Really? I'd say the truly liberal Democratic Party ceased after Grover Cleveland.
There may be some truth to this...but I was thinking more to the 20th Century to which I didn't go back far enough...and that would have been Woodrow Wilson.
Grover Cleveland | The White House
Woodrow Wilson | The White House
Woodrow Wilson was a progressive, not a liberal. The Democratic Party rejected liberalism for progressivism and Wilson followed the party line rather than sticking to any principles.
Odd. Isn't 'Progressive' what DemocRATS call themselves now? (Other than the fact they have 'progressed into Socialism/Marxism/Statism)?
Interesting.