william howard taft

     

He was the last sitting president to run for re-election & finish third in the Electoral College

Trivia about william howard taft

  • His mother, Louise, said, "I do not want my son to be president... his is a judicial mind and he loves the law"
  • Charles Evans Hughes was appointed to the court by this man whom he later succeeded as Chief Justice
  • He was known as "Big Bill"
  • He was so big that a bathtub large enough to hold 4 men was installed in the White House for him
  • Later chief justice, this man once got stuck in a White House bathtub & couldn't get out
  • He was so heavy that a huge bathtub had to be installed in the White House for him in 1909
  • In March 1930, a month after he retired from the Supreme Court, his funeral was one of the first heard on radio
  • This "Big Bill" bellied up to the White House buffet 80 years before Clinton
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  • In 1921 this man seen here realized his lifelong dream of becoming U.S. Chief Justice
  • The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was founded in 1912 at the suggestion of this president
  • On June 24, 1912, an executive order by this president established the flag's design specifications
  • He went on to preside over the American Bar Association & over the Supreme Court of the U.S.
  • Teddy Roosevelt quipped that this successor "meant well but meant well feebly"
  • He was the first & only president to administer the oath of office to a successor
  • He was the 27th president & the 10th Supreme Court Chief Justice
  • Teddy Roosevelt sponsored the candidacy of this man in 1908 & ran against him in 1912
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  • This Ohioan was the last president to sport a mustache while in office
  • "The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court"
  • Edward White was nominated as chief justice by this president who later replaced him on the court
  • This president's father, Alphonso, was Grant's attorney general
  • Having reconciled with Teddy only a short time before, this ex-president attended TR's funeral
  • 1921-1930
  • In February 1930 illness forced him to resign as U.S. Chief Justice; he died a month later
  • He was the "I" on a 1908 button reading "U-N-I-Ted", (you & I, Teddy Roosevelt)
  • This hefty president awarded the infant Lloyd Bridges a trophy for being America's fattest baby
  • The last President to sport a moustache or beard while in office
  • This "Big Bill" married the daughter of a former law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes
  • This president's son & grandson were Ohio senators; a great-grandson, Ohio's governor
  • At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first
  • The first of 2 presidents buried at Arlington National Cemetery