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William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) served as the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.
Listed below are executive orders numbered 1051–1743 and presidential proclamations signed by United States President William Howard Taft (1909–1913). He issued 724 executive orders. [8] His executive orders are also listed on Wikisource, along with his presidential proclamations. Signature of William Howard Taft
Signed into law by President William Howard Taft on May 16, 1910 Federal Mines Safety Act of 1910 was a United States statute passed for the purposes of establishing the United States Bureau of Mines as a federal agency of the United States Department of the Interior .
On June 4, 1930, the U.S. Post Office issued a 4-cent postage stamp to commemorate William Howard Taft's life. Roosevelt engraved in public memory the image of Taft as a Buchanan -like figure, with a narrow view of the presidency which made him unwilling to act for the public good.
Taft also journeyed to the United Kingdom in 1922, to study the procedural structure of British courts. When approved in 1925, "the Judges Bill", as it was known, dramatically shrank the number of cases coming directly to the court, yet retained a mandatory oversight on cases that raised questions involving federal jurisdiction.
The Mann–Elkins Act, also called the Railway Rate Act of 1910, was a United States federal law that strengthened the authority of the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) over railroad rates. The law also expanded the ICC's jurisdiction to include regulation of telephone , telegraph and wireless companies, and created a commerce court.
Signed into law by President William Howard Taft on June 25, 1910 Newspaper clip: "Wanted 60,000 girls to take the place of 60,000 white slaves who will die this year" The Mann Act , previously called the White-Slave Traffic Act of 1910 , is a United States federal law, passed June 25, 1910 (ch. 395, 36 Stat. 825 ; codified as amended at 18 U.S ...
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 ...