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William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth chief justice of the United States, serving from 1921 to 1930, the only person to have held both offices.
01. William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, into a family with a strong political background. 02. He was the first president to also serve as a Supreme Court Justice. 03. Taft weighed over 300 pounds, making him the heaviest president in U.S. history.
On March 4, 1909, William Howard Taft was inaugurated as the 27th President of the United States. Succeeding Theodore Roosevelt, Taft took the oath of office...
The Prison Ships Martyrs Monument was dedicated in a ceremony led by President William Howard Taft in 1908. The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia opened in 1921.
Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft had each been President of the United States. And they’d been feuding for years. Taft had been Roosevelt’s Secretary of War, and the two men became personal friends. In 1908, when Roosevelt decided to step down after two terms, he hand-picked Taft as his successor.
Posteriormente, William Howard Taft, sucesor de Roosevelt, mandó construir la Oficina Oval, el despacho del presidente. La Casa Blanca cuenta con 132 habitaciones, 35 baños y seis pisos. El edificio cuenta con 412 puertas, 147 ventanas, 28 chimeneas, ocho escaleras y tres elevadores.
27. On April 14, 1910, William Howard Taft threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a game between the Washington Senators and the Philadelphia Athletics. Taft threw the ball to a pitcher — not the catcher like today — and returned the next year to throw the pitch again.
