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In March 1909, President William Howard Taft began his administration by replacing Theodore Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior, James Rudolph Garfield, with Richard A. Ballinger, a former Mayor of Seattle who had served as Commissioner of the United States General Land Office (GLO) under Secretary Garfield. Ballinger's appointment was a ...
Taft v. Bowers: 278 U.S. 470 (1929) taxation of a gift of shares of stock under the Sixteenth Amendment (Chief Justice Taft did not participate) United States v. Schwimmer: 279 U.S. 644 (1929) denial of naturalization to a pacifist, overruled by Girouard v. United States (1946) Pocket Veto Case: 279 U.S. 655 (1929) constitutionality of the ...
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.
Controversies over conservation and over antitrust cases filed by the Taft administration served to further separate Taft and Roosevelt. Roosevelt challenged Taft at the 1912 Republican National Convention , but Taft was able to use his control of the party machinery to narrowly win his party's nomination.
William H. Kennedy, United States Attorney in San Diego, was dismissed by President Reagan after he mentioned that the CIA was involved in a smuggling case. (1982) [ 345 ] [ 346 ] Marjory Mecklenburg (R) Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Resources used travel funds to see her son's Denver Bronco games.
Elon Musk, William Howard Taft and Vivek Ramaswamy Credit - Musk: Jabin Botsford—The Washington Post/Getty Images; Taft: Library of Congress/Corbis/VCG/Getty Images; Ramaswamy: Michael M ...
The Taft Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft served as Chief Justice of the United States.Taft succeeded Edward Douglass White as Chief Justice after the latter's death, and Taft served as Chief Justice until his resignation, at which point Charles Evans Hughes was nominated and confirmed as Taft's replacement.
He departed Washington for Plains, Ga., at 56, the youngest president to leave office since William Howard Taft. Rosalynn was especially embittered by the election loss.