Taft, William Howard

9/15/1857

Cincinnati, Ohio

-27th U.S. Prsident, March, 1909 - March 3, 1913
-Assistant Prosecuring Attorney for Hamilton County, Ohio, 1881
-Appointed Collector of Internal Revenue for first U.S. district; resigned and formed law partnership, 1882
-Appointed to fill vacancy on Ohio Supreme Court; elected following year to continue for five-year term, 1887
-Appointed U.S. Solicitor General; then judge of Circuit Court of Appeals, 1890
-Appointed civil governor of Philippines, 1900-04
-Appointed Secretary of War, 1904
-Elected President, 1908
-Passed Payne-Alrich Act
-Appointed Chief Justice of Supreme Court
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-Republican

Yale and Cincinnati Law School
Admitted to Ohio bar

Atlas of the Presidents, by Donald E. Cooke
Buried in Arlington National Cemetary

-Professor of constitutional law at Yale

Alphonso Taft

Louisa Torrey

Helen Herron

Charles Phelps
Robert
Helen

American