William Howard Taft27th President of the United

StatesBy Jordan Alley

Early Life

Born September 1857.

Louisa Maria Torrey and Alphonso Taft

Attended Yale College

University of Cincinnati College of Law

Married High School Sweetheart

Three Children

Preferred Law, not Politics

Early Life Entered Politics

Became a judge at the Ohio Superior Court

County prosecutor

State judge

U.S Solicitor General

U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals

Became Governor general of the Philippines

Roosevelt offers Taft to become Secretary of War

Roosevelt announces Taft as his successor

Taft runs for presidency

Presidency Election of 1908

Presidency Stuck in the bathtub myth

Not following Roosevelt’s policies

Dollar Diplomacy

Trust-Busting

Roosevelt wanted revenge

Fought for the republican nomination

Bull Moose Party

Election of 1912

PresidencyElection of 1912

Post-Presidency Lost 240lbs

Yale University Law School

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Judge’s Act of 1925

Died March 8th 1930

Post-Presidency Courthouses in Ohio were named after him

Streets in Cincinnati

A school in California

A major street in the Philippines

Robert Taft Jr. became a senator in Ohio

William Howard Taft III became ambassador to Ireland

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videos/theodore-roosevelt-bull-moose-party-12663875798 http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/gildedage/

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