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Future president is born
William H Taft was born in Cincinnati Ohio. -
William H Taft graduates high school
William graduates high school 2nd in his class with a 91.5 out of 100 gpa -
William H Taft graduates college
William graduated with a bachelors to be a lawyer -
William H Taft gets a new job
William gets a job as a lawyer -
William gets a promotion
after becoming a lawyer William gets appointed as a judge as he is still in his 20's -
William runs for president
William runs for president against William Jennings Bryan -
William H Taft is the new president
William ran for president and won -
William H Taft is inaugurated
William takes the oath as president -
Taft's first message to congress
Taft proposes a two percent tax on the income of all corporations except banks, which he believes will make up for revenue lost -
calling for the 16th amendment
The Senate passes a resolution calling for the Sixteenth Amendment to the Constitution -
warships sent out
Taft sends 2 warships in response to the 500 who died in Nicaragua -
new general of the army
Taft appoints General Leonard Wood as Chief of Staff of the Army. -
New supreme court member
Taft elevates circuit judge Horace H. Lurton to the Supreme Court -
Taft fires Gifford Pinchot
Taft fires the head of the United States Forest Services, Gifford Pinchot. -
Taft appoints Hughes to the supreme court
Taft appoints Governor Charles Hughes of New York to the supreme court -
the mann act
congress passes the Mann act also known as the white slave traffic act -
democrats win
Democrats win control of the house of representatives for the first time since 1894 -
Taft appoints new chief justice
Taft appoints Associate Chief Justice Edward White as Chief Justice of the supreme court -
Saving the seals
The United States and Britain sign a treaty guaranteeing the protection of pelagic fur seals in Bering waters -
Mobilizing the Mexican border
Taft orders the mobilization of 20,000 American soldiers along the Mexican border -
Taft appoints Secretary of War
Taft appoints Henry Stimson secretary of war to replace Jacob Dickinson -
American Tobacco Co dissolved
The Supreme Court finds the American Tobacco Company in violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act and orders its dissolution -
New Mexico becomes a state
New Mexico is admitted as the forty-seventh state -
Vice President John Sherman dies
Vice President John Sherman dies -
Wilson defeats Taft
Democrat Woodrow Wilson defeats Taft and in the 1912 presidential election -
Taft vetoes literacy tests
Taft vetoes a bill calling for literacy tests for immigrants -
Huerta overthrows Madero
General Victoriano Huerta overthrows Mexican President Madero. Taft refuses to intervene -
Sixteenth Amendment ratified
The Sixteenth Amendment, originally passed in Congress on July 2, 1909, is finally ratified -
Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Act
congress passes the Webb-Kenyon Interstate Liquor Act which prohibits the shipment of liquor into “dry” states -
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated
Woodrow Wilson is inaugurated as the twenty-eighth President of the United States. Taft leaves Washington for a vacation in Augusta, Georgia
