Who was William Howard Taft?

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What did he do?

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He was an American politician, the 27th President of the United States, the 10th Chief Justice of the United States, a leader of the progressive conservative wing of the Republican Party in the early 20th century, a chaired professor at Yale Law School, a pioneer in international arbitration, and a staunch advocate of world peace that verged on pacifism (although the pacifists of his time did not call him one of their own).

Taft served as Solicitor General of the United States, a federal judge, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War before being nominated for President in the 1908 Republican National Convention with the backing of his predecessor and close friend Theodore Roosevelt.

His presidency was characterized by trust-busting, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, expanding the civil service, establishing a better postal system, and promoting world peace. Roosevelt broke with Taft in 1911, charging Taft was too reactionary. Taft and the conservatives were alarmed at Roosevelt's attacks on the judiciary, and took control of the party machinery. Taft defeated Roosevelt for the Republican nomination in a bruising battle in 1912 that forced Roosevelt out of the GOP and left Taft people in charge for decades. In 1921, he became Chief Justice. He is the only President to have been the Solicitor General or to have served on the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Answer 2

William Howard Taft

Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial, conscientious, he was caught in the intense battles between Progressives and conservatives, and got scant credit for the achievements of his administration.

Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. He rose in politics through Republican judiciary appointments, through his own competence and availability, and because, as he once wrote facetiously, he always had his "plate the right side up when offices were falling."

But Taft much preferred law to politics. He was appointed a Federal circuit judge at 34. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen Herron Taft, held other ambitions for him

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William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the US and a chief Justice of the Supreme Court until his death in 1930 He was governor general of the Philippines and was Theodore Roosevelt's hand picked successor He was only a one term president but he received his dream job by being a Supreme Court justice.

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He was the 27th president of the United States. Check the link below for historical information. You can also google him. There are a lot of web sites with info about him.

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He was a President of the United States for one thing.

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One of his most famous accomplishments was being America's fattest president, also famous for actually getting stuck in his bathtub.

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This r the website.

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US President as well as the name of my highschool- lol It's in the northwest side of Chicago (ChiTown!) =)

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Check this site, it's one of the best!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Howard_Taft

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One of our US presidents.