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Capitol Lens: Waiting for Wilson

One hundred years ago, this was the scene outside the entrance to the 1912 Democratic National Convention in Baltimore. The party chose New Jersey Gov. Woodrow Wilson, a native of Virginia, as its standard-bearer, and he went on to win a landslide victory over a Republican Party split between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt.

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