Aleksandras Stulginskis moved to Vilnius during Word War 1, he was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and signed the memorandum for the president Woodrow Wilson.
During World War I he moved to Vilnius. He was one of the founders of the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and the head of its Central Committee in 1917. He signed the memorandum for the president Woodrow Wilson, addressing the question of the recognition of the Lithuanian statehood by the United States. 
