William Howard Taft

== Term ==
* 10th Chief Justice of the United States
* July 11, 1921 - February 3, 1930 (63-72)
* Appointed by Warren G. Harding
* Preceded by Edward Douglass White
* Succeeded by Charles Evans Hughes
* 27th President of the United States
* March 4, 1909 - March 4, 1913 (51-55)
* Republican
* Preceded by Theodore Roosevelt
* Succeeded by Woodrow Wilson
* 1st Provisional Governor of Cuba
* September 29, 1906 - October 13, 1906 (49)
* Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt
* Succeeded by Charles Edward Magoon
* 43rd Secretary of War of the United States
* February 1, 1904 - June 30, 1908 (46-50)
* Preceded by Elihu Root
* Succeeded by Luke Edward Wright
* Governor-General of the Philippines
* March 16, 1900 - December 23, 1903 (42-46)
* Appointed by William McKinley
* Preceded by Jacob Gould Schurman
* Succeeded by Luke Edward Wright
* Judge of the United States Court of Appeals' Sixth Circuit
* March 17, 1892 - March 15, 1900 (34-42)
* Appointed by Benjamin Harrison
* Succeeded by Henry Franklin Severens
* 6th Solicitor General of the United States
* February 4, 1890 - March 20, 1892 (32-34)
* Appointed by Benjamin Harrison
* Preceded by Orlow W. Chapman
* Succeeded by Charles H. Aldrich
== Life Data ==
* William Howard Taft
* Born September 15, 1857
* in Cincinnati, Ohio
* Education: Yale University (BA 1878), University of Cincinnati Law School (LLB 1880)
* Occupation: Lawyer, Judge, Educator, Politician
* Died March 8, 1930 (72 years)
* in Washington, D.C.
== Parents ==
Father	Alphonso Taft 	November 5, 1810 	May 21, 1891 (80 years) 	December 26, 1853 - May 21, 1891 (37 years)
Mother	Louisa Maria Torrey	September 11, 1827	December 8, 1907 (80 years)	December 26, 1853 - May 21, 1891 (37 years)
== Paternal Half-Siblings ==
1.	Charles Phelps Taft	December 21, 1843	December 31, 1929 (86 years)	m.1873 Anna Stinton (1852-1931)	4 children
2.	Peter Rawson Taft 	May 10, 1846 	June 3, 1889 (43 years) 	m.1876 Anna Hulbert (1858-1923)	1 child
3.	Mary Taft 	November 24, 1848	November 24, 1848 	November 29, 1848 (5 days) 	November 29, 1848 (5 days)
4.	Alphonso Taft Jr. 	May 12, 1850 	May 12, 1850 	March 2, 1851 (9 months) 	March 2, 1851 (9 months)
5.	Alphonso Taft Jr. 	December 22, 1851	December 22, 1851 	June 22, 1852 (6 months) 	June 22, 1852 (6 months)
== Siblings ==
6.	Samuel Davenport Taft	February 7, 1855 	February 7, 1855 	April 8, 1856 (1 year) 	April 8, 1856 (1 year)
7.	Henry Waters Taft 	May 27, 1859 	August 11, 1945 (86 years) 	m.1883 Julia Smith (1858-1942) 	4 children
8.	Horace Dutton Taft 	December 28, 1861	January 28, 1943 (81 years)	m.1892 Winifred Thompson (1860-1909)	m.1892 Winifred Thompson (1860-1909)
9.	Frances Louise Taft 	July 18, 1865 	January 4, 1950 (84 years) 	m.1890 William Edwards (1860-1933) 	m.1890 William Edwards (1860-1933)
== Paternal Grandparents ==
Paternal Grandfather	Peter Rawson Taft	April 14, 1785 	January 1, 1867 (81 years) 	February 5, 1810 - February 28, 1866 (56 years)
Paternal Grandmother	Sylvia Howard 	February 1, 1792	February 28, 1866 (74 years)	1 child
== Maternal Grandparents ==
