Taft, William Howard (1857-1930)

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United States Presidential Election (1912)

Statement Against Expanding the Navy, January 15, 1909 (summary)

Thirty Reasons Why Our Navy Should Not Be Enlarged, January 15, 1909

Address on the Second National Peace Congress, March 12, 1909 (excerpt)

Discuss Negroes Yearly, June 2, 1909

Statement on Labor Actions, January 2, 1912

Newer Aspects of the Peace Movement, May 19, 1912 (excerpts)

A Case to Watch, July 26, 1912

At Last a Genuinely Independent Newspaper, ca. August 1912

The Deserted Negro, August 1912

P. C. Allen to Jane Addams, August 6, 1912

Anonymous ("A believer in Women Suffrage) to Jane Addams, August 11, 1912

Erving Winslow to Jane Addams, August 12, 1912

William McCarthy to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

John G. Witt to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

Response to Mabel Thorp Boardman, August 14, 1912

Response to Mabel Thorp Boardman, August 15, 1912

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, August 16, 1912

G. H. Bastian to Jane Addams, August 26, 1912

Samuel McCune Lindsay to Jane Addams, September 3, 1912

Stephen Samuel Wise to Jane Addams, September 3, 1912

Harriet Taylor Upton to Frances Alice Kellor, September 6, 1912

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, September 8, 1912

Edward Thomas Devine to Jane Addams, September 11, 1912

Stephen S. Wise to Jane Addams, September 16, 1912

Ida Husted Harper to Jane Addams, September 25, 1912

Frances Alice Kellor to Jane Addams, ca. Oct. 1912

Jenkins Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, October 10, 1912

The Progressive's Dilemma: The New Party, November 1912

Politics and Persons, ca. November 1912

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 4, 1912

Gifford Pinchot to Theodore Roosevelt, December 17, 1912

Alfred Landon Baker to Jane Addams, January 7, 1913

Lucia Ames Mead to Jane Addams, January 17, 1913

Peace on Earth, December 1913 (fragment)

Jane Addams: Peace on Earth, December 1913

Neena Hamilton Pringsheim to American Chamber of Commerce Directors, December 11, 1914

Emma Pierce Cole to Jane Addams, March 6, 1915

Hamilton Holt, Fannie Fern Phillips Andrews, & Frederick Lynch to Jane Addams, July 23, 1915

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, July 23, 1915

Peace Campaign Abroad Clipping, August 2, 1915

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, September 21, 1915

Herman Jerome Schwartz to Jane Addams, September 27, 1915

Testimony Before the House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 11, 1916

Testimony before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, January 11, 1916 (fragment)

Questions for Neutrals, February 1916

Address on the League of Nations, February 11, 1919

The Potential Advantages of the Mandate System, May 13, 1921

The Potential Advantages of the Mandate System, July 1921

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Jane Addams to William Howard Taft, November 20, 1911

Jane Addams et al. to William Howard Taft, December 30, 1911

Announcement, Association pour la Sauvegarde du Droit es Gens, 1915

Jane Addams to William Howard Taft, November 27, 1924

William Howard Taft to Jane Addams, April 15, 1912

Protest Against Antisemitism, ca. February 3, 1921 (excerpt)

William Howard Taft to Jane Addams, November 28, 1924

William Howard Taft to Louise de Koven Bowen, November 30, 1924

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Birth Date

1857-09-15

Death Date

1930-03-08

Birthplace

Cincinnati, Ohio

Biographical Text

William Howard Taft was a politician and the 27th president of the United States. In 1908, Roosevelt announced he would not run for re-election, but that he wanted Taft to run instead. Taft was reluctant to run, but then eventually relented, and he eventually won the election. As president, Taft reorganized the State Department, enforced the Monroe Doctrine, avoided European affairs, and instituted Dollar Diplomacy in Latin America. He also remained interested in East Asian affairs. Domestically, Taft continued Roosevelt's Sherman Antitrust Act, bringing 70 cases in four years. By 1912, Taft and Roosevelt began to move apart in their beliefs, with Roosevelt becoming more progressive and Taft becoming more conservative. Taft won the nomination for the Republican candidate for president in 1912, leading Roosevelt to form the Progressive Party and also run for president. This split Republican voters and Woodrow Wilson won the election. Taft then became Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School, In 1920, Taft was appointed Chief Justice, and he served in this position from 1921 to 1930.

Taft married Helen Herron in 1886. They had three children together, and the eldest, Robert Taft, grew up to become a U.S. Senator. Taft died in 1930.