In October 1919 Evangeline Booth, commander of the Salvation Army in America, was awarded a Distinguished Service Medal from President Woodrow Wilson for the services performed by the Salvation Army in military camps during the war.

Louis Dembitz Brandeis, a prominent Boston attorney, was chosen as the chairman of the Provisional Executive Committee at a Zionist convention on 30 August 1914. The Federation of American Zionists, the major Zionist organization in the United States, grew under Brandeis's leadership from 12,000 members in 1914 to 176,000 members in 1919, at which time the group was restructured as the Zionist Organization of America. Brandeis was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Woodrow Wilson in 1916, becoming the first Jew to serve in the nation's highest court.

On 29 November 1911 Archbishops John M. Farley of New York and William O'Connell of Boston were elevated to the cardinalate in Rome by Pope Pius X...