Joseph Tumulty, pictured here c. 1913 with Wilson, served for eight years as White House secretary, roughly equivalent to today’s chief of staff. An Irish Democrat from New Jersey who had served as Wilson’s executive secretary in the New Jersey governor’s office, he was a suffrage sympathizer who built close ties with NAWSA. Ever protective of his boss, within a few years he saw to it that only those women who supported the president—not Alice Paul’s organization—were allowed an audience.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1913
Joseph Tumulty, pictured here c. 1913 with Wilson, served for eight years as White House secretary, roughly equivalent to today’s chief of staff. An Irish Democrat from New Jersey who had served as Wilson’s executive secretary in the New Jersey governor’s office, he was a suffrage sympathizer who built close ties with NAWSA. Ever protective of his boss, within a few years he saw to it that only those women who supported the president—not Alice Paul’s organization—were allowed an audience.
Source photograph: Harris & Ewing, photographer; Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
Date: c. 1913