[262] The country experienced further turbulence as a series of race riots broke out in the summer of 1919.[263] In 1920, the economy plunged into a severe economic depression,[264] unemployment rose to 12 percent, and the price of agricultural products sharply declined.[265]

#### Red Scare and Palmer Raids

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Newspaper headlines on June 3, 1919, covering the bombings

Following the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and similar revolutionary attempts in Germany and Hungary, many Americans feared the possibility of terrorism in the United States. Such concerns were inflamed by the bombings in April 1919 when anarchists mailed 38 bombs to prominent Americans; one person was killed but most packages were intercepted. Nine more mail bombs were sent in June; injuring several people.[266] Fresh fears combined with a patriotic national mood sparking the "First Red Scare" in 1919. Attorney General Palmer from November 1919 to January 1920 launched the Palmer Raids to suppress radical organizations. Over 10,000 people were arrested and 556 aliens were deported, including Emma Goldman.[267] Palmer's activities met resistance from the courts and some senior administration officials. No one told Wilson what Palmer was doing.[268][269] Later in 1920 the Wall Street bombing on September 16, killed 40 and injured hundreds in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil up to that point. Anarchists took credit and promised more violence; they escaped capture.[270]

#### Prohibition and women's suffrage

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Prohibition developed as an unstoppable reform during World War I, but the Wilson administration played only a minor role.[271] The Eighteenth Amendment passed Congress and was ratified by the states in 1919. In October 1919, Wilson vetoed the Volstead Act, legislation designed to enforce Prohibition, but his veto was overridden by Congress.[272][273]

Wilson opposed women's suffrage in 1911 because he believed women lacked the public experience needed to be good voters. The actual evidence of how women voters behaved in the western states changed his mind, and he came to feel they could indeed be good voters. He did not speak publicly on the issue except to echo the Democratic Party position that suffrage was a state matter, primarily because of strong opposition in the white South to black voting rights.[274]

In a 1918 speech before Congress, Wilson for the first time backed a national right to vote: "We have made partners of the women in this war....Shall we admit them only to a partnership of suffering and sacrifice and toil and not to a partnership of privilege and right?"[275] The House passed a constitutional amendment providing for women's suffrage nationwide, but this stalled in the Senate. Wilson continually pressured the Senate to vote for the amendment, telling senators that its ratification was vital to winning the war.[276] The Senate finally approved it in June 1919, and the requisite number of states ratified the Nineteenth Amendment in August 1920.[277]

#### 1920 election

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Further information: 1920 United States presidential election

Republican presidential nominee Warren G. Harding defeated Democratic nominee James Cox in the 1920 United States presidential election.

Despite his medical incapacity, Wilson wanted to run for a third term. While the 1920 Democratic National Convention strongly endorsed Wilson's policies, Democratic leaders refused, nominating instead a ticket consisting of Governor James M. Cox and Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin D. Roosevelt.[278] The Republicans centered their campaign around opposition to Wilson's policies, with Senator Warren G. Harding promising a "return to normalcy". Wilson largely stayed out of the campaign, although he endorsed Cox and continued to advocate for U.S. membership in the League of Nations. Harding won the election in a landslide, capturing over 60% of the popular vote and winning every state outside of the South.[279] Wilson met with Harding for tea on his last day in office, March 3, 1921. Due to his health, Wilson was unable to attend the inauguration.[280]

On December 10, 1920, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize "for his role as founder of the League of Nations".[281][282] Wilson became the second sitting United States president after Theodore Roosevelt to become a Nobel Peace Laureate.[283]

## Final years and death (1921–1924)

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Funeral Procession of the late former President Woodrow Wilson arrived at the Washington National Cathedral The final resting place of Woodrow Wilson at Washington National Cathedral

After the end of his second term in 1921, Wilson and his wife moved from the White House to a townhouse in the Kalorama section of Washington, D.C.[284] He continued to follow politics as President Harding and the Republican Congress repudiated membership in the League of Nations, cut taxes, and raised tariffs.[285] In 1921, Wilson opened a law practice with former Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby. Wilson showed up the first day but never returned, and the practice was closed by the end of 1922. Wilson tried writing, and he produced a few short essays after enormous effort; they "marked a sad finish to a formerly great literary career."[286] He declined to write memoirs, but frequently met with Ray Stannard Baker, who wrote a three-volume biography of Wilson that was published in 1922.[287] In August 1923, Wilson attended the funeral of his successor, Warren Harding.[288] On November 10, 1923, Wilson made his last national address, delivering a short Armistice Day radio speech from the library of his home.[289][290]

Wilson's health did not markedly improve after leaving office,[291] declining rapidly in January 1924. He died on February 3, 1924, at the age of 67. The president and First Lady, Calvin and Grace Coolidge, attended as did former First Lady Florence Harding. First Lady Helen Herron Taft represented her husband, former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who was too ill to attend the service. Also among the 2,000 guests that were invited were 11 senators, many members of the House of Representatives, and several foreign dignitaries.[292] He was interred in Washington National Cathedral, being the only president whose final resting place lies within the nation's capital.[293]

## Race relations

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Further information: Woodrow Wilson and race

Quotation from Woodrow Wilson's History of the American People as reproduced in the film The Birth of a Nation

Wilson was born and raised in the U.S. South by parents who were committed supporters of both slavery and the Confederacy. Academically, Wilson was an apologist for slavery and the Redeemers, and one of the foremost promoters of the Lost Cause mythology.[294] Wilson was the first Southerner elected president since Zachary Taylor in 1848 and the only former subject of the Confederacy. Wilson's election was celebrated by southern segregationists. At Princeton, Wilson actively dissuaded the admission of African-Americans as students.[295] Several historians have spotlighted consistent examples in the public record of Wilson's overtly racist policies and the inclusion of segregationists in his Cabinet.[296][297][298] Other sources say Wilson defended segregation as "a rational, scientific policy" in private and describe him as a man who "loved to tell racist 'darky' jokes about black Americans."[299][300]

During Wilson's presidency, D. W. Griffith's pro-Ku Klux Klan film The Birth of a Nation (1915) was the first motion picture to be screened in the White House.[301] Though he was not initially critical of the movie, Wilson distanced himself from it as public backlash mounted and eventually released a statement condemning the film's message while denying he had been aware of it prior to the screening.[302][303]

### Segregating the federal bureaucracy

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By the 1910s, African Americans had become effectively shut out of elected office. Obtaining an executive appointment to a position within the federal bureaucracy was usually the only option for African-American statesmen. According to Berg, Wilson continued to appoint African-Americans to positions that had traditionally been filled by black people, overcoming opposition from many southern senators. Oswald Garrison Villard, who later became an opponent of his, initially thought that Wilson was not a bigot and supported progress for black people, and he was frustrated by southern opposition in the Senate, to which Wilson capitulated. In a conversation with Wilson, journalist John Palmer Gavit came to the realization that opposition to those views "would certainly precipitate a conflict which would put a complete stop to any legislative program."[304][305] Since the end of Reconstruction, both parties recognized certain appointments as unofficially reserved for qualified African-Americans. Wilson appointed a total of nine African-Americans to prominent positions in the federal bureaucracy, eight of whom were Republican carry-overs. For comparison, William Howard Taft was met with disdain and outrage from Republicans of both races for appointing thirty-one black officeholders, a record low for a Republican president. Upon taking office, Wilson fired all but two of the seventeen black supervisors in the federal bureaucracy appointed by Taft.[306][307]

Since 1863, the U.S. mission to Haiti and Santo Domingo was almost always led by an African-American diplomat regardless of what party the sitting president belonged to; Wilson ended this half-century-old tradition but continued to appoint black diplomats like George Washington Buckner,[308][309] as well as Joseph L. Johnson,[310][311] to head the mission to Liberia.[312] Since the end of Reconstruction, the federal bureaucracy had been possibly the only career path where African-Americans could experience some measure of equality,[313] and was the life blood and foundation of the black middle-class.[314]

Wilson's administration escalated the discriminatory hiring policies and segregation of government offices that had begun under Theodore Roosevelt and continued under Taft.[315] In Wilson's first month in office, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson urged the president to establish segregated government offices.[316] Wilson did not adopt Burleson's proposal but allowed Cabinet Secretaries discretion to segregate their respective departments.[317] By the end of 1913, many departments, including the Navy, Treasury, and Post Office, had segregated work spaces, restrooms, and cafeterias.[316] Many agencies used segregation as a pretext to adopt a whites-only employment policy, claiming they lacked facilities for black workers. In these instances, African-Americans employed prior to the Wilson administration were either offered early retirement, transferred, or simply fired.[318] Wilson did, at the suggestion of Oklahoma Senator Thomas Gore, nominate a Black Democrat from Muskogee, Oklahoma, Adam E. Patterson, for the position of Register of the Treasury in July 1913, but Patterson withdrew his name from consideration following opposition from Southern Democratic Senators James K. Vardaman and Benjamin Tillman. Wilson proceeded to nominate Gabe E. Parker, who was of mixed European and Choctaw descent, for the position instead, and did not nominate any other Black people for federal office afterwards.

