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William Howard Taft
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| Order: | 27th President |
| Term of Office: | March 4, 1909– March 4, 1913 |
| Predecessor: | Theodore Roosevelt |
| Successor: | Woodrow Wilson |
| Date of Birth | September 15, 1857 |
| Place of Birth: | Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Date of Death: | March 8, 1930 |
| Place of Death: | Washington, D.C. |
| First Ladies: | Helen Herron Taft (wife)
Helen Taft Manning (daughter) |
| Profession: | lawyer |
| Political Party: | Republican |
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William Howard Taft I ( September 15, 1857– March 8, 1930) was the 27th PresidentThe President of the United States is the head of state of the United States. Under the U. Constitution, the President is also the chief executive of the federal government and commander in chief of the armed forces. Because of the superpower status of th of the United States ( 1909- 1913), and the 10th Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 - 1930).
1 Biography
He was born on September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Alphonso Taft and Louisa Torrey. A prominent Republican, Taft's father served as secretary of war under President Ulysses S. Grant. Like his father, the younger Taft went to college at Yale University, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, a "secret society" co-founded by his father. After college, he attended Cincinnati Law School . He subsequently began his political career in Ohio shortly after joining the bar in 1880.
In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft chair of a commission to organize a civilian government in the Philippines which had been ceded to the United States at the close of the Spanish-American War. From 1901 to 1904 Taft served successfully as the first civilian governor of the Philippines. In 1904 Theodore Roosevelt named Taft as Secretary of War.
Taft was also overweight, to the point that he became stuck in the bathtub in the White House several times, prompting the installation of a new bathtub capable of holding all of the men who installed it. At 6 feet, and weighing over 300 pounds, Taft was the largest and heaviest President.
