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The governor of Texas is the head of government of the U.S. state of Texas. The incumbent, Greg Abbott, is the forty-eighth governor to serve in the office since Texas' statehood in 1845. When compared to those of other states, the governorship of Texas has been described as one of relative weakness.
White's ousting caused other career State Department employees to fear that their jobs might be lost to politics. Taft also wanted to replace the Roosevelt-appointed ambassador in London, Whitelaw Reid, but Reid, owner of the New-York Tribune, had backed Taft during the campaign, and both William and Nellie Taft enjoyed his gossipy reports ...
April 14 - Taft establishes the tradition of the president throwing the ceremonial first pitch. [18] April 22 - Leonard Wood takes office as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. April 25 - Taft nominates Charles Evans Hughes to the Supreme Court of the United States. May 2 - Horace Harmon Lurton is sworn in as an associate justice of the ...
The official residence of the Texas governor is the Texas Governor's Mansion, in Austin. The mansion was built in 1854 and has been the home of every governor since 1856. It is also one of the official workplaces for the governor. The governor's primary official workplace is located within the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
Presidential transition of William Howard Taft; Date of election: November 3, 1908: Inauguration date: March 4, 1909: President-elect: William Howard Taft : Vice president-elect: James S. Sherman (Republican) Outgoing president: Theodore Roosevelt (Republican) Outgoing vice president: Charles W. Fairbanks (Republican)
First president to appoint a former president (William Howard Taft) to the Supreme Court. [223] First president to give his inaugural address over an amplified system. [221] First president to own and install a radio in the White House. [221] First president to learn to drive a car. [224] First president to visit Canada while in office. [225]
Texas overwhelmingly voted for the Democratic nominee, former U.S. Representative William Jennings Bryan, over the Republican nominee, Secretary of War William Howard Taft. Bryan won Texas by a landslide margin of 51.62%. Bryan had previously won Texas against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900.
Early in 1908, the only two Republican contenders running nationwide campaigns for the presidential nomination were Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Governor Joseph B. Foraker, both of Ohio. In the nomination contest, four states held primaries to select national convention delegates .