Racial discrimination in federal hiring increased further when after 1914, the United States Civil Service Commission instituted a new policy requiring job applicants to submit a personal photo with their application.[319] As a federal enclave, Washington, D.C., had long offered African-Americans greater opportunities for employment and less glaring discrimination. In 1919, black veterans returning home to D.C. were shocked to discover Jim Crow laws had set in, many could not go back to the jobs they held prior to the war or even enter the same building they used to work in due to the color of their skin. Booker T. Washington described the situation: "I had never seen the colored people so discouraged and bitter as they are at the present time."[320]

### African Americans in the armed forces

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Further information: Racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces

A World War I draft card. The lower left corner could be removed for men of African descent to help keep the military segregated.

While segregation had been present in the Army prior to Wilson, its severity increased significantly under his election. During Wilson's first term, the Army and Navy refused to commission new black officers.[321] Black officers already serving experienced increased discrimination and were often forced out or discharged on dubious grounds.[322] Following the entry of the U.S. into World War I, the War Department drafted hundreds of thousands of black people into the Army, and draftees were paid equally regardless of race. Commissioning of African-Americans officers resumed but units remained segregated and most all-black units were led by white officers.[323][page needed]

Unlike the Army, the U.S. Navy was never formally segregated. Following Wilson's appointment of Josephus Daniels as Secretary of the Navy, a system of Jim Crow was swiftly implemented; with ships, training facilities, restrooms, and cafeterias all becoming segregated.[316] While Daniels significantly expanded opportunities for advancement and training available to white sailors, by the time the U.S. entered World War I, African-American sailors had been relegated almost entirely to mess and custodial duties, often assigned to act as servants for white officers.[324]

### Response to racial violence

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A 1917 political cartoon published in New York Evening Mail about the East St. Louis riots in 1917 with the caption reading, "Mr. President, why not make America safe for democracy?"

In response to the demand for industrial labor, the Great Migration of African Americans out of the South surged in 1917 and 1918. This migration sparked race riots, including the East St. Louis riots of 1917. In response to these riots, but only after much public outcry, Wilson asked Attorney General Thomas Watt Gregory if the federal government could intervene to "check these disgraceful outrages". On the advice of Gregory, Wilson did not take direct action against the riots.[325] In 1918, Wilson spoke out against lynching in the United States, stating: "I say plainly that every American who takes part in the action of mob or gives it any sort of continence is no true son of this great democracy but its betrayer, and ... [discredits] her by that single disloyalty to her standards of law and of rights."[326]

In 1919, another series of race riots occurred in Chicago, Omaha, and two dozen other major cities in the North. The federal government did not become involved, just as it had not become involved previously.[327]

## Legacy

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### Historical reputation

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A 1934 $100,000 gold certificate depicting Wilson U.S. postal stamps memorializing Wilson

Wilson is generally ranked by historians and political scientists as an above average president.[328] In the view of some historians, Wilson, more than any of his predecessors, took steps towards the creation of a strong federal government that would protect ordinary citizens against the overwhelming power of large corporations.[329] He is generally regarded as a key figure in the establishment of modern American liberalism, and a strong influence on future presidents such as Franklin D. Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson.[328] Cooper argues that in terms of impact and ambition, only the New Deal and the Great Society rival the domestic accomplishments of Wilson's presidency.[330] Many of Wilson's accomplishments, including the Federal Reserve, the Federal Trade Commission, the graduated income tax, and labor laws, continued to influence the United States long after Wilson's death.[328]

Many conservatives have attacked Wilson for his role in expanding the federal government.[331][332] In 2018, conservative columnist George Will wrote in The Washington Post that Theodore Roosevelt and Wilson were the "progenitors of today's imperial presidency".[333] Wilson's idealistic foreign policy, which came to be known as Wilsonianism, also cast a long shadow over American foreign policy, and Wilson's League of Nations influenced the development of the United Nations.[328] Saladin Ambar writes that Wilson was "the first statesman of world stature to speak out not only against European imperialism but against the newer form of economic domination sometimes described as 'informal imperialism.'"[334]

Notwithstanding his accomplishments in office, Wilson has received criticism for his record on race relations and civil liberties, for his interventions in Latin America, and for his failure to win ratification of the Treaty of Versailles.[335][334] Despite his southern roots and record at Princeton, Wilson became the first Democrat to receive widespread support from the African-American community in a presidential election.[336] Wilson's African-American supporters, many of whom had crossed party lines to vote for him in 1912, found themselves bitterly disappointed by the Wilson presidency, his decision to allow the imposition of Jim Crow within the federal bureaucracy in particular.[316]

Ross Kennedy writes that Wilson's support of segregation complied with predominant public opinion.[337] A. Scott Berg argues Wilson accepted segregation as part of a policy to "promote racial progress... by shocking the social system as little as possible."[338] The ultimate result of this policy was unprecedented levels of segregation within the federal bureaucracy and far fewer opportunities for employment and promotion being open to African-Americans than before.[339] Historian Kendrick Clements argues "Wilson had none of the crude, vicious racism of James K. Vardaman or Benjamin R. Tillman, but he was insensitive to African-American feelings and aspirations."[340] A 2021 study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics found that Wilson's segregation of the civil service increased the black-white earnings gap by 3.4–6.9 percentage points, as existing black civil servants were driven to lower-paid positions. Black civil servants who were exposed to Wilson's segregationist policies experienced a relative decline in home ownership rates, with suggestive evidence of lasting adverse effects for the descendants of those black civil servants.[341] In the wake of the Charleston church shooting, some individuals demanded the removal of Wilson's name from institutions affiliated with Princeton due to his stance on race.[342][343]

### Memorials

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For a more comprehensive list, see List of memorials to Woodrow Wilson.

Woodrow Wilson Monument in Prague, Czech Republic

The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library is located in Staunton, Virginia. The Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home in Augusta, Georgia, and the Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., are National Historic Landmarks. The Thomas Woodrow Wilson Boyhood Home in Columbia, South Carolina is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Shadow Lawn, the Summer White House for Wilson during his term in office, became part of Monmouth University in 1956, and was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1985. Prospect House in Princeton, New Jersey, Wilson's residence as president of Princeton University, has been named a National Historic Landmark. Wilson's presidential papers and his personal library are housed in the Library of Congress.[344]

The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., is named for Wilson, and the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University was named for Wilson until 2020 when Princeton's board of trustees voted to remove Wilson's name from the school.[345] The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a non-profit that provides grants for teaching fellowships. The Woodrow Wilson Foundation was established to honor Wilson's legacy but was terminated in 1993. One of Princeton University's six residential colleges was originally named Wilson College.[345] Numerous schools, including several high schools, bear Wilson's name. Several streets, including the Rambla Presidente Wilson in Montevideo, Uruguay, have been named for Wilson. The USS Woodrow Wilson, a Lafayette-class submarine, was named for Wilson. Other things named for Wilson include the Woodrow Wilson Bridge between Prince George's County, Maryland and Virginia, and the Palais Wilson, which serves as the temporary headquarters of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva until 2023 at the end of leasing.[346] Monuments to Wilson include the Woodrow Wilson Monument in Prague.[347]

### Popular culture

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In 1944, 20th Century Fox released Wilson, a biopic about Wilson starring Alexander Knox and directed by Henry King, considered an "idealistic" portrayal of Wilson. The movie was a personal passion project of studio president and producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who was a deep admirer of Wilson. The movie was praised by film critics and Wilson supporters,[348][349][350] and scored ten Academy Awards nominations, winning five.[351] Despite its popularity amongst elites, Wilson was a box-office bomb, incurring an almost $2 million loss for the studio.[352] The movie's failure is said to have had a deep and long lasting impact on Zanuck and no attempt has been made by any major studio since to create a motion picture based on the life of Wilson.[351]

## Works

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* Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, 1885.
* The State: Elements of Historical and Practical Politics. Boston: D.C. Heath, 1889.
* Division and Reunion, 1829–1889. New York, London, Longmans, Green, and Co., 1893.
* An old master, and other political essaysAn Old Master and Other Political Essays.] New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.
* Mere Literature and Other Essays. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1896.
* George Washington. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1897.
* The History of the American People. In five volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1901–02. Vol. 1 | Vol. 2 | Vol. 3 | Vol. 4 | Vol. 5
* Constitutional Government in the United States. New York: Columbia University Press, 1908.
* The Free Life: A Baccalaureate Address. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co., 1908.
* The New Freedom: A Call for the Emancipation of the Energies of a Generous People. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1913. —Speeches
* The Road Away from Revolution. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1923; reprint of short magazine article.
* The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Ray Stannard Baker and William E. Dodd (eds.) In six volumes. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1925–27.
* Study of public administration (Washington: Public Affairs Press, 1955)
* A Crossroads of Freedom: The 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. John Wells Davidson (ed.) New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1956.online
* The Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Arthur S. Link (ed.) In 69 volumes. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1967–1994.

