Though the Democrats dominated national Congressional politics in the later years of the 19th Century, they only managed to elect New York’s Glover Cleveland to the Presidency. Republican Presidents like Benjamin Harrison continued to push the restoration of Negro rights, but Democrat Congressmen successfully blocked those attempts. Then in 1912 Theodore Roosevelt split his Progressive Republicans away from William Howard Taft’s Republicans and opened the doors for Progressive Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Wilson won with 42% of the vote, making him the first Southern Democrat President after the Civil War. Texas and the Southern States voted in a solid block for him, bringing along the Midwest, and many other States to generate a crushing Electoral win. Wilson then proceeded to press an agenda to fundamentally transform the United States of America along Progressive ideals.