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William Howard Taft
27th President of the United States from 1909 to 1913 (1857–1930)
Details
- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 15 September 1857
- Died
- 8 March 1930
- Place of birth
- Cincinnati
- Place of death
- Washington metropolitan area
- Sex or gender
- male
- Family name
- Taft
- Father
- Alphonso Taft
- Mother
- Louise Taft
- Spouse
- Helen Herron Taft
- Occupation
- judge, lawyer, prosecutor, pedagogue, university teacher, politician, statesperson, writer, jurist
- Position held
- President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States, United States Secretary of War, Governor of Cuba, Governor-General of the Philippines, Solicitor General of the United States, Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, President-elect of the United States, president
- Citizenship
- United States
- Native language
- English
- Religion
- Unitarianism
- archives at
- Manuscripts and Archives Department Yale University Library, New York Public Library Main Branch
- artist files at
- Smithsonian American Art and Portrait Gallery Library
- candidacy in election
- 1908 United States presidential election
- cause of death
- heart failure
- described by source
- Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, Small Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary, Library of the World's Best Literature, 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica, The Encyclopedia Americana, Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921, The New Student's Reference Work, New International Encyclopedia
- employer
- Yale Law School, Boston University, University of Cincinnati, University of Cincinnati College of Law
- facial hair
- handlebar moustache
- family
- Taft family
- height
- 182 cm
- languages spoken, written or signed
- English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- member of political party
- Republican Party
- name in native language
- William Howard Taft
- nominated for
- Nobel Peace Prize
- number of children
- 3
- place of burial
- Arlington National Cemetery
- topic's main category
- Category:William Howard Taft
- writing language
- English
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