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Woodrow Wilson

Woodrow Wilson

president of United States

Taft, Robert A.

Robert A. Taft

United States senator

Lodge, Henry Cabot

Henry Cabot Lodge

United States senator [1850-1924]

Jeannette Rankin, 1918

Jeannette Rankin

American politician

Borah

William E. Borah

American politician

Hiram Johnson, c. 1912

Hiram Johnson

American politician