Taft, William Howard

The son of Alfonso Taft, who served as Secretary of War and Attorney General of the United States.

Prior to being elected president, he held judicial and military posts (the peak of his career was the Minister of War), a close successor to Theodore Roosevelt , who in 1908 supported him as a future successor. He won the presidential election in 1908 , gaining 51.6% of the vote.

The Taft presidency was characterized by some strengthening of the role of the state in the economy.

In the 1912 presidential election, Roosevelt, whose relationship with Taft became tense, tried to run for office again, but the Republican Party rejected his ambitions and nominated Taft for a second term. Then T. Roosevelt created his own Progressive Party and ran for it. As a result of this dispersal of the republican electorate, both Taft, who finished third with 23.2% of the vote, and Roosevelt lost, and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was elected president.

In 1913–1921, professor of law and history of law at Yale University.

In 1921, Taft was elected President of the U.S. Supreme Court , becoming the only president (future or former) who served in that court. In this position, he took the oath of 30th US President Calvin Coolidge (in 1925 ) and 31st President Herbert Hoover (in 1929 ).

In early 1930, Taft began to experience hallucinations. On February 3, he resigned 33 days before his death (March 8, 1930), which came on the same day as the sudden death of US Supreme Court member Edward Terry Sanford. The tradition obliges members of the Supreme Court to attend the funeral of their colleagues, which led to a "logistical nightmare", requiring first a trip to Knoxville (Tennessee), to Sanford's funeral, and then to Washington for Taft's funeral ^{[2] [3]} .

Family

The eldest son is Robert , a senator.

The youngest son is Charles, mayor of Cincinnati.

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• Taft W. Dollar Diplomacy .