The First Federal Drug Law. The original Pure Food and Drugs Act was passed by Congress in 1906 and signed by President Theodore Roosevelt. The law, which prohibited misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks, and drugs in interstate commerce, was enforced by the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture. It continues the exclusivity provisions for pediatric drugs as mandated under the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997, in which market exclusivity of a drug is extended by six months if a manufacturer fulfills its commitment to carry out studies of the effects of drugs when taken by children.
Thomas Woodrow Wilson (December 28, 1856 â February 3, 1924) was an American statesman and academic who served as the 28th President of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910 and then ran and was elected as a progressive Democrat to the office of Governor of New Jersey.
National Progressive Convention, 1912, in the Chicago Coliseum. The Progressive Party of 1912 was an American third party. It was formed by former President Theodore Roosevelt, after he lost the nomination of the Republican Party to his former protÃ©gÃ©, President William Howard Taft, who had since become his political adversary.