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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.
Frederic L. Paxson, writing in The Mississippi Valley Historical Review in 1915, noted that "although this book gives only the lighter and less controversial elements of [William Howard Taft's] career, and although it is based largely upon recollection and inaccurate domestic sources, it is full testimony as to the quality of the Taft family." [8]
Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft (née Herron; June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished to become first lady.
William Howard Taft III was born on August 7, 1915, and was the eldest of four sons born to Robert A. Taft (1889–1953) and Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889–1958), [3] daughter of Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859–1910), the former solicitor general of the United States from 1909 to 1910.
William Howard Taft: A Resource Guide from the Library of Congress; Extensive essay on William Howard Taft and shorter essays on each member of his cabinet and the First Lady – Miller Center of Public Affairs "Life Portrait of William Howard Taft", from C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits, September 6, 1999
One of the first presidents to take up a club was William Howard Taft, who served from 1909 to 1913. ... But Taft isn't the only president with an ardent love for the game. Throughout U.S. history ...
Taft and his wife, Helen Herron Taft, had growing children, and Taft was a notoriously large eater; accordingly, Mooly Wooly was replaced by Pauline Wayne. Wisconsin senator Isaac Stephenson bought Pauline Wayne for Mrs. Taft. [ 2 ] The four-year-old cow was pregnant and gave birth to a male calf named "Big Bill" (after the President), which ...
She married Alphonso Taft, widowed in 1852, on December 26, 1853 in Millbury, Massachusetts, becoming stepmother to his two living sons by his first wife, Fanny Phelps: Charles Phelps Taft, who became the publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star and was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives from 1895 to 1897, and Peter Rawson "Rossy" Taft.