What are some of William Taft’s contributions to history?
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His administration initiated 80 antitrust suits and Congress submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators. A postal savings system was established, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates.
Taft was never comfortable with being President. Taft, after leaving the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930. To Taft, the appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don’t remember that I ever was President."
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August 31st, 2009 at 2:57 pm
Go to Wikipedia and access the article on Taft.
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August 31st, 2009 at 3:31 pm
He was secretary of war replacing Elihu S. Root who had moved to state department. TR told him to become it. He knew he could never be like TR.
he never wanted to be the president but his wife Nellie at 17 had expressed to him how she would wish he would become one. All he had wanted to be was the supreme court justice chief.
email me if you need more i have a whole section of my notebook dedicated to this man.
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My eighth grade teacher who teaches us every fucking thing there is to know about history.
August 31st, 2009 at 4:20 pm
His administration initiated 80 antitrust suits and Congress submitted to the states amendments for a Federal income tax and the direct election of Senators. A postal savings system was established, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates.
Taft was never comfortable with being President. Taft, after leaving the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930. To Taft, the appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don’t remember that I ever was President."
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamhowardtaft/
August 31st, 2009 at 4:55 pm
He had a quite successful career even though his presidency we viewed as a unsuccessful. He is the only president to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He loved baseball and was the first president to throw out the first pitch at a major league baseball game. Among his accomplishments cited from the White House official website on presidents are as follows.
His route to the White House was via administrative posts. President McKinley sent him to the Philippines in 1900 as chief civil administrator. Sympathetic toward the Filipinos, he improved the economy, built roads and schools, and gave the people at least some participation in government.
President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and by 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. The Republican Convention nominated him the next year.
Taft alienated many liberal Republicans who later formed the Progressive Party, by defending the Payne-Aldrich Act which unexpectedly continued high tariff rates. A trade agreement with Canada, which Taft pushed through Congress, would have pleased eastern advocates of a low tariff, but the Canadians rejected it. He further antagonized Progressives by upholding his Secretary of the Interior, accused of failing to carry out Roosevelt’s conservation policies.
Taft, free of the Presidency, served as Professor of Law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief Justice of the United States, a position he held until just before his death in 1930. To Taft, the appointment was his greatest honor; he wrote: "I don’t remember that I ever was President."
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August 31st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
not much, his presidency was unsuccessful because he was always in Teddy Roosevelt’s shadow. however he did contribute a new, pool sized bathtub to the white house, after having to by pried out of the old one because of his excessive weight he decided to have a new, much bigger one put in=)
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this history channellll