He served as the United States President from 1913 to 1921
One of the most important accomplishments of Woodrow Wilson is that Woodrow Wilson served as the United States President from March 4, 1913, until March 4, 1921. Wilson, a Democrat who had previously served as governor of New Jersey, was elected president after winning the 1912 election with a huge majority of electoral votes and a 42% plurality of popular votes in a four-candidate field. Wilson was re-elected in 1916, narrowly defeating Republican rival Charles Evans Hughes. Wilson was a driving influence in the Progressive Movement, and during his first term, he supervised the approval of progressive legislative initiatives unprecedented until the 1930s New Deal.
In terms of race, Wilson's administration strengthened segregationist rules for government agencies. When World War I broke out in 1914, Wilson maintained a neutral posture while adopting a moralistic policy in dealing with Mexico's civil war. Wilson's second term was dominated by the United States' participation in World War I and its aftermath. When Germany started unrestricted submarine warfare in April 1917, Wilson pushed Congress to declare war in order to keep "the world safe for democracy." By the summer of 1918, conscription had dispatched 10,000 newly trained soldiers to France per day through the Selective Service Act.
Wilson raised income taxes, established the War Industries Board, encouraged labor union collaboration, regulated agriculture, and food production under the Lever Act, and nationalized the nation's railroad infrastructure on the home front. Wilson requested the Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 in his 1915 State of the Union address, effectively repressing anti-draft protestors. Wilson went on a countrywide campaign to promote the pact, which would have incorporated the U.S. Wilson served the balance of his second term despite considerable concerns about his health and mental competence and unsuccessfully sought his party's candidacy for a third term.
