 Woodrow Wilson Gubernatorial Inaugural Badge and Ribbons, 1911. About Uncirculated. Well-made 30mm Celluloid sepia Wilson portrait button is inscribed INAUGURATION, GOV. WOODROW WILSON, 1911. Ornate celluloid PRESIDENT pinback header joins a large and intricate black and orange bow ribbon gold-stamped WOODROW WILSON, DEMOCRATIC CLUB. In handsome shadow box-style 36 x 21 x 4cm frame of exceptional beauty.
This elaborate badge was issued for Wilson's Inauguration as Governor of New Jersey, a post he won after serving as President of Princeton University and which he held for two years before his election as President of the United States. Here is a rare and significant relic of Wilson's earlier political career.
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