Education:
Graduated from Yale College (1878);
Cincinnati Law School (1880)
Occupation:
Lawyer, public official
Religion:
Unitarian
Wife:
Helen
Herron (1861-1943), on June 19, 1886
Children:
Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953);
Helen
Herron Taft (1891-1987);
Charles Phelps Taft (1897-1983)
Father:
Alphonso Taft
Mother:
Louisa Maria Torrey Taft
Years in
office:
(March 4, 1909 to March 3, 1913)
Born:
September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio
Died:
March
8, 1930, in Washington, D.C.
Age at
death:
73
Elected
from:
Ohio
Political
Party:
Republican
Other Government
Positions:
Judge in Ohio Superior Court, 1887-90
U.S.
Solicitor General, 1890-92
U.S. Circuit Court Judge, 1892-1900
Governor
of the Philippines, 1901-04
Secretary of War, 1904-08 (under
T. Roosevelt)
Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court,
1921-30
Presidential
Salary:
$75,000/year
Vice
President:
James S. Sherman (1909-12)
Secretary of
State:
Philander C. Knox (1909-13)
Secretary of the
Treasury:
Franklin MacVeagh (1909-13)
Secretary of
War:
Jacob M. Dickinson (1909-11)
Henry L. Stimson (1911-13)
Attorney
General:
George W. Wickersham (1909-13)
Postmaster
General:
Frank H. Hitchcock (1909-13)
Secretary of the
Navy:
George von L. Meyer (1909-13)
Secretary of the
Interior:
Richard A. Ballinger (1909-11)
Walter Lowrie Fisher
(1911-13)
Secretary of
Agriculture:
James Wilson (1909-13)
Secretary of Commerce
and Labor:
Charles Nagel (1909-13)
Links /
Resources:
The White
House
William
Howard Taft National Historic Site
PO Box 1427