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31-07-2015, 08:17

Second Administration (March 4, 1917-March 3, 1921)

Vice President: Thomas R. Marshall Secretary of State: Robert Lansing; Bainbridge Colby (from March 1920)

Secretary of the Treasury: William G. McAdoo; Carter Glass (from December 1918); David F. Houston (from February 1920)

Secretary of War: Newton D. Baker Attorney General: Thomas W. Gregory;

A. Mitchell Palmer (from March 1919) Postmaster General: Albert S. Burleson Secretary of the Navy: Josephus Daniels Secretary of the Interior: Franklin K. Lane;

John B. Payne (from March 1920)

Secretary of Agriculture: David F. Houston;

Edwin T. Meredith (from February 1920) Secretary of Commerce: William C. Redfield;

Joshua W. Alexander (from December 1919) Secretary of Labor: William B. Wilson

Family Facts

Father: Joseph Ruggles Wilson (1822-1903) Mother: Jessie Janet Woodrow Wilson (1826-1888)

First Wife: Ellen Louise Axson (1860-1914) First Marriage: June 24, 1885 Second Wife: Edith Bolling Galt (1872-1961) Second Marriage: December 18, 1915 Children: (by his first wife) Margaret Woodrow (1886-1944); Jessie Woodrow (1887-1933); Eleanor Randolph (1889-1967)

Unusual Facts

Woodrow Wilson was the only president to hold a doctorate.

He was one of only two presidents to win the Nobel Peace Prize.

He was the first president to travel to Europe while in office.



 

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