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Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial, ...
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Angry politics diminished appreciation for Taft's many achievements. He signed the first tariff revision since 1897; established a postal savings system ...
Oct 29, 2009 · How President Taft Established Income Tax. Republican president William H. Taft successfully advocated for a permanent, national income tax.
His program takes American progressivism in a new direction, endorsing conservation, control of trusts, labor protection, and a graduated income tax. It also ...
May 28, 2024 · In 1901 he became the first civilian governor of the Philippines, concentrating in that post on the economic development of the islands. Fond of ...
In 1930, he was appointed chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. As president, Taft had very substantial Progressive accomplishments. He filed twice as many ...
Historians acknowledge that William Howard Taft had a challenging task as President: living up to the legacy of Theodore Roosevelt.
As Governor of the Philippines, Taft: Built infrastructure and hospitals. Purchased land from the Catholic Church to redistribute to the people. Created a ...
Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House.
Taft accepted defeat gracefully. From 1913 to 1921 he was the Kent Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale. He also wrote extensively and lectured on the ...
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