Williamhowardtaft

William Howard Taft

  • Born in Cincinnati, Ohio

  • Taft goes to Yale where he graduates second in his class

  • Taft Graduates Cincinnati University School of Law

  • Taft married Helen Herron

  • Son Robert Alfonso Taft was born

  • Daughter Helen Herron Taft was born

  • Son Charles Phelps Taft was born

  • Taft was appointed the Governor of the Philippines

  • Made Secretary of War by Roosevelt

  • Taft won the presidential election succeeding Theodore Roosevelt

  • Taft's first day in office as president

  • Sixteenth Amendment

  • Taft sends warships to Nicaragua due to American deaths in revolutionist movement

  • Taft appoints Hughes to the Supreme Court

  • Postal Savings Bank Act

  • Taft appoints Willis Van Devanter to the Supreme Court

  • Taft appoints Edward White as Chief Justice

  • Arizona becomes a state

  • Taft plants the first cherry trees in DC

  • Panama Canal Act

  • VP John Sherman dies

  • Woodrow Wilson wins election over Taft

  • Sixteenth Amendment ratified

  • Taft's last day in office as president

  • Taft appointed to the Supreme Court by President Harding

  • Died