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Life and Highlights of William Taft - College Papers

Life and Highlights of William Taft

Life and Highlights of William Taft

By Manuel Lucero

William Howard Taft, born September 15, 1857, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. -- died March 8, 1930, Washington, D.C., 27th president of the United States (1909 - 13) and 10th chief justice of the United States [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/616563/United-States] (1921 - 30). As the choice of Pres. Theodore Roosevelt [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/509347/Theodore-Roosevelt] to succeed him and carry on the progressive Republican agenda, Taft as president alienated the progressives -- and later Roosevelt -- thereby contributing greatly to the split in Republican ranks in 1912, to the formation of ...

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http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/635532/] and attorney general [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/42316/attorney-general] (1876 - 77) under Pres. Ulysses S. Grant [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/241766/Ulysses-S-Grant], and Louisa Maria Torrey, Taft graduated second in his Yale class of 1878, studied law [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/332745/], and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880. Drawn to politics in the Republican Party [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/498842/Republican-Party], he served in several minor appointive offices until 1887, when he was named to fill the unfinished term of a judge of the superior court of Ohio. The following year he was elected to a five-year term of his own, the only time he ever attained office [HYPERLINK: http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/425680/] via popular vote other than his election to the presidency. From 1892 to 1900 he served as a ...

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