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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 ...
The 1908 United States presidential election was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.. The incumbent in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1909. Incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt honored his promise not to ...
William Howard Taft was lauded as a champion of the anti-tipping campaign when he ran for president in 1908. John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie both were notoriously stingy tippers...
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt lost the Republican Party’s presidential nomination to William Howard Taft (see “The New Nationalism” and “The Right of the People to Rule”). Roosevelt broke from the party to form the “Bull Moose” Progressive Party.
Roosevelt settled on his Secretary of War, William Howard Taft, who had ably served under Presidents Harrison, McKinley, and Roosevelt. Roosevelt and Taft had been friends since 1890, and Taft had consistently supported Roosevelt's policies.
It took a constitutional amendment (proposed in 1909 by a Republican, President William Howard Taft!) to bring back the income tax.
The U.S. president, William Howard Taft, sent marines to protect American banana investments, which by this time had grown considerably, with three companies exploiting this Honduran product. All three made large capital outlays in the form of improved port facilities, railroads, workers’ settlements, and similar developments.
