Woodrow Wilson
(March 4, 1913 to March 3, 1921)

Born: December 28, 1856
Died: February 3, 1924

Political Party: Democrat
Previous Occupation: Teacher, public official

Elected From: New Jersey
Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall (1913-21)
Cabinet Members: view list

Other Government Positions:
· Governor of New Jersey, 1911-13


Inaugural Address: 1913, 1917
Biography: view

Presidential Highlights:
· Approved the fist federal income tax bill (taxpayers paid a flat rate of one percent on most of their income).

· Approved the Federal Reserve Act (made the federal government the sole issuer of money in the United States, and created the Federal Reserve System which regulates banks and sets interest rates).

· Approved the Clayton Antitrust Act (specifically outlawed specific business practices).

· Approved the Keating-Owen Act (banned interstate sales of products made by children).

· World War I. In 1914, President Wilson declared the United States to be neutral in the war in Europe. In 1915, German submarines sank the British liners Lusitania and Arabic. Americans aboard the liners lost their lives. In 1917, Germany threatened to sink foreign merchant ships on the high seas. This undermined global commerce. On April 2, 1917, President Wilson asked congress to declare war on Germany. The war ended on November 11, 1918 with the Treaty of Versailles. The United States had emerged victorious.

Presidential Election:
1912
Woodrow Wilson435
Theodore Roosevelt88
William H. Taft8

1916
Woodrow Wilson277
Charles E. Hughes254

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