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Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was born in Virginia but grew up in Augusta, Georgia, where his father was an official of the Southern Presbyterian church. After briefly practicing as a lawyer (he only had two clients, one of whom was his mother), he attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins and taught history and political science at Bryn Mawr, Wesleyan, and Princeton, his alma mater. As Princeton’s president, he developed a reputation as a reformer for trying to eliminate the school’s elitist system of teaching...
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Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover (1874–1964), a Stanford-educated mining engineer, spearheaded relief and reconstruction efforts following World War I and proved an effective secretary of commerce (1921–1929) under Harding and Coolidge. He easily won the Republican presidential nomination in 1928, and defeated Democratic candidate Alfred E. Smith in the election. His administration, however, was marred by the stock market crash of October 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression. In 1932, when some 15,000 ex-...