A short account of the two inaugural ceremonies of President Woodrow Wilson.

U.S. Army Major General Leonard Wood served as the Grand Marshal of the parade in which 50,000 marchers hoofed it for 13.5 miles. The 1913 inauguration of President Wilson was the first to be documented with a motion picture camera.


An article about Wilson’s reluctance to go to war can be read here…


Read about the suffragettes who attacked President Wilson…

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