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    Taft was the 27th president and spent four years in office 1909-1913. He was committed to lowering tariffs, and when elected, called a special session of the Congress to this end. His Failures were dismissing Chief Forester of the united states, Gifford pinchot, who was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

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    Taft was the 27th president and spent four years in office 1909-1913. He was committed to lowering tariffs, and when elected, called a special session of the Congress to this end. His Failures were dismissing Chief Forester of the united states, Gifford pinchot, who was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

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    William Howard Taft

    By Tasheanna

    Williams

    About William H. Taft


    He was born in 1857 to a well to-do judge, graduated from Yale, he then returned to Cincinnati,OH and practiced law. He like law more than politics and at 34 became a Federal circuit judge. He was Secretary of War for President Theodore Roosevelt, and in 1908 the Republican Convention nominated him for presidency. After his years in office he became a professor of law at Yale until President Harding made him Chief of Justice of the United States. He died in 1930.

    Him as President
    Taft was the 27th President and spent four years in office 1909-1913, however after his term he was renominated but lost the race to democratic Woodrow Wilson. He wrote: I don't remember that I was ever President after his career changes. He believed that the power of presidency had been taken too far, so he exerted his power to a lesser degree.

    His Accomplishments

    Taft was committed to lowering tariffs, and when elected, he called Congress into a special session to this end. Congress succeeding in reducing the average tariff from 46 to 41 percent, but some special interest groups raised them a few times. Taft, the federal government for the first time began the regulation of the telephone and telegraph industries.

    His Failures/Blunders

    His first mistake was to hold a special session of the Congress to reduce the tariff. This move was not welcomed by many in the Republican Party, and they wanted Taft to stop the tariff reform. mistake was dismissing Chief Forester of the United States, Gifford Pinchot, who was also a friend of Theodore Roosevelt.

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    Interesting Facts
    First President to become Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. First cabinet member (other than Secretary of State) to become president. First President to open a baseball season. He was over 6 feet tall and weighed 332 pounds at his inauguration.

    My Opinion

    President Taft, in my opinion was a good president he had the peoples interest and tried to better America. He tried to lower taxes, created child welfare laws, and labor laws. Granted he had his few mistakes but, he had good intentions.

    Reference Pages

    "American Experience . The Presidents . William Howard Taft | PBS." PBS: Public Broadcasting Service. Endowment for the Humanities and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2011. <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex Miller Center. "American President: American President." Miller Center. Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia, n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2011. <http://millercenter.org/president "Presidents: William H. Taft." American History and World History at Historycentral.com the largest and most complete history site on the web. MultiEducator, Inc., n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2011. <http://www.historycentral.com/bio "William Howard Taft | The White House." The White House. N.p., n.d. Web. 21 Aug. 2011. <http://www.whitehouse.gov/about

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