Woodrow Wilson's Declaration of War Message
Speech
By: Woodrow Wilson
Date: April 2, 1917
Source: Wilson, Woodrow. "Address by the President of the United States." Congressional Record, 65th Congress, 1st sess., April 2, 1917, 102–104. Reprinted in Hyser, Raymond M., and J. Chris Arndt. Voices of the American Past: Documents in U.S. History. Vol. 2. Fort Worth, Tex.: Harcourt Brace, 1995, 122–124.
About the Author: Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924), born in Virginia, was the first post–Civil War president from the South. He earned a doctorate from Johns Hopkins University and became president of Princeton University in 1902. He was elected president of the United States in 1912 and reelected in 1916. He championed progressive reform, tariff reform, the Federal Trade Commission Act, and the Federal Reserve Act.
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