William Howard Taft CG

  • Birth

    Birth
    Born in Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Education

    Education
    graduated from Yale University in 1878
    graduated from Cincinnati Law School in 1880
  • Jobs or Careers

    Jobs or Careers
    William Taft became a lawyer before presidency and shortly after became a judge.
  • Marriage

    Marriage
    married to Helen Herron Taft in 1886
    Helen was the first woman of the United States from 1909-1913
  • Birth of Children

    Birth of Children
    Robert Alphonso Taft
  • Birth of Children

    Birth of Children
    Helen Herron Taft
  • Birth of Children

    Birth of Children
    Charles Phelps Taft ll
  • Date elected to office

    Date elected to office
    William Taft was elected president
  • News worthy events while in office

    News worthy events while in office
    Taft inaugurated, William takes the takes office becoming the 27th president
  • Jobs or Careers

    Jobs or Careers
    William Taft became president after being nominated in June 1921.
  • Programs developed

    Programs developed
    When William Taft became president he was determined to continue Roosevelt's program.
  • Political Party

    Political Party
    republican party
  • Programs developed

    Programs developed
    William Taft sends a message to Congress urging prompt revision on the tariff.
  • Programs developed

    Programs developed
    William Taft negotiated with China. He requested that China would grant American inventors a share of a loan.
  • Laws developed

    Laws developed
    William Taft signed the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act. It establishes a Tariff Board and reduces the tariff.
  • News worthy events while in office

    News worthy events while in office
    William Taft ordered two U.S. warships to Nicaragua in response to the 500 deaths in revolutionaries.
  • News worthy events while in office

    News worthy events while in office
    William Taft fired the head of the United States Forest services, Gifford Pinchot.
  • Laws developed

    Laws developed
    Taft signed the Postal Savings Bank Act. It allowed one bank in each state, under federal supervision, to give 2% interest to accounts under $500.
  • Acts developed

    Acts developed
    Congress passed the Mann Act also known as the "white slave traffic act".
  • News worthy events while in office

    News worthy events while in office
    William Taft appoints Governor Charles Hughes of New York to the Supreme Court.
  • Programs developed

    Programs developed
    William Taft appoints Associate Justice Edward White as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
  • News worthy events in office

    News worthy events in office
    William Taft orders are mobilization of 20000 American soldiers along the Mexican border.
  • Laws developed

    Laws developed
    Taft developed the Panama Canal Act
  • Post-Presidency

    Post-Presidency
    Date that William Howard Taft left office
  • Jobs or Careers

    Jobs or Careers
    tenth justice of the United States
  • New worthy events after William Taft left office

    New worthy events after William Taft left office
    Taft went back to Yale as a professor
  • Post-Presidency

    Post-Presidency
    The location that Taft retired to was California
  • Death

    Death
    Taft died on March 8, 1930.
  • Sickness

    Sickness
    William Taft died of a sickness called Cardiovascular disease, which is a type of heart disease, also of high blood pressure, and inflammation of the bladder.
  • Buried

    Buried
    William Taft was buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia.