As a consequence of the unbalanced social development and the labour movement's continuous position in the political opposition, the Social Democratic Party had gained an absolute majority in the Parliament of Finland, in the general elections of 1916.

As Marshall made little news and was viewed as a somewhat comic figure in Washington because of his sense of humor, a number of Democratic party leaders wanted him removed from the 1916 reelection ticket.

** U. S. presidential election, 1916: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles E. Hughes.

Obsessed with changing the world, he grows restless, and heads for St. Louis to cover the 1916 Democratic Convention.

In Presidential elections the county has not been won by a Democratic candidate since Woodrow Wilson in 1916 and was the only county in Utah carried by Alf Landon.

The film was a popular success and was credited by the Democratic National Committee with helping to re-elect Woodrow Wilson as the U. S. President in 1916.

The last Democratic Presidential candidate to win the county was Woodrow Wilson in 1916. and Ben Nelson, in 1994, was the last Democratic gubernatorial candidate to carry the county.

* George T. Smith ( 1916 – 2010 ), American Democratic Party politician and jurist from the state of Georgia

( 29 April 1916 – 4 July 2006 ) was a Norwegian politician from the Christian Democratic Party.

Although German Jews generally leaned Republican in the second half of the 19th century, the East European elements voted Democratic or for left parties since at least 1916, when they voted 55 % for Woodrow Wilson.

In 1916, he was again a delegate to Democratic National Convention which nominated President Woodrow Wilson for re-election.

The Adamson Act of 1916 established an eight-hour day for railroad labor and solidified the ties between the labor unions and the Democratic Party.

Democrat Sidney J. Catts of Florida, after losing a close Democratic primary, used the Prohibition line to win election as Governor of Florida in 1916 ; he remained a Democrat.

In 1916, Fraser became involved in the foundation of the New Zealand Labour Party, which absorbed much of the moribund Social Democratic Party's membership.

* National Socialist Party ( UK ), a breakaway group from the British Socialist Party formed in 1916 ; historically Marxist, it reverted to a previous name as the Social Democratic Federation in 1919 and then merged with the Labour Party.

* Robert Emmett Lee ( 1868 – 1916 ), Democratic member of the U. S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania

By now, any assistance provided to him by Hudson County Democratic boss Frank Hague in the 1916 election was long forgotten, and Edge hammered on the theme of Hague ’ s power, campaigning that a vote for Murphy was a vote for the domination of “ labor leaders, communists and Hagueism ”.

Johnson and Hudson County Democratic leader Frank Hague were widely credited with engineering Edge ’ s 1916 victory, and Johnson also served as Edge ’ s campaign manager during his successful run for the United States Senate in 1918.

Davis won the Republican nomination for governor in 1916, but was narrowly defeated by the Democratic incumbent, Moses Alexander.

In 1916, Bickett became the first state governor who was nominated by means of a Democratic Party primary election ( in which he defeated Lt. Gov.

Palmer served as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in both 1912 and 1916.

In 1916, Watson entered the U. S. Senate race against Democratic Senator John W. Kern, but his bitter primary battle against Harry S. New threatened to divide the state Republican party.

In 1916 Tsereteli was a representative of Georgia in the Union of Nations in Lausanne, in 1918-1919 Ambassador of the Democratic Republic of Georgia ( DRG ) in Sweden and Norway.

* 1916 – The United States National Park Service is created.

Image: Monet Water Lilies 1916. jpg | Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

One of the first was the Swiss National League A, founded in 1916.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies, 1916, The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo

* 1916 – The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450, 000 men.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir-Femmes au bain. jpg | Women Bathers, 1916, National Museum, Stockholm, Sweden

* Timothy Drew ( Noble Drew Ali, Sharif Abdul Ali ), prophet and founder of the Moorish Science Temple of America, founder of the Moorish Divine and National Movement, May 1, 1916, Newark N. J.

In 1916, Bennett was appointed director general of the National Service Board, which was in charge of identifying the number of potential recruits in the country.

Between 1916 and 1921, there was a vogue of V12s, during which National ( Indianapolis ) copied the Packard engine, and Weidely Motors ( also of Indianapolis ) offered a proprietary engine.

Under this congressional charter, the National Research Council was created in 1916, the National Academy of Engineering in 1964, and the Institute of Medicine in 1970.

The National Research Council was organized in 1916 in response to the increased need for scientific and technical services caused by World War I.

With the passage of the 1916 National Defense Act approximately one half of the United States Army's available combat forces and approximately one third of its support organizations were National Guard units.

# National Defense Act of 1916

Kidderminster Operatics & Dramatics Society ( KODS ) was founded in 1916 and is affiliated to the National Operatic and Dramatic Association ( NODA ).

In 1916, pro-Venizelist Greek army officers and civilians, with the support of the Allies, launched the Movement of National Defence, creating a pro-Allied temporary government by the name of the " State of Thessaloniki " that controlled " new lands " ( lands that were gained by Greece in the Balkan Wars, most of Northern Greece including Greek Macedonia, the North Aegean as well as the island of Crete ); the official government of the King in Athens, the " State of Athens ", controlled the " old lands " which were traditionally monarchist.

The 1916 Republican National Convention was held in Chicago from June 7 to June 10.

Later, Tilak re-united with his fellow nationalists and re-joined the Indian National Congress in 1916.

* National Lead Company, now NL Industries, removed from the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 1916.

The National Park Service, on its creation in 1916, took over Yosemite.

* John McCarthy ( American football ) ( born 1916 ), professional football player in the National Football League