Sold – Oversize Photograph of Woodrow Wilson’s First Cabinet Meeting
Wilson was president of Princeton Uinversity when he was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1911. He quickly became a national figure due to his progressive views and reform policies. The following year he received the Democratic nomination and was elected as the twenty-eighth President of the United States. He took office...
Wilson was president of Princeton Uinversity when he was elected Governor of New Jersey in 1911. He quickly became a national figure due to his progressive views and reform policies. The following year he received the Democratic nomination and was elected as the twenty-eighth President of the United States. He took office on March 4, 1913, and immediately took measures to implement his program, the New Freedom. Within the first two years he had established the Federal Reserve, broadened the anti-trust laws to prevent restraints of trade, organized the Federal Trade Commission, and lowered tariffs.
This beautiful 15 by 18 inch photograph by Harris and Ewing memorialized Wilson’s first cabinet meeting in March 1913, attended by the President and his ten cabinet heads. All of those pictured signed the photograph; the signatories are, clockwise, President Wilson, Secretary of the Treasury William Gibbs McAdoo, Attorney General James C. McReynolds, Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, Secretary of Agriculture David F. Houston, Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson, Postmaster General Albert S. Burleson, Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of Commerce William C. Redfield, Secretary of War Lindley M. Garrison, and Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan.
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