President William Howard Taft

URI: https://gptkb.org/entity/President_William_Howard_Taft
GPTKB entity
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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:person
gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:Yale_University
gptkb:Cincinnati_Law_School
gptkbp:appointedByAsChiefJustice gptkb:Warren_G._Harding
gptkbp:awards gptkb:Gold_Medal,_National_Institute_of_Social_Sciences
gptkbp:birthDate 1857-09-15
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Cincinnati,_Ohio,_United_States
gptkbp:burialPlace gptkb:Arlington_National_Cemetery
gptkbp:chiefJusticeOf gptkb:United_States_Supreme_Court
gptkbp:chiefJusticeTermEnd 1930-02-03
gptkbp:chiefJusticeTermStart 1921-07-11
gptkbp:children gptkb:Charles_Phelps_Taft_II
gptkb:Helen_Taft_Manning
gptkb:Robert_A._Taft
gptkbp:deathDate 1930-03-08
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Washington,_D.C.,_United_States
gptkbp:father gptkb:Alphonso_Taft
gptkbp:fullName gptkb:William_Howard_Taft
gptkbp:governor gptkb:Philippines
gptkbp:governorTermStart 1901
gptkbp:height 6 ft 0 in
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label President William Howard Taft
gptkbp:memberOf gptkb:Skull_and_Bones
gptkbp:mother gptkb:Louisa_Maria_Torrey
gptkbp:nationality gptkb:American
gptkbp:notableFor Only person to serve as both President and Chief Justice of the United States
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:judge
gptkb:lawyer
politician
gptkbp:party gptkb:Republican_Party
gptkbp:predecessor gptkb:Theodore_Roosevelt
gptkbp:predecessorAsChiefJustice gptkb:Edward_Douglass_White
gptkbp:president gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:presidentialOrder 27
gptkbp:religion Unitarian
gptkbp:restingPlace gptkb:Arlington_National_Cemetery
gptkbp:secretaryOfWar gptkb:United_States
gptkbp:secretaryOfWarTermEnd 1908
gptkbp:secretaryOfWarTermStart 1904
gptkbp:signature William Howard Taft signature.svg
gptkbp:spouse gptkb:Helen_Herron_Taft
gptkbp:successor gptkb:Woodrow_Wilson
gptkbp:successorAsChiefJustice gptkb:Charles_Evans_Hughes
gptkbp:termEnd 1904
1913-03-04
gptkbp:termStart 1909-03-04
gptkbp:vicePresident gptkb:James_S._Sherman
gptkbp:weight Varied, up to 340 lbs
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Charles_Morse
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5