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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 ...
William Howard Taft, the 27th president of the United States, visited Bellingham, Mount Vernon and Burlington on Oct. 9, 1911 — the fourth president to visit Washington and to date the only president to visit Whatcom and Skagit counties while in office. It was a momentous occasion.
“I don’t know exactly what we are going to do,” Chief Justice William Howard Taft bewailed in exasperation. Once again, however, the court adopted a practice to preserve its institutional ...
William Howard Taft, Robert’s Dad, once said, “Too many people don’t care what happens so long as it doesn’t happen to them.” Be among those who care. Tagged 2024 election , Conservatism , Donald Trump
Supreme Court chief justice (and former president) William Howard Taft dedicated the monument before a crowd of 50,000 people, segregated by race, and which included a row of Union and Confederate ...
A particularly famous one shows former U.S. President William Howard Taft, dressed as a matronly, mustachioed housewife, pouring a watering can labeled with the word “patronage” over a bed of ...
