Robert Ewing, Wilson’s friend since the president’s days as a college professor, was the publisher of several Louisiana newspapers. A force in Democratic politics, he was instrumental in gaining Wilson the Democratic nomination in 1912. When late in his second term Wilson asked Ewing—an opponent of the Anthony Amendment—for help winning Louisiana Senator Gay’s vote for the Anthony Amendment, Ewing helped concoct a Jim Crow-friendly version of it.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1914
Robert Ewing, Wilson’s friend since the president’s days as a college professor, was the publisher of several Louisiana newspapers. A force in Democratic politics, he was instrumental in gaining Wilson the Democratic nomination in 1912. When late in his second term Wilson asked Ewing—an opponent of the Anthony Amendment—for help winning Louisiana Senator Gay’s vote for the Anthony Amendment, Ewing helped concoct a Jim Crow-friendly version of it.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: 1914