BBorn September LLouisa Maria Torrey and Alphonso Taft AAttended Yale College  University of Cincinnati College of Law MMarried High School Sweetheart TThree Children PPreferred Law, not Politics

 Entered Politics  Became a judge at the Ohio Superior Court  County prosecutor  State judge  U.S Solicitor General  U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals  Became Governor general of the Philippines  Roosevelt offers Taft to become Secretary of War  Roosevelt announces Taft as his successor  Taft runs for presidency

Election of 1908

 Stuck in the bathtub myth  Not following Roosevelt’s policies  Dollar Diplomacy  Trust-Busting  Roosevelt wanted revenge  Fought for the republican nomination  Bull Moose Party  Election of 1912

Election of 1912

 Lost 240lbs  Yale University Law School  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court  Judge’s Act of 1925  Died March 8 th 1930

 Courthouses in Ohio were named after him  Streets in Cincinnati  A school in California  A major street in the Philippines  Robert Taft Jr. became a senator in Ohio  William Howard Taft III became ambassador to Ireland

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