## See also

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* Diplomatic history of World War I
* Electoral history of Woodrow Wilson
* List of presidents of the United States
* List of presidents of the United States by previous experience
* Progressive Era
* Woodrow Wilson Awards

## Notes

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1. ^ Although a handful of elite, Northern schools admitted African-American students at the time, most colleges refused to accept black students. Most African-American college students attended black colleges and universities such as Howard University.[57]
2. ^ House and Wilson fell out during the Paris Peace Conference, and House no longer played a role in the administration after June 1919.[227]

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## Further reading

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For a more comprehensive list, see Bibliography of Woodrow Wilson.

External videos

Q&A interview with A. Scott Berg on Wilson, September 8, 2013, C-SPAN ("Wilson". C-SPAN. September 8, 2013. Retrieved March 20, 2017.)
Booknotes interview with August Heckscher on Woodrow Wilson: A Biography, January 12, 1992, C-SPAN ("Woodrow Wilson: A Biography". C-SPAN. January 12, 1992. Retrieved March 20, 2017.)

### For students

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* Archer, Jules. World citizen: Woodrow Wilson (1967) online, for secondary schools
* Frith, Margaret. Who was Woodrow Wilson? (2015) online. for middle schools

### Historiography

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* Ambrosius, Lloyd. Wilsonianism: Woodrow Wilson and his legacy in American foreign relations (Springer, 2002). [ISBN missing]
* Cooper, John Milton, ed. Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008) [ISBN missing]
* Cooper, John Milton. "Making A Case for Wilson," in Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson (2008) ch 1. [ISBN missing]
* Janis, Mark Weston (2007). "How Wilsonian Was Woodrow Wilson?". Dartmouth Law Journal. 5 (1): 1–15.
* Kennedy, Ross A. (2001). "Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and American National Security". Diplomatic History. 25: 1–31. doi:10.1111/0145-2096.00247.
* Kennedy, Ross A., ed. (2013), A Companion to Woodrow Wilson
* Johnston, Robert D. (2002). "Re-Democratizing the Progressive Era: The Politics of Progressive Era Political Historiography". The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. 1: 68–92. doi:10.1017/s1537781400000104. S2CID 144085057.
* Saunders, Robert M. (1994). "History, Health and Herons: The Historiography of Woodrow Wilson's Personality and Decision-Making". Presidential Studies Quarterly. 24 (1): 57–77. JSTOR 27551193.
* Saunders, Robert M. In Search of Woodrow Wilson: Beliefs and Behavior (1998) [ISBN missing]
* Seltzer, Alan L. (1977). "Woodrow Wilson as 'Corporate-Liberal': Toward a Reconsideration of Left Revisionist Historiography". Western Political Quarterly. 30 (2): 183–212. doi:10.1177/106591297703000203. S2CID 154973227.
* Smith, Daniel M. (1965). "National Interest and American Intervention, 1917: An Historiographical Appraisal". The Journal of American History. 52 (1): 5–24. doi:10.2307/1901121. JSTOR 1901121.

## External links

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Woodrow Wilson at Wikipedia's sister projects

* Definitions from Wiktionary
* Media from Commons
* Quotations from Wikiquote
* Texts from Wikisource

### Official

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* About Woodrow Wilson – Wilson Center
* Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library & Museum
* Works by Woodrow Wilson at Project Gutenberg
* Works by or about Woodrow Wilson at the Internet Archive
* Works by Woodrow Wilson at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

* v
* t
* e

Woodrow Wilson

* 28th President of the United States (1913–1921)
* 34th Governor of New Jersey (1911–1913)
* 13th President of Princeton University (1902–1910)

Presidency
(timeline)|

* Transition
* 1913 inauguration
* 1917 inauguration
* Roosevelt desk
* Judicial appointments
* Supreme Court nominees
* Louis Brandeis Supreme Court nomination
* Cabinet
* 1919 Nobel Peace Prize
* 19th Amendment
* Silent Sentinels
* Woman Suffrage Procession
* State of the Union Address 1913
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917
* 1918
* 1920
* Harding transition

| Foreign policy|

* Wilsonianism
* Bryan–Chamorro Treaty (1914)
* Occupation of Haiti (1915–1934)
* Occupation of the Dominican Republic (1916–1924)
* Army Appropriations Act of 1916
* Council of National Defense
* Philippine Autonomy Act (1916)
* World War I
* 1917–1918; entry
* campaigns
* home front
* Committee on Public Information
* Four Minute Men
* Fourteen Points
* The Inquiry
* American Commission to Negotiate Peace
* Armistice of 11 November 1918
* Espionage Act of 1917
* Immigration Act of 1917
* Selective Service Act of 1917
* Immigration Act of 1918
* Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918
* National War Labor Board (1918)
* Sedition Act of 1918
* Wartime Measure Act of 1918
* Paris Peace Conference
* 1919–1920; Racial Equality Proposal
* Pueblo speech (1919)
* Treaty of Versailles
* 1919; Big Four
* League of Nations
* 1920; charter
* Wilsonian Armenia (1920)

|

New Freedom|

* Federal racial segregation
* Federal Reserve Act
* 1913; Federal Reserve
* Newlands Labor Act
* 1913; Board of Mediation and Conciliation
* Raker Act (1913)
* Revenue Act of 1913
* Federal income tax
* Rivers and Harbors Acts
* 1913
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* Sabath Act (1913)
* Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
* Cotton Futures Act of 1914
* Cutter Service Act (1914)
* Emergency Internal Revenue Tax Act (1914)
* Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914
* Federal Trade Commission
* Glacier National Park Act of 1914
* Legislative Reference Service (1914)
* Smith–Lever Act of 1914
* War Risk Insurance Act (1914)
* Locomotive Inspection Act (1915)
* National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (1915)
* Occupancy Permits Act (1915)
* Adamson Act (1916)
* Brush Disposal Act of 1916
* Cotton Futures Act of 1916
* Federal Aid Road Act of 1916
* Federal Employees' Compensation Act (1916)
* Federal Farm Loan Act
* 1916; Farm Credit System
* Federal Farm Loan Board
* Flag Day (1916)
* Fraudulent Advertising Act of 1916
* Keating–Owen Act (1916)
* National Park Service Organic Act
* 1916; National Park Service
* Revenue Act of 1916
* Rural Post Roads Act of 1916
* Smith Act (1916)
* Stock-Raising Homestead Act (1916)
* United States Grain Standards Act of 1916
* Warehouse Act of 1916
* Wildlife Game Refuges Act of 1916
* Flood Control Act of 1917
* Smith–Hughes Act
* 1917; U.S. Federal Board for Vocational Education
* United States Railroad Administration
* 1917; USRA standard
* War Revenue Act of 1917
* Revenue Act of 1918
* Acadia National Park Act of 1919
* Grand Canyon Park Act of 1919
* Red Summer (1919)
* Wheat Price Guarantee Act (1919)
* Esch–Cummins Act
* 1920; Railroad Labor Board
* Federal Power Act
* 1920; Federal Power Commission
* Merchant Marine Act of 1920
* Mineral Leasing Act of 1920

Life|

* Birthplace and Presidential Library
* papers and manuscripts
* Boyhood home in Georgia
* Boyhood home in South Carolina
* Princeton University president
* Summer White House (Harlakenden
* Shadow Lawn)
* Woodrow Wilson House
* Gravesite

Books|

* Congressional Government (1900)
* When a Man Comes to Himself (1901)
* The New Freedom (1913)

