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Taft's older half-brother Charles, successful in business, supplemented Taft's government salary, allowing William and Nellie Taft and their family to live in comfort. Taft's duties involved hearing trials in the circuit, which included Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and participating with Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan ...
Mason called Taft's years in the White House "undistinguished". [148] Coletta deemed Taft to have had a solid record of bills passed by Congress, but felt he could have accomplished more with political skill. [149] On June 4, 1930, the U.S. Post Office issued a 4-cent postage stamp to commemorate William Howard Taft's life.
Most presidents of the United States received a college education, even most of the earliest.Of the first seven presidents, five were college graduates. College degrees have set the presidents apart from the general population, and presidents have held degrees even though it was quite rare and unnecessary for practicing most occupations, including law.
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]
Emma Willard (1787–1870), was a New York educator and writer who dedicated her life to women's education. She worked in several schools and founded the first school for women's higher education, the Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, which is now Emma Willard School. With the success of her school, she was able to travel across the ...
Entering the convention, Taft, buoyed by the support of the popular Roosevelt, was virtually assured of the nomination. [5] U.S. Senator Jacob H. Gallinger was among the supporters of a movement to stop Taft's nomination. [4] Taft won the presidential nomination on the first ballot, overcoming Fairbanks and the other favorite son candidates. [6]
School choice advocates are getting a champion for their cause in the Oval Office, bringing new possibilities for a movement that had largely been fighting at the state level for years.
The school was founded in 1890 as Mr. Taft's School (renamed to The Taft School in 1898) by Horace Dutton Taft, the brother of U.S. President William Howard Taft.Horace Taft's friend Sherman Day Thacher (the founder of California's Thacher School) inspired Taft to start his own boarding school.