On March 8, 1930, William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, died at age 72. And before you ask the ...

The conversion of the late great William Howard Taft from Wet to Dry was the high spot of last week’s testimony before the House Judiciary Committee, sitting in judgment on measures to modify or ...

Bettmann/ Corbis William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt had once been friends. But when the Republican Party met in Chicago to choose its presidential candidate in June 1912, the nomination ...

On April 14, 1910, U.S. President William Howard Taft received a contentious reception when he told the audience at the 42nd ...

William Howard Taft was the natural successor to Theodore Roosevelt, with whom he had a very warm working relationship (one journalist wrote that T.A.F.T. stood for “Take Advice From Theodore.”) He ...

Over time, this led to significant pushback. In 1911, President William Howard Taft controversially vetoed the Arizona and New Mexico constitutions because Arizona had a provision allowing for ...