Elections|

* 1910 New Jersey gubernatorial election
* 1912 Democratic National Convention
* 1912 U.S. presidential election
* 1916 Democratic National Convention
* 1916 U.S. presidential election

Legacy
(memorials)|

* Bibliography
* Woodrow Wilson Awards
* Woodrow Wilson Foundation
* Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
* The Wilson Quarterly
* Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
* High schools
* Woodrow Wilson Junior College
* Celestial Sphere Woodrow Wilson Memorial
* Woodrow Wilson (Austin statue)
* Wilson Square (Warsaw)
* Woodrow Wilson Monument (Prague)
* Woodrow Wilson Bridge
* Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation
* U.S. Postage stamps
* United States one-hundred-thousand-dollar bill

Popular
culture|

* Wilson (1944 film)
* Profiles in Courage (1965 series)
* Backstairs at the White House (1979 miniseries)
* Woodrow Wilson and the Birth of the American Century (2002 documentary)
* Wilson (2013 book)
* Suffs (2022 musical)

Family|

* Ellen Axson Wilson (wife, 1885–1914, death)
* Edith Bolling Wilson (wife, 1915–1924)
* Margaret Wilson (daughter, acting first lady)
* Jessie Wilson Sayre (daughter)
* Eleanor Wilson McAdoo (daughter)
* Francis Sayre Jr. (grandson)
* Joseph Ruggles Wilson (father)
* James Wilson (grandfather)
* Helen Woodrow Bones (cousin, secretary)
* William McAdoo (son-in-law)

Related|

* Progressive Era
* Jefferson Literary and Debating Society
* Woodrow Wilson and race

* ← William Howard Taft
* Warren G. Harding →

* Category

Offices and distinctions

| Academic offices

Preceded by

Francis Landey Patton

|  President of Princeton University
1902–1910  | Succeeded by

John Aikman Stewart
acting

Party political offices
Preceded by

Frank S. Katzenbach

|  Democratic nominee for Governor of New Jersey
1910 | Succeeded by

James Fairman Fielder

Preceded by

William Jennings Bryan

|  Democratic nominee for President of the United States
1912, 1916 | Succeeded by

James M. Cox

Political offices
Preceded by

John Franklin Fort

|  Governor of New Jersey
1911–1913  | Succeeded by

James Fairman Fielder
acting

Preceded by

William Howard Taft

|  President of the United States
1913–1921  | Succeeded by

Warren G. Harding

Awards and achievements
Preceded by

International Committee of the Red Cross

|  Laureate of the Nobel Peace Prize
1919  | Succeeded by

Léon Bourgeois

Preceded by

Giulio Gatti-Casazza

|  Cover of Time
November 12, 1923  | Succeeded by

Erich Ludendorff

Articles related to Woodrow Wilson

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Presidents of the United States

Presidents and
presidencies|

1. George Washington (1789–1797)
2. John Adams (1797–1801)
3. Thomas Jefferson (1801–1809)
4. James Madison (1809–1817)
5. James Monroe (1817–1825)
6. John Quincy Adams (1825–1829)
7. Andrew Jackson (1829–1837)
8. Martin Van Buren (1837–1841)
9. William Henry Harrison (1841)
10. John Tyler (1841–1845)
11. James K. Polk (1845–1849)
12. Zachary Taylor (1849–1850)
13. Millard Fillmore (1850–1853)
14. Franklin Pierce (1853–1857)
15. James Buchanan (1857–1861)
16. Abraham Lincoln (1861–1865)
17. Andrew Johnson (1865–1869)
18. Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
19. Rutherford B. Hayes (1877–1881)
20. James A. Garfield (1881)
21. Chester A. Arthur (1881–1885)
22. Grover Cleveland (1885–1889)
23. Benjamin Harrison (1889–1893)
24. Grover Cleveland (1893–1897)
25. William McKinley (1897–1901)
26. Theodore Roosevelt (1901–1909)
27. William Howard Taft (1909–1913)
28. Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)
29. Warren G. Harding (1921–1923)
30. Calvin Coolidge (1923–1929)
31. Herbert Hoover (1929–1933)
32. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933–1945)
33. Harry S. Truman (1945–1953)
34. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953–1961)
35. John F. Kennedy (1961–1963)
36. Lyndon B. Johnson (1963–1969)
37. Richard Nixon (1969–1974)
38. Gerald Ford (1974–1977)
39. Jimmy Carter (1977–1981)
40. Ronald Reagan (1981–1989)
41. George H. W. Bush (1989–1993)
42. Bill Clinton (1993–2001)
43. George W. Bush (2001–2009)
44. Barack Obama (2009–2017)
45. Donald Trump (2017–2021)
46. Joe Biden (2021–present)

Presidency
timelines|

* Washington
* McKinley
* T. Roosevelt
* Taft
* Wilson
* Harding
* Coolidge
* Hoover
* F. D. Roosevelt
* Truman
* Eisenhower
* Kennedy
* L. B. Johnson
* Nixon
* Ford
* Carter
* Reagan
* G. H. W. Bush
* Clinton
* G. W. Bush
* Obama
* Trump
* Biden

* Category
* List

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Cabinet of President Woodrow Wilson (1913–1921)

Vice President|

* Thomas R. Marshall (1913–1921)

Secretary of State|

* William Jennings Bryan (1913–1915)
* Robert Lansing (1915–1920)
* Bainbridge Colby (1920–1921)

Secretary of the Treasury|

* William Gibbs McAdoo (1913–1918)
* Carter Glass (1918–1920)
* David F. Houston (1920–1921)

Secretary of War|

* Lindley Miller Garrison (1913–1916)
* Newton D. Baker (1916–1921)

Attorney General|

* James Clark McReynolds (1913–1914)
* Thomas Watt Gregory (1914–1919)
* A. Mitchell Palmer (1919–1921)

Postmaster General|

* Albert S. Burleson (1913–1921)

Secretary of the Navy|

* Josephus Daniels (1913–1921)

Secretary of the Interior|

* Franklin Knight Lane (1913–1920)
* John Barton Payne (1920–1921)

Secretary of Agriculture|

* David F. Houston (1913–1920)
* Edwin T. Meredith (1920–1921)

Secretary of Commerce|

* William C. Redfield (1913–1919)
* Joshua W. Alexander (1919–1921)

Secretary of Labor|

* William Bauchop Wilson (1913–1921)

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Democratic Party

* History
* Second Party System
* Third Party System
* Fourth Party System
* Fifth Party System
* Sixth Party System

National
conventions,
presidential
tickets,
and
presidential
primaries|

* 1828 (None): Jackson/Calhoun
* 1832 (Baltimore): Jackson/Van Buren
* 1835 (Baltimore): Van Buren/R. Johnson
* 1840 (Baltimore): Van Buren/None
* 1844 (Baltimore): Polk/Dallas
* 1848 (Baltimore): Cass/Butler
* 1852 (Baltimore): Pierce/King
* 1856 (Cincinnati): Buchanan/Breckinridge
* 1860 (Charleston/Baltimore): Douglas/H. Johnson (Breckinridge/Lane, SD)
* 1864 (Chicago): McClellan/Pendleton
* 1868 (New York): Seymour/Blair
* 1872 (Baltimore): Greeley/Brown
* 1876 (Saint Louis): Tilden/Hendricks
* 1880 (Cincinnati): Hancock/English
* 1884 (Chicago): Cleveland/Hendricks
* 1888 (Saint Louis): Cleveland/Thurman
* 1892 (Chicago): Cleveland/Stevenson I
* 1896 (Chicago): W. Bryan/Sewall
* 1900 (Kansas City): W. Bryan/Stevenson I
* 1904 (Saint Louis): Parker/H. Davis
* 1908 (Denver): W. Bryan/Kern
* 1912 (Baltimore): Wilson/Marshall
* primaries
* 1916 (Saint Louis): Wilson/Marshall
* primaries
* 1920 (San Francisco): Cox/Roosevelt
* primaries
* 1924 (New York): J. Davis/C. Bryan
* primaries
* 1928 (Houston): Smith/Robinson
* primaries
* 1932 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Garner
* primaries
* 1936 (Philadelphia): Roosevelt/Garner
* primaries
* 1940 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Wallace
* primaries
* 1944 (Chicago): Roosevelt/Truman
* primaries
* 1948 (Philadelphia): Truman/Barkley
* primaries
* 1952 (Chicago): Stevenson II/Sparkman
* primaries
* 1956 (Chicago): Stevenson II/Kefauver
* primaries
* 1960 (Los Angeles): Kennedy/L. Johnson
* primaries
* 1964 (Atlantic City): L. Johnson/Humphrey
* primaries
* 1968 (Chicago): Humphrey/Muskie
* primaries
* 1972 (Miami Beach): McGovern/(Eagleton, Shriver)
* primaries
* 1976 (New York): Carter/Mondale
* primaries
* 1980 (New York): Carter/Mondale
* primaries
* 1984 (San Francisco): Mondale/Ferraro
* primaries
* 1988 (Atlanta): Dukakis/Bentsen
* primaries
* 1992 (New York): B. Clinton/Gore
* primaries
* 1996 (Chicago): B. Clinton/Gore
* primaries
* 2000 (Los Angeles): Gore/Lieberman
* primaries
* 2004 (Boston): Kerry/Edwards
* primaries
* 2008 (Denver): Obama/Biden
* primaries
* 2012 (Charlotte): Obama/Biden
* primaries
* 2016 (Philadelphia): H. Clinton/Kaine
* primaries
* 2020 (Milwaukee/other locations): Biden/Harris
* primaries
* 2024 (Chicago): Harris/Walz
* primaries

