Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Taft was appalled when, after Justice Lamar's death in January 1916, Wilson nominated Brandeis, whom Taft had never forgiven for his role in the Ballinger–Pinchot affair. [180] Within days of Brandeis's nomination, Taft began organizing opposition to it among the leadership of the American Bar Association. [ 181 ]
[2] [13] In the end, Taft defeated Bryan by 321 electoral votes to 162, [14] carrying all but three states outside the Democratic Solid South. He also won the popular vote by a comfortable margin, receiving 7,675,320 votes (51.6 percent) to Bryan's 6,412,294 (43.1 percent); Socialist Party candidate Eugene V. Debs won 420,793 votes (2.8 percent ...
Taft initially served as a state and federal judge, and as governor of the Philippines beginning in 1900. In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt made him Secretary of War. Taft declined repeated offers to become a Supreme Court justice. He was Roosevelt's hand-picked successor in 1908, and easily defeated William Jennings Bryan for the presidency.
Around this time, in the early 1980s, Taft split its operation into two "subdivisions": the "Taft Entertainment Company" (which included Hanna-Barbera, Ruby-Spears, Worldvision, the theme parks, Taft International Pictures, and Taft Entertainment Television), which was headed by Sy Fischer. [31] The other was the "Taft Television & Radio Co, Inc.".
William_Taft_video_montage.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 27 s, 480 × 360 pixels, 1.62 Mbps overall, file size: 5.11 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons . Information from its description page there is shown below.
The Taft family is an American political family of English descent, with origins in Massachusetts. [1] Its members have served in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, and the United States federal government, in various positions such as representative (two), governor of Ohio, governor of Rhode Island, senator (three), secretary of agriculture, attorney general ...
Bryan won Texas by a landslide margin of 51.62%. Bryan had previously won Texas against William McKinley in both 1896 and 1900 . With 73.97 percent of the popular vote, Texas would also prove to be Bryan's fourth strongest victory in terms of percentage in the popular vote only after South Carolina , Mississippi and Louisiana .
Taft defeated Bryan by a two-to-one (321 to 162) margin in the Electoral College and by a 52% to 43.5% margin in the popular vote. [7] Bryan did worse in 1908 than he did in both 1896 and 1900, carrying only the South, Oklahoma , Colorado , and Nevada (Bryan also won 6 of 8 electors in Maryland while losing the state to Taft by less than 0.30% ...