Taft Timeline

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  • Taft Inaugurated

    Taft gets inaugurated into office as US President.

  • Nellie Taft Suffers Stroke

    Nellie Taft (wife) suffers from a stroke but temporarily recovers.

  • Taft's First Congress Message

    Taft proposes a tax to make up for revenue lost by tariff reductions.

  • Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act

    Taft signs the Payne-Aldrich Tariff Act, which establishes a Tariff Board and reduces the tariff.

  • General Wood becomes Army Chief of Staff

    Taft appoints General Leonard Wood as Chief of Staff of the Army. He also elevates circuit judge Horace H. Lurton to the Supreme Court.

  • Taft appoints Hughes to the Supreme Court

    President Taft appoints Governor Charles E. Hughes of New York to the Supreme Court.

  • Taft rejects joint honor

    Taft rejects a proposed dinner, given by the National Conservation Congress.

  • Taft appoints Willis Van Devanter

    Taft appoints Willis Van Devanter to the Supreme Court to replace Justice William Moody.

  • Taft appoints Chief Justice

    Taft appoints Edward White as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

  • Taft appoints Secretary of Interior

    Taft appoints Walter Fisher as Secretary of the Interior to replace Richard Ballinger.

  • Taft appoints Secretary of War

    Taft appoints Henry Stimson secretary of war to replace Jacob Dickinson.

  • Triangle Shirtwaist factory fire

    The Triangle Shirtwaist Company bursts into flames in Manhattan.

  • New Mexico becomes a state

    New Mexico is admitted as the forty-seventh state.

  • Taft wins Republican nomination

    Taft wins the Republican presidential nomination over Theodore Roosevelt.

  • Vice President John Sherman dies

    Vice President Sherman dies and Nicholas Butler replaces him.

  • Wilson defeats Taft and Roosevelt

    Woodrow Wilson defeats Taft in the 1912 presidential election.