Presidential
administrations|

* Jackson (1829–1837)
* Van Buren (1837–1841)
* Polk (1845–1849)
* Pierce (1853–1857)
* Buchanan (1857–1861)
* A. Johnson (1868–1869)
* Cleveland (1885–1889; 1893–1897)
* Wilson (1913–1921)
* Roosevelt (1933–1941; 1941–1945)
* Truman (1945–1953)
* Kennedy (1961–1963)
* L. B. Johnson (1963–1969)
* Carter (1977–1981)
* Clinton (1993–2001)
* Obama (2009–2017)
* Biden (2021–)

U.S. House
leaders,
Speakers,
and
Caucus
chairs|

* A. Stevenson (1827–1834)
* Bell (1834–1835)
* Polk (1835–1839)
* J. W. Jones (1843–1845)
* Davis (1845–1847)
* Cobb (1849–1851)
* Boyd (1851–1855)
* G. W. Jones (1855–1857)
* Orr (1857–1859)
* Houston (1859–1861)
* Niblack/Randall (1869–1871)
* Niblack (1873–1875)
* Kerr (1875–1876)
* Randall (1876–1881)
* Carlisle (1883–1889)
* Holman (1889–1891)
* Crisp (1891–1895)
* D. B. Culberson (1895–1897)
* Richardson (1897–1903)
* Williams (1903–1909)
* Clark (1909–1921)
* Kitchin (1921–1923)
* Garrett (1923–1929)
* Garner (1929–1933)
* Rainey (1933–1934)
* Byrns (1935–1936)
* Bankhead (1936–1940)
* Rayburn (1940–1961)
* McCormack (1962–1971)
* Albert (1971–1977)
* O'Neill (1977–1987)
* Wright (1987–1989)
* Foley (1989–1995)
* Gephardt (1995–2003)
* Pelosi (2003–2023)
* Jeffries (2023–)

U.S. Senate
leaders
and
Caucus
chairs|

* J. W. Stevenson (1873–1877)
* Wallace (1877–1881)
* Pendleton (1881–1885)
* Beck (1885–1890)
* Gorman (1890–1898)
* Turpie (1898–1899)
* J. K. Jones (1899–1903)
* Gorman (1903–1906)
* Blackburn (1906–1907)
* C. A. Culberson (1907–1909)
* Money (1909–1911)
* Martin (1911–1913)
* Kern (1913–1917)
* Martin (1917–1919)
* Hitchcock (1919–1920)
* Underwood (1920–1923)
* Robinson (1923–1937)
* Barkley (1937–1949)
* Lucas (1949–1951)
* McFarland (1951–1953)
* Johnson (1953–1961)
* Mansfield (1961–1977)
* Byrd (1977–1989)
* Mitchell (1989–1995)
* Daschle (1995–2005)
* Reid (2005–2017)
* Schumer (2017–)

Chairs of
the DNC|

* Hallett
* McLane
* Smalley
* Belmont
* Schell
* Hewitt
* Barnum
* Brice
* Harrity
* Jones
* Taggart
* Mack
* McCombs
* McCormick
* Cummings
* White
* Hull
* Shaver
* Raskob
* Farley
* Flynn
* Walker
* Hannegan
* McGrath
* Boyle
* McKinney
* Mitchell
* Butler
* Jackson
* Bailey
* O'Brien
* Harris
* O'Brien
* Westwood
* Strauss
* Curtis
* White
* Manatt
* Kirk
* Brown
* Wilhelm
* DeLee
* Dodd/Fowler
* Romer/Grossman
* Rendell/Andrew
* McAuliffe
* Dean
* Kaine
* Wasserman Schultz
* Perez
* Harrison

State and
territorial
parties|

* Alabama
* Alaska
* Arizona
* Arkansas
* California
* Colorado
* Connecticut
* Delaware
* Florida
* Georgia
* Hawaii
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* Illinois
* Indiana
* Iowa
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* Kentucky
* Louisiana
* Maine
* Maryland
* Massachusetts
* Michigan
* Minnesota
* Mississippi
* Missouri
* Montana
* Nebraska
* Nevada
* New Hampshire
* New Jersey
* New Mexico
* New York
* North Carolina
* North Dakota
* Ohio
* Oklahoma
* Oregon
* Pennsylvania
* Rhode Island
* South Carolina
* South Dakota
* Tennessee
* Texas
* Utah
* Vermont
* Virginia
* Washington
* West Virginia
* Wisconsin
* Wyoming
* American Samoa
* District of Columbia
* Guam
* Northern Mariana Islands
* Puerto Rico
* Virgin Islands
* Democrats Abroad

Affiliated
groups|

| Congress|

* Senate Caucus
* Policy Committee
* Steering and Outreach Committee
* House Caucus
* Factions
* Blue Dog Coalition
* Congressional Progressive Caucus
* Justice Democrats
* New Democrat Coalition
* Problem Solvers Caucus

|

Fundraising|

* Democratic Attorneys General Association
* Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee
* Democratic Governors Association
* Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee
* Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee
* National Conference of Democratic Mayors
* National Democratic Redistricting Committee

Sectional|

* College Democrats of America
* Democrats Abroad
* National Federation of Democratic Women
* Stonewall Democrats
* Stonewall Young Democrats
* Young Democrats of America
* High School Democrats of America

Related|

* Primaries
* Presidential candidates
* Debates
* Superdelegate
* 2005 chairmanship election
* 2017 chairmanship election
* 2006 House Caucus leadership election
* 2018 House Caucus leadership election
* Weekly Democratic Address

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Governors of New Jersey

Proprietary Province|

* Carteret

East New Jersey|

* Carteret
* Barclay
* Hamilton
* Basse
* Hamilton

West New Jersey|

* Byllynge
* Coxe
* Hamilton
* Basse
* Hamilton

Dominion of New England
(1688–89)|

* Andros

Royal governors|

* Viscount Cornbury
* Baron Lovelace
* Ingoldesby (Lt. Gov.)
* Hunter
* Burnet
* Montgomerie
* Morris (acting)
* Cosby
* Anderson (acting)
* Hamilton (acting)
* Lord De La Warr
* Morris
* Hamilton (acting)
* Reading (acting)
* Belcher
* Reading (acting)
* Pownall (Lt. Gov.)
* Reading (acting)
* Bernard
* Boone
* Hardy
* Franklin

State
(since 1776)|

* Livingston
* Paterson
* Howell
* Bloomfield
* Ogden
* W. S. Pennington
* M. Dickerson
* Williamson
* Vroom
* Southard
* Seeley
* Vroom
* P. Dickerson
* W. Pennington
* Haines
* Stratton
* Haines
* G. F. Fort
* Price
* Newell
* Olden
* Parker
* Ward
* Randolph
* Parker
* Bedle
* McClellan
* Ludlow
* Abbett
* Green
* Abbett
* Werts
* Griggs
* Voorhees
* F. Murphy
* Stokes
* J. F. Fort
* Wilson
* Fielder
* Edge
* Runyon*
* Edwards
* Silzer
* Moore
* Larson
* Moore
* Hoffman
* Moore
* Edison
* Edge
* Driscoll
* Meyner
* Hughes
* Cahill
* Byrne
* Kean
* Florio
* Whitman
* DiFrancesco*
* McGreevey
* Codey*
* Corzine
* Christie
* P. Murphy

* Under N.J.S.A. 52:15-5 (as amended in 2005), an acting governor serving for 180 continuous days or more is conferred the title of Governor.

