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Constructing a “policy of attraction,” Taft used his time in the Philippines to gain the trust of its people, include them (on a limited basis) in the political structures being put in place, and build an economic infrastructure.
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.
Between 1900 and 1913, Republican William Howard Taft maintained a keen interest in preserving a US imperial connection with the Philippines. Following defeat in his presidential reelection campaign of 1912, Taft
two chapters to Taft’s time in the Philippines.4 Minger’s work is a largely narrative and sympathetic account of Taft’s role in the Philippines during this time, which draws heavily from traditional biographical accounts such as Henry Pringle’s comprehensive 1939 work.5 Although Minger presents a cohesive summary of Taft’s
rule during this period over which the figure of William Howard Taft looms so large, from his first entrance into the Philippines as head of the Second Philippine Commission to the end of his term as President of the United States in 1913. After giving a sketch of Philippine society in its various
Motivated by a sense of duty, Taft set aside a promising judicial career to serve on the Second Philippine Commission (1900–1904) and as governor-general of the islands (1901–1903). These assignments transformed the one-time skeptic of imperialism into an ardent champion of US control over the Philippines.
William Howard Taft stood at the juncture of two traditions in American foreign policy: the Founders’ tradition, and the Progressives’. Taft’s recent predecessor Grover Cleveland understood the principles that should guide America in foreign affairs in essentially the same way as America’s Founders.
