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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 defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson after ...
US first lady Helen Taft, who had lived in the Philippines while her husband William Howard Taft Luneta Park was civilian governor general in the Philippines, wanted to have a public space in DC similar to Luneta where people could meet for social gatherings. Her husband was elected president of the United States in 1908. ADVERTISEMENT.
Senator Taft was the son of former President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, a devoted former member of Herbert Hoover’s staff, and an Isolationist who hinted that FDR had encouraged the Japanese to attack Pearl Harbor as a way of inducing America to enter the war against Germany.
During his presidency, he groomed his close ally William Howard Taft to succeed him in the 1908 presidential election. Roosevelt grew frustrated with Taft's conservatism and belatedly tried and failed to win the 1912 Republican presidential nomination.
William Howard Taft Memorial. 1991 / William T. Moore III / Cincinnati. Portrait figure of William Howard Taft dressed in the robes of Chief Justice. His proper left arm is bent and holds a book close to his body. His proper right arm hangs at his side.
Shortly after the formal organization of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists on May 21, 1863, Ellen White reported receiving the so-called “Comprehensive Health Reform Vision.”. Accordingly, Adventists had a religious duty in matters of nutrition but also more broadly in personal and communal health.
A New York Times article that marked its 1964 closing reported that in its 61 years in service, “President William Howard Taft, Diamond Jim Brady, soldiers and sailors, Ziegfeld girls, and ...