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Princeton University

History
Trustees

Academics|

| Schools and
departments|

* Department of
* Economics
* Mathematics
* Physics
* Psychology
* Graduate School
* School of Architecture
* School of Engineering and Applied Science
* School of Public and International Affairs

|

Centers and
institutes|

* Bendheim Center for Finance
* Center for Information Technology Policy
* Julis-Rabinowitz Center for Public Policy and Finance
* James Madison Program
* Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination
* Princeton Neuroscience Institute
* Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies
* Office of Population Research

Laboratories|

* Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory
* Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory

Eating clubs|

* Eating clubs
* Cannon Club
* Cap and Gown Club
* Charter Club
* Cloister Inn
* Colonial Club
* Cottage Club
* Ivy Club
* Quadrangle Club
* Terrace Club
* Tiger Inn
* Tower Club
* former: Campus Club

Campus|

* Alexander Hall
* Art Museum
* Chapel
* Cleveland Tower
* Frist Campus Center
* Joseph Henry House
* Maclean House
* Lake Carnegie
* Library
* McCarter Theatre
* Nassau Hall
* Princeton Branch (The Dinky)
* Tiger Transit
* Prospect House
* Putnam Collection of Sculpture
* Residential Colleges
* Butler
* Forbes
* Mathey
* Rockefeller
* Whitman
* New College West
* Yeh
* Graduate
* future: Hobson
* former: First
* The Hedgehog and the Fox
* Walter Lowrie House
* Washington Road Elm Allée

Princetoniana|

* Lists of people
* American Whig-Clisophic Society
* Nobel laureates
* Presidents
* Evelyn College for Women
* FitzRandolph Gate
* Newman Day
* "Old Nassau"
* Reunions
* Jane Eliza Procter Fellowship
* former: Princeton Club of New York
* Princeton Law School

Presidents|

* Dickinson
* Burr
* Edwards
* Davies
* Finley
* Witherspoon
* Smith
* Green
* Carnahan
* Maclean
* McCosh
* Patton
* Wilson
* Hibben
* Dodds
* Goheen
* Bowen
* Shapiro
* Tilghman
* Eisgruber

Acting presidents|

* Cowell
* Green
* Blair
* Lindsley
* Stewart
* Duffield

Publications|

* The Daily Princetonian
* The Princeton Tory
* The Nassau Weekly
* The Princeton Progressive
* Princeton Alumni Weekly
* Princeton Tiger Magazine
* Princeton University Press

Organizations|

* AlumniCorps
* American Whig-Cliosophic Society
* Footnotes
* Orchestra
* Glee Club
* Katzenjammers
* Nassoons
* Theatre Intime
* Tigertones
* Triangle Club
* Two Dickinson Street Co-op
* WPRB

Athletics|

| Sports|

* Ivy League
* Big Three
* Princeton Tigers
* Baseball
* Basketball
* Men's
* Women's
* Football
* Ice Hockey
* Men's
* Women's
* Lacrosse
* Men's
* Women's
* Rugby
* Men's soccer
* Men's squash

|

Facilities|

* Hobey Baker Rink
* Bill Clarke Field
* Class of 1952 Stadium
* Dillon Gymnasium
* Jadwin Gymnasium
* Powers Field at Princeton Stadium
* Roberts Stadium
* Shea Rowing Center
* former: University Field
* Palmer Stadium

Rivalries|

* 1869 New Jersey vs. Rutgers football game
* 1922 Princeton vs. Chicago football game
* Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War

Spirit|

* The First Game
* "Princeton Cannon Song"
* Princeton University Band
* Winged football helmet

* Category
* Commons

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Laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize

1901–1925|

* 1901: Henry Dunant / Frédéric Passy
* 1902: Élie Ducommun / Charles Gobat
* 1903: Randal Cremer
* 1904: Institut de Droit International
* 1905: Bertha von Suttner
* 1906: Theodore Roosevelt
* 1907: Ernesto Moneta / Louis Renault
* 1908: Klas Arnoldson / Fredrik Bajer
* 1909: A. M. F. Beernaert / Paul Estournelles de Constant
* 1910: International Peace Bureau
* 1911: Tobias Asser / Alfred Fried
* 1912: Elihu Root
* 1913: Henri La Fontaine
* 1914
* 1915
* 1916
* 1917: International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1918
* 1919: Woodrow Wilson
* 1920: Léon Bourgeois
* 1921: Hjalmar Branting / Christian Lange
* 1922: Fridtjof Nansen
* 1923
* 1924
* 1925: Austen Chamberlain / Charles Dawes

1926–1950|

* 1926: Aristide Briand / Gustav Stresemann
* 1927: Ferdinand Buisson / Ludwig Quidde
* 1928
* 1929: Frank B. Kellogg
* 1930: Nathan Söderblom
* 1931: Jane Addams / Nicholas Butler
* 1932
* 1933: Norman Angell
* 1934: Arthur Henderson
* 1935: Carl von Ossietzky
* 1936: Carlos Saavedra Lamas
* 1937: Robert Cecil
* 1938: Nansen International Office for Refugees
* 1939
* 1940
* 1941
* 1942
* 1943
* 1944: International Committee of the Red Cross
* 1945: Cordell Hull
* 1946: Emily Balch / John Mott
* 1947: Friends Service Council / American Friends Service Committee
* 1948
* 1949: John Boyd Orr
* 1950: Ralph Bunche

1951–1975|

* 1951: Léon Jouhaux
* 1952: Albert Schweitzer
* 1953: George C. Marshall
* 1954: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1955
* 1956
* 1957: Lester B. Pearson
* 1958: Georges Pire
* 1959: Philip Noel-Baker
* 1960: Albert Luthuli
* 1961: Dag Hammarskjöld
* 1962: Linus Pauling
* 1963: International Committee of the Red Cross / League of Red Cross Societies
* 1964: Martin Luther King Jr.
* 1965: UNICEF
* 1966
* 1967
* 1968: René Cassin
* 1969: International Labour Organization
* 1970: Norman Borlaug
* 1971: Willy Brandt
* 1972
* 1973: Lê Đức Thọ (declined award) / Henry Kissinger
* 1974: Seán MacBride / Eisaku Satō
* 1975: Andrei Sakharov

1976–2000|

* 1976: Betty Williams / Mairead Corrigan
* 1977: Amnesty International
* 1978: Anwar Sadat / Menachem Begin
* 1979: Mother Teresa
* 1980: Adolfo Pérez Esquivel
* 1981: United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
* 1982: Alva Myrdal / Alfonso García Robles
* 1983: Lech Wałęsa
* 1984: Desmond Tutu
* 1985: International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
* 1986: Elie Wiesel
* 1987: Óscar Arias
* 1988: UN Peacekeeping Forces
* 1989: Tenzin Gyatso (14th Dalai Lama)
* 1990: Mikhail Gorbachev
* 1991: Aung San Suu Kyi
* 1992: Rigoberta Menchú
* 1993: Nelson Mandela / F. W. de Klerk
* 1994: Shimon Peres / Yitzhak Rabin / Yasser Arafat
* 1995: Pugwash Conferences / Joseph Rotblat
* 1996: Carlos Belo / José Ramos-Horta
* 1997: International Campaign to Ban Landmines / Jody Williams
* 1998: John Hume / David Trimble
* 1999: Médecins Sans Frontières
* 2000: Kim Dae-jung

2001–present|

* 2001: United Nations / Kofi Annan
* 2002: Jimmy Carter
* 2003: Shirin Ebadi
* 2004: Wangari Maathai
* 2005: International Atomic Energy Agency / Mohamed ElBaradei
* 2006: Grameen Bank / Muhammad Yunus
* 2007: Al Gore / Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
* 2008: Martti Ahtisaari
* 2009: Barack Obama
* 2010: Liu Xiaobo
* 2011: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf / Leymah Gbowee / Tawakkol Karman
* 2012: European Union
* 2013: Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
* 2014: Kailash Satyarthi / Malala Yousafzai
* 2015: Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
* 2016: Juan Manuel Santos
* 2017: International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons
* 2018: Denis Mukwege / Nadia Murad
* 2019: Abiy Ahmed
* 2020: World Food Programme
* 2021: Maria Ressa / Dmitry Muratov
* 2022: Ales Bialiatski / Memorial / Center for Civil Liberties
* 2023: Narges Mohammadi
* 2024: Nihon Hidankyo

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1919 Nobel Prize laureates

Chemistry|

* None

Literature (1919)|

* Carl Spitteler (Switzerland)

Peace|

* Woodrow Wilson (United States)

