Wilson cabinet

Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States

A cabinet meeting, around 1920

With Woodrow Wilson , the second candidate was only the Democratic Party since the end of the Civil War to the President of the United States elected; only Grover Cleveland had done this before him . Wilson defeated incumbent William Howard Taft in 1912 and also prevailed four years later against Republican Charles Evans Hughes .

Wilson created two new agencies, the Department of Commerce and the Department of Labor . These had previously been united in the Ministry of Commerce and Labor .

The Cabinet

Department / Office	Official	Period
President of the United States	Woodrow Wilson	1913-1921
Vice President of the United States	Thomas Riley Marshall	1913-1921

United States Secretary of State	William Jennings Bryan	1913-1915
	Robert Lansing	1915-1920
	Bainbridge Colby	1920-1921
United States Secretary of the Treasury	William Gibbs McAdoo	1913-1918
	Carter Glass	1918-1920
	David Franklin Houston	1920-1921
United States Secretary of War	Lindley Miller Garrison	1913-1916
United States Secretary of War	Newton Diehl Baker	1916-1921
United States Secretary of the Navy	Josephus Daniels	1913-1921
United States Attorney General	James Clark McReynolds	1913-1914
	Thomas Watt Gregory	1914-1919
	Alexander Mitchell Palmer	1919-1921
United States Postal Secretary	Albert Sidney Burleson	1913-1921
United States Secretary of the Interior	Franklin Knight Lane	1913-1920
United States Secretary of the Interior	John Barton Payne	1920-1921
United States Secretary of Agriculture	David Franklin Houston	1913-1920
United States Secretary of Agriculture	Edwin Thomas Meredith	1920-1921
United States Secretary of Commerce	William Cox Redfield	1913-1919
United States Secretary of Commerce	Joshua Willis Alexander	1919-1921
United States Secretary of Labor	William Bauchop Wilson	1913-1921

Ralph Dietl: USA and Central America: The Foreign Policy of William J. Bryan, 1913–1915 . Dissertation (1995)