William Howard Taft
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William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.
Portrait, c. 1908
Yale College photograph of Taft, c. 1878
Roosevelt introduces Taft as his crown prince: Puck magazine cover cartoon, 1906.
One of a series of candid photographs known as the Evolution of a Smile, taken just after a formal portrait session, as Taft learned in a telephone call from Roosevelt of his nomination for president
William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States from March 4, 1909, to March 4, 1913. Taft, a Republican from Ohio, and the chosen successor of President Theodore Roosevelt, took offic
William Howard Taft, head and shoulders portrait, facing front
1894 US Presidential Seal
Taft, seated at center, and his cabinet (September 1910), left to right: Richard Achilles Ballinger, George von Lengerke Meyer, Philander C. Knox, Charles Dyer Norton, Frank Harris Hitchcock, James Wilson, Franklin MacVeagh, George W. Wickersham, Charles Nagel