Physics|

* Johannes Stark (Germany)

Physiology or Medicine|

* Jules Bordet (Belgium)

Nobel Prize recipients
1914
1915
1916
1917
1918
1919
1920
1921
1922
1923
1924

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Hall of Fame for Great Americans inductees

* John Adams
* John Quincy Adams
* Jane Addams
* Louis Agassiz
* Susan B. Anthony
* John James Audubon
* George Bancroft
* Clara Barton
* Henry Ward Beecher
* Alexander Graham Bell
* Daniel Boone
* Edwin Booth
* Louis Brandeis
* Phillips Brooks
* William Cullen Bryant
* Luther Burbank
* Andrew Carnegie
* George Washington Carver
* William Ellery Channing
* Rufus Choate
* Henry Clay
* Grover Cleveland
* James Fenimore Cooper
* Peter Cooper
* Charlotte Cushman
* James Buchanan Eads
* Thomas Alva Edison
* Jonathan Edwards
* Ralph Waldo Emerson
* David Farragut
* Stephen Foster
* Benjamin Franklin
* Robert Fulton
* Josiah W. Gibbs
* William C. Gorgas
* Ulysses S. Grant
* Asa Gray
* Alexander Hamilton
* Nathaniel Hawthorne
* Joseph Henry
* Patrick Henry
* Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
* Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
* Mark Hopkins
* Elias Howe
* Washington Irving
* Andrew Jackson
* Thomas J. Jackson
* Thomas Jefferson
* John Paul Jones
* James Kent
* Sidney Lanier
* Robert E. Lee
* Abraham Lincoln
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
* James Russell Lowell
* Mary Lyon
* Edward MacDowell
* James Madison
* Horace Mann
* John Marshall
* Matthew Fontaine Maury
* Albert A. Michelson
* Maria Mitchell
* James Monroe
* Samuel F. B. Morse
* William T. G. Morton
* John Lothrop Motley
* Simon Newcomb
* Thomas Paine
* Alice Freeman Palmer
* Francis Parkman
* George Peabody
* William Penn
* Edgar Allan Poe
* Walter Reed
* Franklin D. Roosevelt
* Theodore Roosevelt
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens
* William Tecumseh Sherman
* John Philip Sousa
* Joseph Story
* Harriet Beecher Stowe
* Gilbert Stuart
* Sylvanus Thayer
* Henry David Thoreau
* Mark Twain
* Lillian Wald
* Booker T. Washington
* George Washington
* Daniel Webster
* George Westinghouse
* James McNeill Whistler
* Walt Whitman
* Eli Whitney
* John Greenleaf Whittier
* Emma Willard
* Frances Willard
* Roger Williams
* Woodrow Wilson
* Orville Wright
* Wilbur Wright

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Presidents of the American Political Science Association

1903–1925|

* Frank Johnson Goodnow (1903–1905)
* Albert Shaw (1905–1906)
* Frederick N. Judson (1906–1907)
* James Bryce (1907–1908)
* A. Lawrence Lowell (1908–1909)
* Woodrow Wilson (1909–1910)
* Simeon E. Baldwin (1910–1911)
* Albert Bushnell Hart (1911–1912)
* Westel W. Willoughby (1912–1913)
* John Bassett Moore (1913–1914)
* Ernst Freund (1914–1915)
* Jesse Macy (1915–1916)
* Munroe Smith (1916–1918)
* Henry Jones Ford (1918–1919)
* Paul Samuel Reinsch (1919–1920)
* Leo Stanton Rowe (1920–1921)
* William Archibald Dunning (1921–1922)
* Harry Augustus Garfield (1922–1923)
* James Wilford Garner (1923–1924)
* Charles Edward Merriam (1924–1925)

1925–1950|

* Charles A. Beard (1925–1926)
* William B. Munro (1926–1927)
* Jesse S. Reeves (1927–1928)
* John A. Fairlie (1928–1929)
* Benjamin F. Shambaugh (1929–1930)
* Edward Samuel Corwin (1930–1931)
* William F. Willoughby (1931–1932)
* Isidor Loeb (1932–1933)
* Walter J. Shepard (1933–1934)
* Francis W. Coker (1934–1935)
* Arthur N. Holcombe (1935–1936)
* Thomas Reed Powell (1936–1937)
* Clarence Addison Dykstra (1937–1938)
* Charles Grove Haines (1938–1939)
* Robert C. Brooks (1939–1940)
* Frederic A. Ogg (1940–1941)
* William Anderson (1941–1942)
* Robert E. Cushman (1942–1943)
* Leonard D. White (1943–1944)
* John Gaus (1944–1945)
* Walter F. Dodd (1945–1946)
* Arthur MacMahon (1946–1947)
* Henry R. Spencer (1947–1948)
* Quincy Wright (1948–1949)
* James K. Pollock (1949–1950)

1950–1975|

* Peter H. Odegard (1950–1951)
* Luther Gulick (1951–1952)
* E. Pendleton Herring (1952–1953)
* Ralph Bunche (1953–1954)
* Charles McKinley (1954–1955)
* Harold Lasswell (1955–1956)
* Elmer Eric Schattschneider (1956–1957)
* V. O. Key Jr. (1957–1958)
* R. Taylor Cole (1958–1959)
* Carl Brent Swisher (1959–1960)
* Emmette Redford (1960–1961)
* Charles S. Hyneman (1961–1962)
* Carl Joachim Friedrich (1962–1963)
* C. Herman Pritchett (1963–1964)
* David Truman (1964–1965)
* Gabriel Almond (1965–1966)
* Robert A. Dahl (1966–1967)
* Merle Fainsod (1967–1968)
* David Easton (1968–1969)
* Karl Deutsch (1969–1970)
* Robert E. Lane (1970–1971)
* Heinz Eulau (1971–1972)
* Robert E. Ward (1972–1973)
* Avery Leiserson (1973–1974)
* J. Austin Ranney (1974–1975)

1975–2000|

* James MacGregor Burns (1975–1976)
* Samuel Beer (1976–1977)
* John Wahlke (1977–1978)
* Leon Epstein (1978–1979)
* Warren Miller (1979–1980)
* Charles E. Lindblom (1980–1981)
* Seymour Martin Lipset (1981–1982)
* William H. Riker (1982–1983)
* Philip Converse (1983–1984)
* Richard Fenno (1984–1985)
* Aaron Wildavsky (1985–1986)
* Samuel P. Huntington (1986–1987)
* Kenneth Waltz (1987–1988)
* Lucian Pye (1988–1989)
* Judith N. Shklar (1989–1990)
* Theodore J. Lowi (1990–1991)
* James Q. Wilson (1991–1992)
* Lucius Barker (1992–1993)
* Charles O. Jones (1993–1994)
* Sidney Verba (1994–1995)
* Arend Lijphart (1995–1996)
* Elinor Ostrom (1996–1997)
* M. Kent Jennings (1997–1998)
* Matthew Holden (1998–1999)
* Robert Keohane (1999–2000)

2000–present|

* Robert Jervis (2000–2001)
* Robert D. Putnam (2001–2002)
* Theda Skocpol (2002–2003)
* Susanne Hoeber Rudolph (2003–2004)
* Margaret Levi (2004–2005)
* Ira Katznelson (2005–2006)
* Robert Axelrod (2006–2007)
* Dianne Pinderhughes (2007–2008)
* Peter J. Katzenstein (2008–2009)
* Henry E. Brady (2009–2010)
* Carole Pateman (2010–2011)
* G. Bingham Powell (2011–2012)
* Jane Mansbridge (2012–2013)
* John Aldrich (2013–2014)
* Rodney E. Hero (2014–2015)
* Jennifer Hochschild (2015–2016)
* David A. Lake (2016–2017)
* Kathleen Thelen (2017–2018)
* Rogers Smith (2018–2019)
* Paula D. McClain (2019–2020)
* Janet M. Box-Steffensmeier (2020–2021)
* John Ishiyama (2021–2022)
* Lisa Martin (2022–2023)
* Mark E. Warren (2023–present)

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Presidents of the American Historical Association

1884–1900|

* Andrew Dickson White (1884–1885)
* George Bancroft (1886)
* Justin Winsor (1887)
* William Frederick Poole (1888)
* Charles Kendall Adams (1889)
* John Jay (1890)
* William Wirt Henry (1891)
* James Burrill Angell (1892–1893)
* Henry Adams (1893–1894)
* George F. Hoar (1895)
* Richard Salter Storrs (1896)
* James Schouler (1897)
* George Park Fisher (1898)
* James Ford Rhodes (1899)
* Edward Eggleston (1900)

