Credit: Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library,
Mother's Day appealed to opponents of women's suffrage in both political parties, and to President Woodrow Wilson, who signed a presidential proclamation for Mother's Day on May 9, 1914. Four years later, Wilson changed his position when he argued that women's right to vote was urgently needed as a war measure. With ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment on 26th August 1920, American women had finally won the right to vote.
