William Howard Taft
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President of the United States from 1909 to 1913
Why Is William Howard Taft Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Howard Taft was an American politician and lawyer who was the 27th president of the United States and the tenth chief justice of the United States , the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for reelection in 1912 by Woodrow Wilson after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a position he held until a month before his death.
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