Object Details
- Description
- Woodrow Wilson was governor of New Jersey when he became the 1912 Democratic presidential nominee. The only US president to hold a Ph.D., Wilson had previously been a professor of Political Science and president of Princeton University. This wooden nutcracker was an attempt to add a lighter touch to Wilson’s reputation as an intellectual and academic. He won a four-way race in 1912 defeating former president Theodore Roosevelt (Progressive), incumbent president William Howard Taft (Republican), and labor activist Eugene V. Debs (Socialist) who finished in that order.
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
- associated person
- Wilson, Woodrow
- Credit Line
- Ralph E. Becker
- Physical Description
- wood (overall material)
- carved (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 3/4 in x 2 1/2 in x 3 1/2 in; 22.225 cm x 6.35 cm x 8.89 cm
- Object Name
- Nutcracker
