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e. 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 ...
1857–1930. William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Known for his legal expertise, he held many significant positions, including Governor-General of the Philippines and Secretary of War.
Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan. The incumbent in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt. His second term expired at noon on March 4, 1909.
Presidential Addresses and State Papers; vol. 1 from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1910 by William Howard Taft
Taft’s opinion in Myers remains one of the landmark decisions on the removal power. In his opinion Taft surveyed the entire history of the removal power debate from the First Congress in 1789 through the late nineteenth century.
William Howard Taft : Yale professor of law & New Haven citizen ; an academic interlude in the life of the twenty-seventh president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the Supreme Court / by Frederick C. Hicks Alternative Title Yale law library publications ; no. 10 Creator
A Republican and the son of former president William Howard Taft, Robert Taft was a critic of the internationalist and interventionist foreign policy that characterized the presidencies of Harry Truman (1884–1972) and Dwight Eisenhower (1890–1969).
