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Born
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Went to Yale College
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine Colonial Colleges chartered before the American Revolution. -
left Yale College
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University of Cincinnati college of law
The University of Cincinnati College of Law was founded in 1833 as the Cincinnati Law School. It is the fourth oldest continuously running law school in the United States and a founding member of the Association of American Law Schools. -
admitted to the Ohio State Bar Association
The Ohio State Bar Association (OSBA) is a voluntary bar association for the state of Ohio. History. OSBA was founded on March 6, 1880. -
Married
Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft was the wife of William Howard Taft and the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 -
Robert A. Taft birth
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. -
became the youngest appointee as U.S. Solicitor General
The Solicitor General of the United States is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the United States Department of Justice. -
The birth of Helen Taft Manning
Helen Herron Taft Manning was an American professor of history and college dean. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron. -
Charles Phelps Taft II was born
Charles Phelps Taft II was a U.S. Republican Party politician and member of the Taft family. From 1955 to 1957, he served as Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio. Like other members of his family, Taft was a Republican for the purposes of statewide elections. -
Inaugurated
DescriptionThe inauguration of William Howard Taft as the 27th President of the United States was held on Thursday, March 4, 1909, in the Senate Chamber at the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C. -
1st US airplane sold commercially, by Glenn Curtiss for $5,000
Wright military flyer of 1909, an airplane built by Wilbur and Orville Wright and sold to the U.S. Army Signal Corps in July 1909. It was the world's first military airplane. -
Orville Wright tests 1st US Army airplane, flying 1h12m40s
The U.S. Army Signal Corps purchased a Wright Model A on 2 August 1909 which became the first military aircraft in history. -
US issues 1st Lincoln penny
In January 1909, the Mint engaged Brenner to design a cent depicting the late president Abraham Lincoln, 1909 being the centennial year of his birth. It was the first widely circulating design of a U.S. president on a coin, an idea that had been seen as too monarchical in the past, namely by George Washington. -
World's 1st air race held in Rheims France. Glenn Curtiss (USA) wins
When Glenn Curtiss edged Frenchman Louis Blériot at the world's first air race, in Reims, France, in August 1909, few Americans had seen an airplane, let alone an air race. Curtiss won them the opportunity. -
Taft sets aside some 3 million acres of oil-rich public land (including Teapot Dome, Wyoming) for conservation purposes
During his single term, Taft initiated more antitrust suits than Roosevelt and was also active in conservation. Taft obtained legislation removing millions of acres of Federal land from public sale; rescinded his predecessor's order to reserve certain lands as possible public dam sites, but ordered a study to determine what acreage should be protected; formed a Bureau of Mines in the Department of the Interior to safeguard mineral deposits; supported a bond issue to undertake irrigation project. -
Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
Other governmental agencies began encroaching on the Navy's property in Honolulu, the decision was made to begin shifting activities to Pearl Harbor. In 1909, Naval Station, Pearl Harbor was created and construction began on the first drydock the following year. Over the next ten years, the base grew steadily with new facilities being constructed and the channels and lochs deepened to accommodate the Navy's largest ships. -
US National Institute of Arts & Letters incorporated by Congress
The American Academy of Arts and Letters is a 250-member honor society; its goal is to "foster, assist, and sustain excellence" in American literature, music, and art. -
William H. Taft is first US President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
A huge (300-plus pounds) fan, Taft threw out the first ball on April 14, 1910, from a box seat before the then-Washington Nationals played the Philadelphia Athletics. -
The US Congress pass the Mann-Elkins Act, an important piece of railroad reform legislation
The 1910 Mann-Elkins Act was a federal law passed during the Progressive Movement that extended the 1887 Interstate Commerce Act and the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) to set railroad rates and regulate the telecommunications industry. -
US postal savings bank inaugurated
An Act of Congress of June 25, 1910, established the Postal Savings System in designated Post Offices, effective January 1, 1911. The legislation aimed to get money out of hiding, attract the savings of immigrants accustomed to saving at Post Offices in their native countries, provide safe depositories for people who had lost confidence in banks, and furnish more convenient depositories for working people. -
1st photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
From the first clumsy flights and fuzzy photos, airplane photography developed rapidly into a precise and useful tool for looking at Earth. Surveyors, mappers, geologists, resource managers, urban planners, and military strategists have all come to rely on the airplane view of our world. Beyond these practical uses, however, air photographs reveal landscapes of beauty and symmetry that go undetected on the ground level. -
Victor Berger (Wisc) becomes 1st socialist congressman in US
Victor Luitpold Berger was a founding member of the Social Democratic Party of America and its successor, the Socialist Party of America. -
16th Amendment ratified
The Sixteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution allows Congress to levy an income tax without apportioning it among the states on the basis of population. -
Left Office
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17th Amendment ratified
The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two Senators from each State, elected by the people thereof, for six years; and each Senator shall have one vote. The electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislatures. -
co-founded the League for Enforced Peace
The League to Enforce Peace was an American organization established in 1915 to promote the formation of an international body for world peace. It was formed in Philadelphia by American citizens concerned by the outbreak of World War I in Europe. -
Became Chief Justice of U.S. supreme court
The presiding member of a nation's Supreme Court system. In some nations, a Chief Justice gains his or her position through seniority, while in other nations (including the United States) it is a position to which an individual must be nominated and appointed. -
Died
In poor health, he resigned in February 1930 and died the following month. -
Buried
He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, the first president and first Supreme Court justice to be interred there.
