William Howard Taft served as a governor of the Philippines when it was under US control and later became US president. Taft Avenue in Metro Manila, Philippines is named after him.
The Philippine commission was establish after the Spanish-American War. Appointed by te President of the uS, it had legislative and some limited executive functions. The Jones Act of 1916 replaced is with an elected Philippine Seante. The head of the first Philippine Commission, established in 1899, was Dr. Jacob Schurman, president of Cornell University. The head of the Seconf Philippine Commission (also called the Taft Commission), appointed in March 1900, was William Howard Taft.
The father of William Howard Taft (1857-1930), 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, was Alphonso Taft, a prominent Republican who served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant The father of William Howard Taft III (1915-1991), US Ambassador to Ireland, was Robert Alphonso Taft. The father of William Howard Taft IV, was William Howard Taft III.
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Secretaries for War under Taft were Jacob M. Dickinson of TN (1909-1911) and Henry L. Stimson of NT (1911-1913).
Taft was the heaviest president in US history.
William H. Taft was 27th US President, serving from 1909-1913.
Yes. William Howard Taft, the 27th US President, was governor Bob Taft's great-grandfather.
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When Wm. H. Taft became President, US population was: 90,494,000.
The Taft-Katsura Agreement.