William Howard Taft

Introduction

27th president of the United States (1909-13) and 10th head fairness of the United States (1921-30). As the alternative of President Theodore Roosevelt to do well him and convey on the progressive Republican agenda, Taft as president alienated the progressives—and subsequent Roosevelt—thereby contributing greatly to the divide in Republican ranks in 1912, to the formation of the Bull Moose Party (also renowned as the Progressive Party), and to his humiliating beat that year in his tender for a second term. (For a consideration of the annals and nature of the presidency, presidency of the United States of America.)

Discussion

Taft became assistant prosecutor in Hamilton County Ohio upon graduation. He assisted in that capacity until 1882 and then performed regulation in Cincinnati. He became a referee in 1887, U.S. lawyer general in 1890, and referee of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court in 1892. He educated regulation from 1896-1900. He was Commissioner and then Governor-General of the Philippines (1900-1904). He then was Secretary of War under President Roosevelt (1904-08).

Becoming the President

In 1908, Taft was sustained by Roosevelt to run for president. He became the Republican nominee with James Sherman as his Vice President. He was opposed by William Jennings Bryan. The campaign was about character more than issues. Taft won with 52% of the well liked vote.

The child of Alphonso Taft, secretary of conflict and advocate general (1876-77) under President Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa Maria Torrey, Taft graduated second in his Yale class of 1878 revised regulation and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880. Drawn to politics in the Republican Party, he assisted in some secondary appointive agencies until 1887, when he was entitled to fill the unfinished period of a referee of the better court of Ohio.

The next year he was voted into agency to a five-year period of his own, the only time he ever attained agency by well liked ballot other than his election to the presidency. From 1892 to 1900 he assisted as a referee of the United States Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, where he made some conclusions hostile to coordinated labor. He supported the use of an injunction to halt a hit by railroad employees, and he declared illegal the use of a secondary boycott. On the other hand, he supported the privileges of employees to coordinate, to connect a union, and to hit, and he expanded the power of the injunction to enforce antitrust laws. (Judson 66)

Taft resigned his judgeship on March 15, 1900, to accept designation by President William McKinley to assist as head individual of the Second Philippine Commission. Charged with coordinating municipal government in the isles next the Spanish-American War (1898), Taft brandished considerable gifts as a boss and administrator. In 1901 he became the first citizen governor of the Philippines, concentrating in that post on the economic development of the islands.

Fond of and very well liked amidst the Philippine people, Taft two times refused to depart the isles when offered designation to the Supreme ...