Term: 27th President of the United States (1909-1913)
Vice President: James S. Sherman
Born: September 15, 1857, Cincinnati, Ohio
Nickname: None
Education: Yale College (graduated 1878), Cincinnati Law School (LL.B., 1880)
Religion: Unitarian
Marriage: June 19, 1886, to Helen Herron (1861-1943)
Children: Robert Alphonso (1889-1953), Helen Herron (1891-1987), Charles Phelps (1897-1983)
Career: Lawyer, Public Official
Political Party: Republican
Writings:The Anti-Trust and the Supreme Court (1914), The United States and Peace (1914), Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers (1916)
Died: March 8, 1930, Washington, D.C.
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
William Taft Trivia:
Graduated Yale College (1878); Cincinnati Law School (1880). Secretary of War under Roosevelt. February 3, 1913 the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution authorizing income taxes was ratified. It states simply Trivia:
"The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment among the several States, and without regard to any census or enumeration." Taft is the only person to serve as both President and Chief Justice (1921-1930) of the U.S. He inaugurated the custom of the president throwing out the first ball to start the baseball season. Mrs. Taft was responsible for the planting of the Japanese cherry trees in Washington. Taft, who weighed 332 pounds, got stuck in the White House bathtub the first time he used it. A larger one was ordered. The Taft's owned the last presidential cow and the first White House automobile.
