27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
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The only person to serve both as president and chief justice of the Supreme Court — though he wanted the robes far more than the Oval Office and spent years declining appointments to get the politics done first.
Born in Cincinnati in 1857 to a father who'd been attorney general and war secretary, Taft shot through the legal ranks — judge in his twenties, solicitor general, appellate court — before Theodore Roosevelt sent him to govern the Philippines in 1901 and then made him secretary of war. He rode Roosevelt's backing to the presidency in 1908, beating William Jennings Bryan, but the term unraveled: tariff fights, a split between conservative and progressive Republicans, and a bitter break with Roosevelt himself over conservation and antitrust policy. The 1912 race became a three-way brawl when Roo…
Sourced, dated quotes from William Howard Taft
Socialism proposes no adequate substitute for the motive of enlightened selfishness that to-day is at the basis of all human labor and effort, enterprise and new activity.
The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to modern ideas of commercial intercourse.
I love judges, and I love courts. They are my ideals, that typify on earth what we shall meet hereafter in heaven under a just God.
One of the marvelous things about him is that he is strong enough to force the men who dislike him the most to stand by him.
I am in favor of helping the prosperity of all countries because, when we are all prosperous, the trade of each becomes more valuable to the other.
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