After leaving office, Taft returned to Yale as a professor, continuing his political activity and working against war through the League to Enforce Peace. In ...
William Howard Taft
27th U.S. President
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices. Wikipedia
Born: September 15, 1857, Cincinnati, OH
Died: March 8, 1930 (age 72 years), Washington, D.C.
Presidential term: March 4, 1909 – March 4, 1913
Previous offices: Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930), President of the United States (1909–1913), Provisional Governor of Cuba (1906–1906), and more
President number: 27
Party: Republican Party
Spouse: Helen Herron Taft (m. 1886–1930)
Show more
Show less
People also ask
Did Taft go to Yale?
Why was Taft buried in a piano box?
What university did Taft go to?
Which president graduated from Yale in 1878?
There is no building at Yale named for William Howard Taft, Class of 1878, the first alumnus of the university to serve as president of the United States. But ...
Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. ... Taft and an eastern conservative ...
Jan 23, 2024 · Anthony Kronman '75, Sterling Professor Law at Yale Law School, wrote, “Robert Post's long-awaited history of the Taft Court is a masterpiece — ...
William Howard Taft, 27th president of the United States and chief justice of the United States, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. Taft attended Yale University ...
At Yale University, Taft followed his father's advice to refrain from athletics lest his participation impede his academic progress. He graduated second in ...
May 28, 2024 · Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa Maria Torrey, Taft graduated second in his Yale class of 1878, studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in ...
In the spring of 1913, William Howard Taft, Class of 1878, and the first Yale graduate to serve as president of the United States, was nursing some wounds ...
At age fifty-five, free of the presidency, Taft took a position teaching law at Yale where he remained until 1921 when President Warren Harding made him chief ...
