how old was woodrow wilson when he was elected president?
Woodrow Wilson 1917 presidential inauguration Woodrow Wilson 1913 presidential inauguration
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 Although US President Woodrow Wilson was re @-@ elected in 1916 under the slogan " He kept us out of the war " , at the start of his second term he decided that Germany 's continued deployment of unrestricted submarine warfare was sufficient cause for the US to enter World War I. Shortly afterward , Congress passed the Selective Service Act of 1917 , which required all males aged 21 – 30 to register for military conscription . Goldman saw the decision as an exercise in militarist aggression , driven by capitalism . She declared in Mother Earth her intent to resist conscription , and to oppose US involvement in the war . 

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 After the war , Wilson served as a member of the Gerow Board , which examined the military educational system and instituted a series of long @-@ lasting reforms . In 1947 , he was diagnosed with neurasthenia , and retired with the rank of major general . 

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 Hay had met the President 's father , Theodore Roosevelt , Sr. , during the Civil War , and during his time at the Tribune came to know the adolescent " Teddy " , twenty years younger than himself . Although before becoming president Roosevelt often wrote fulsome letters of praise to Secretary Hay , his letters to others then and later were less complimentary . Hay felt Roosevelt too impulsive , and privately opposed his inclusion on the ticket in 1900 , though he quickly wrote a congratulatory note after the convention . 

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 In 1872 Wilson had a strong reputation among Republicans as a principled but practical reformer who supported African American civil rights , voting rights for women , federal education aid , regulation of businesses , and prohibition of liquor . In 1870 , incumbent Vice President Schuyler Colfax , said he would not run for another term , creating the possibility of a contested nomination . In addition , some Republicans , including Grant , desired another vice presidential nominee because they believed Colfax had presidential aspirations and might endanger Grant 's reelection by bolting to the Liberal Republican Party , which had formed because of opposition to charges of corruption in the Grant administration and Grant 's attempted Santo Domingo annexation . 

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 Henry Wilson , a Senator from Massachusetts and chairman of the Senate 's Committee on Military Affairs , witnessed the First Battle of Bull Run on July 21 , 1861 . The disastrous defeat of the Union army convinced Wilson , and the federal government in general , of the urgent need for more troops . Immediately after the battle , Wilson promised both President Abraham Lincoln and Massachusetts Governor John Andrew that he would raise a full brigade including units of infantry , artillery , cavalry and sharpshooters . 
