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e. William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was ...
1857–1930. William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Known for his legal expertise, he held many significant positions, including Governor-General of the Philippines and Secretary of War.
El libro William Howard Taft profundiza en la vida y carrera del 27° Presidente de los Estados Unidos y el 10° Juez Presidente de la Corte Suprema de los Estados Unidos, el único individuo en haber ocupado ambos cargos.
William Howard Taft : Yale professor of law & New Haven citizen ; an academic interlude in the life of the twenty-seventh president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the Supreme Court / by Frederick C. Hicks. Found In:
Early in 1908, the only two Republican contenders running nationwide campaigns for the presidential nomination were Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Governor Joseph B. Foraker, both of Ohio. In the nomination contest, four states held primaries to select national convention delegates.
William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 15, 1857. From a prominent political family, he followed his forebears into law and was on track to be a career jurist, well on his way to his dream job of sitting on the Supreme Court, when he was sidetracked for a term as the 27th U.S. president by his wife and Theodore ...
It is the “new light” as flashed by the brilliant Thomas Nelson Page and the Hon. William H. Taft that has caused Theodore Roosevelt to be one man as Governor of New York on the Negro question and another man as President of the United States upon the same question.
