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birth of taft
father: Alphonso Taft
Mother: Louisa Maria Torrey Taft -
married Helen Herron
The couple had 3 Children: Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953); Helen Herron Taft (1891-1987); Charles Phelps Taft (1897-1983) -
graduated from Yale
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Judge in Ohio Superior Court
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U.S. Solicitor General
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U.S. Circuit Court Judge
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Governor of the Philippines
Sent to the Philippines as chief administrator Where he improved the economy built roads and schools -
Secretary of War (under T. Roosevelt)
Taft spent his time as secretary of war overseeing the Panama canal and visiting Cuba. -
elected president
Nellie Taft and Rosevelt had to persuade Taft to run -
Taft is renominated for president.
Taft and Rosevelt, old friends, battled for a seat in the white house but both lost to Wilson handily -
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court
the only president to be chief justice on the supreme court. As chief justice, Taft expanded federal power. He upheld the president’s power to dismiss federal officials without the Senate’s approval.