1901–1925|

* Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1901)
* Alfred Thayer Mahan (1902)
* Henry Charles Lea (1903)
* Goldwin Smith (1904)
* John Bach McMaster (1905)
* Simeon E. Baldwin (1906)
* J. Franklin Jameson (1907)
* George Burton Adams (1908)
* Albert Bushnell Hart (1909)
* Frederick Jackson Turner (1910)
* William Milligan Sloane (1911)
* Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
* William Archibald Dunning (1913)
* Andrew C. McLaughlin (1914)
* H. Morse Stephens (1915)
* George Lincoln Burr (1916)
* Worthington C. Ford (1917)
* William Roscoe Thayer (1918–1919)
* Edward Channing (1920)
* Jean Jules Jusserand (1921)
* Charles Homer Haskins (1922)
* Edward Potts Cheyney (1923)
* Woodrow Wilson (1924)
* Charles McLean Andrews (1924–1925)

1926–1950|

* Dana Carleton Munro (1926)
* Henry Osborn Taylor (1927)
* James Henry Breasted (1928)
* James Harvey Robinson (1929)
* Evarts Boutell Greene (1930)
* Carl L. Becker (1931)
* Herbert Eugene Bolton (1932)
* Charles A. Beard (1933)
* William Dodd (1934)
* Michael Rostovtzeff (1935)
* Charles Howard McIlwain (1936)
* Guy Stanton Ford (1937)
* Laurence M. Larson (1938)
* William Scott Ferguson (1939)
* Max Farrand (1940)
* James Westfall Thompson (1941)
* Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. (1942)
* Nellie Neilson (1943)
* William Linn Westermann (1944)
* Carlton J. H. Hayes (1945)
* Sidney Bradshaw Fay (1946)
* Thomas J. Wertenbaker (1947)
* Kenneth Scott Latourette (1948)
* Conyers Read (1949)
* Samuel Eliot Morison (1950)

1951–1975|

* Robert Livingston Schuyler (1951)
* James G. Randall (1952)
* Louis R. Gottschalk (1953)
* Merle Curti (1954)
* Lynn Thorndike (1955)
* Dexter Perkins (1956)
* William L. Langer (1957)
* Walter Prescott Webb (1958)
* Allan Nevins (1959)
* Bernadotte Everly Schmitt (1960)
* Samuel Flagg Bemis (1961)
* Carl Bridenbaugh (1962)
* Crane Brinton (1963)
* Julian P. Boyd (1964)
* Frederic C. Lane (1965)
* Roy Franklin Nichols (1966)
* Hajo Holborn (1967)
* John King Fairbank (1968)
* C. Vann Woodward (1969)
* Robert Roswell Palmer (1970)
* David M. Potter (1971)
* Joseph Strayer (1971)
* Thomas C. Cochran (1972)
* Lynn Townsend White Jr. (1973)
* Lewis Hanke (1974)
* Gordon Wright (1975)

1976–2000|

* Richard B. Morris (1976)
* Charles Gibson (1977)
* William J. Bouwsma (1978)
* John Hope Franklin (1979)
* David H. Pinkney (1980)
* Bernard Bailyn (1981)
* Gordon A. Craig (1982)
* Philip D. Curtin (1983)
* Arthur S. Link (1984)
* William H. McNeill (1985)
* Carl N. Degler (1986)
* Natalie Zemon Davis (1987)
* Akira Iriye (1988)
* Louis R. Harlan (1989)
* David Herlihy (1990)
* William Leuchtenburg (1991)
* Frederic Wakeman (1992)
* Louise A. Tilly (1993)
* Thomas C. Holt (1994)
* John Henry Coatsworth (1995)
* Caroline Walker Bynum (1996)
* Joyce Appleby (1997)
* Joseph C. Miller (1998)
* Robert Darnton (1999)
* Eric Foner (2000)

2001–present|

* Wm. Roger Louis (2001)
* Lynn Hunt (2002)
* James M. McPherson (2003)
* Jonathan D. Spence (2004)
* James J. Sheehan (2005)
* Linda K. Kerber (2006)
* Barbara Weinstein (2007)
* Gabrielle M. Spiegel (2008)
* Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (2009)
* Barbara D. Metcalf (2010)
* Anthony Grafton (2011)
* William Cronon (2012)
* Kenneth Pomeranz (2013)
* Jan E. Goldstein (2014)
* Vicki L. Ruiz (2015)
* Patrick Manning (2016)
* Tyler E. Stovall (2017)
* Mary Beth Norton (2018)
* J. R. McNeill (2019)
* Mary Lindemann (2020)
* Jacqueline Jones (2021)
* James H. Sweet (2022)
* Edward Muir (2023)
* Thavolia Glymph (2024)

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(<- 1908) 1912 United States presidential election (-> 1916)

Democratic Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Woodrow Wilson
* Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall

|

Other candidates|

* Champ Clark
* Judson Harmon
* Oscar Underwood
* Thomas R. Marshall
* Eugene Foss

Republican Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: William Howard Taft (incumbent)
* Vice President: ~~James S. Sherman~~ (incumbent; nominated but died before election)
* Nicholas Murray Butler

|

Other candidates|

* Theodore Roosevelt
* Robert M. La Follette

Progressive Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Theodore Roosevelt

* Vice President: Hiram Johnson

|

Socialist Party|

| Nominees|

* President: Eugene V. Debs
* Vice President: Emil Seidel

|

Third-party and independent candidates

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: Eugene W. Chafin
* VP nominee: Aaron S. Watkins

Socialist Labor Party|

* Nominee: Arthur E. Reimer
* VP nominee: August Gillhaus

* Other 1912 elections: House
* Senate

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(<- 1912) 1916 United States presidential election (-> 1920)

Democratic Party
(Convention)|

| Incumbent
nominees|

* President: Woodrow Wilson
* Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall

|

Republican Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Charles Evans Hughes
* Vice President: Charles W. Fairbanks

|

Other candidiates|

* John W. Weeks
* Elihu Root
* Charles W. Fairbanks
* Albert B. Cummins
* Theodore E. Burton

Third-party and independent candidates

Socialist Party|

* Nominee: Allan L. Benson
* VP nominee: George Ross Kirkpatrick

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: Frank Hanly
* VP nominee: Ira Landrith

* Other 1916 elections: House
* Senate

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(<- 1916) 1920 United States presidential election (-> 1924)

Republican Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: Warren G. Harding
* Vice President: Calvin Coolidge

|

Other candidates|

* Leonard Wood
* Frank Orren Lowden
* Hiram Johnson
* William Cameron Sproul
* Nicholas Murray Butler
* Calvin Coolidge
* Robert M. La Follette
* Jeter C. Pritchard
* Miles Poindexter
* Howard Sutherland
* Herbert Hoover

Democratic Party
(Convention)|

| Nominees|

* President: James M. Cox
* Vice President: Franklin D. Roosevelt

|

Other candidates|

* William Gibbs McAdoo
* A. Mitchell Palmer
* Al Smith
* John W. Davis
* Edward I. Edwards
* Woodrow Wilson (incumbent)
* Robert L. Owen

Third party and independent candidates

Socialist Party|

* Nominee: Eugene V. Debs
* VP nominee: Seymour Stedman

Farmer–Labor Party|

* Nominee: Parley P. Christensen
* VP nominee: Max S. Hayes

Prohibition Party|

* Nominee: Aaron S. Watkins
* VP nominee: D. Leigh Colvin

American Party|

* Nominee: James E. Ferguson
* VP nominee: William J. Hough

Socialist Labor Party|

* Nominee: William Wesley Cox
* VP nominee: August Gillhaus

Single Tax|

* Nominee: Robert Colvin Macauley
* VP nominee: Richard C. Barnum

* Other 1920 elections: House
* Senate

Authority control databases

International|

* ISNI
* VIAF
* FAST
* WorldCat

National|

* Germany
* United States
* France
* BnF data
* Japan
* Australia
* Czech Republic
* Russia
* Spain
* 2
* Portugal
* Netherlands
* Norway
* 2
* Latvia
* Croatia
* Chile
* Greece
* Korea
* Sweden
* Poland
* Vatican
* Israel
* Belgium

Academics|

* CiNii
* Mathematics Genealogy Project
* Google Scholar

Artists|

* MusicBrainz
* Discography of American Historical Recordings

People|

* Trove
* Deutsche Biographie
* DDB

Other|

* IdRef
* NARA
* SNAC
* 2
* Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine

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