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The presidency of William Howard Taft began on March 4, 1909, when William Howard Taft was inaugurated as 27th president of the United States, and ended on March 4, 1913.. Taft was a Republican from
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) served from 1909 to 1913 as the 27th president of the United States and from 1921 to 1930 as the tenth chief justice of the United States, the only person to have held both offices.
June 25 - Taft signs the Federal Corrupt Practices Act, the Mann Act, and the Postal Savings Bank Act into law. June 27 - Robert A. Taft accidentally strikes a pedestrian with his car. President Taft offers compensation in addition to covering medical expenses. [21] July 2 - Taft sets aside nearly 8.5 million acres as federal land in Alaska. [22]
Dollar diplomacy of the United States, particularly during the presidency of William Howard Taft (1909–1913) was a form of American foreign policy to minimize the use or threat of military force and instead further its aims in Latin America and East Asia through the use of its economic power by guaranteeing loans made to foreign countries. [1]
The American Cincinnatus: [1] Like the famous Roman, he won a war, then became a private citizen instead of seeking power or riches as a reward. He became the first president general of the Society of the Cincinnati, formed by Revolutionary War officers who also "declined offers of power and position to return to his home and plough".
Much more than time separates the 27th president from the 45th: from their vastly different views on economics, to their conceptions of the presidency itself. President Taft, the Anti-Trump Skip ...
William Howard Taft also ... He recognized that the government — and the challenges facing the U.S. — had grown far beyond the point at which a President could micromanage affairs. Taft was ...
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 ...