---
title: Improvement Era
description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930.
authors:
  - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - magazine
  - improvement-era
periodical: Improvement Era
volume: 20
number: 9
published: 1917-07
publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
publisher_place: Salt Lake City
language: en
type: magazine
reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Leaders at the Front in Washington," *Improvement Era* 20, no. 9 (July 1917): 772.'
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2009unse
  transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers.
  identifier: improvementera2009unse
start_page: 772
end_page: 772
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1917-07)
  source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera2009unse
  publication_year: 1917
  note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1917, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright.
---

# Leaders at the Front in Washington

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<!-- Figure caption: Leaders at the Front in Washington. Left to right: Woodrow Wilson, Thomas Riley Marshall, William Bauchop Wilson, Thomas Watt Gregory, Franklin Knight Lane, Albert Sidney Burleson, William C. Redfield, David Franklin Houston, Josephus Daniels, Robert Lansing, William Gibbs McAdoo, and Newton Diehl Baker. -->

Leaders  at  the  Front  in  Washington
Left  to  right:  Woodrow  Wilson,  President  of  the  United  States;  Thomas
Riley  Marshall,  Vice-President  of  the  United  States;  William  Bauchop  Wil-
son, Secretary  of  Labor;  Thomas  Watt  Gregory,  Attorney-General.
Left  to  right:  Franklin  Knight  Lane,  Secretary  of  the  Interior;  Albert
Sidney  Burleson,  Postmaster-General;  William  C.  Redfield,  Secretary  of
Commerce;  David  Franklin  Houston,  Secretary  of  Agriculture.
Left  to  right:  Josephus  Daniels,  Secretary  of  the  Navy;  Robert  Lansing,
Secretary  of  State;  William  Gibbs  McAdco,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury;
Newton  Diehl  Baker,  Secretary  of  War.