Maternal Grandfather	Samuel Davenport Torrey	April 14, 1789	December 23, 1877 (88 years)	January 4, 1824 - February 3, 1866 (42 years)
Maternal Grandmother	Susan Holman Waters 	April 4, 1803 	February 3, 1866 (62 years) 	5 children
== Marriage ==
Wife 	Helen Louise Herron
Birth 	June 2, 1861
Father 	John Williamson Herron (1827-1912)
Mother 	Harriet Ann Clinton Collins (1833-1902)
Marriage	June 19, 1886 - March 8, 1930 (43 years)
Death 	May 22, 1943 (81 years)
== Child 1 ==
Robert Alphonso Taft	September 8, 1889 	July 31, 1953 (63 years) 	m.1914 Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889-1958)
Child 1 	William (1915-91)	m.1942 Barbara Bradfield (1917-2007)	4 children
Child 2 	Robert (1917-93) 	
# m.1939 Blanca Noel (1917-68)
# m.1969 Katherine Whittaker (1922-2000)
# m.1978 Joan McKelvy (1925-2015)	
# 4 children
Child 3 	Lloyd (1923-85) 	m.1947 Virginia Stone (1925-82) 	4 children
Child 4 	Horace (1925-83) 	m.1952 Mary Badger (1930-2006) 	3 children
== Child 2 ==
Helen Herron Taft	August 1, 1891 	February 21, 1987 (95 years) 	m.1920 Frederick Johnson Manning (1894-1966)
Child 1 	Helen (1921-2013) 	m.1945 Holland Hunter (1921-2014) 	4 children
Child 2 	Caroline (1925-2020)	m.1947 Frederic Cunningham (1921-2011)	3 children
== Child 3 ==
Charles Phelps Taft	September 20, 1897 	June 24, 1983 (85 years) 	m.1917 Eleanor Kellogg Chase (1894-1961)
Child 1 	Eleanor (1918-2004)	m.1941 Donald Hall (1910-94) 	5 children
Child 2 	Sylvia (1920-2008) 	m.1942 William Lotspeich (1920-68)	3 children
Child 3 	Seth (1922-2013) 	m.1943 Frances Prindle (1921-2017)	4 children
Child 4 	Lucia (1924-55) 	Lucia (1924-55) 	Lucia (1924-55)
Child 5 	Cynthia (1928-2013)	m.1955 Donald Morris (1930-2020) 	2 children
Child 6 	Rosalyn (1930-41) 	Rosalyn (1930-41) 	Rosalyn (1930-41)
Child 7 	Peter (1936-) 	m.1979 Diana Todd (1946-) 	3 children
== Vice President ==
James S. Sherman	1855-1912	1909-12	New York
== Presidential Cabinet ==
Secretary of State 	
# Robert Bacon
# Philander C. Knox	
# 1860-1919
# 1853-1921	
# 1909
# 1909-13	
# New York
# Pennsylvania
Secretary of the Treasury 	
# George B. Cortelyou
# Franklin MacVeagh	
# 1862-1940
# 1837-1934	
# 1909
# 1909-13	
# New York
# Illinois
Secretary of War 	
# Jacob M. Dickinson
# Henry L. Stimson	
# 1851-1928
# 1867-1950	
# 1909-11
# 1911-13	
# Tennessee
# New York
Attorney General 	George W. Wickersham 	1858-1936	1909-13	New York
Secretary of the Navy 	George von Lengerke Meyer	1858-1918	1909-13	Massachusetts
Postmaster General 	Frank Harris Hitchcock 	1867-1935	1909-13	Massachusetts
Secretary of the Interior 	
# Richard A. Ballinger
# Walter L. Fisher	
# 1858-1922
# 1862-1935	
# 1909-11
# 1911-13	
# Washington
# Illinois
Secretary of Agriculture 	James Wilson 	1835-1920	1909-13	Iowa
Secretary of Commerce and Labor	
# Oscar Straus
# Charles Nagel	
# 1850-1926
# 1849-1940	
# 1909
# 1909-13	
# New York
# Missouri
== Chief Justice ==
8.	Melville Fuller 	1833-1910	1888-1910 (22 years)	Illinois
9.	Edward Douglass White	1845-1921	1910-21 (11 years) 	Louisiana
== Associate Justices ==
1. 	John Marshall Harlan 	1833-1911	1877-1911 (34 years)	Kentucky
2. 	David J. Brewer 	1837-1910	1890-1910 (20 years)	Kansas
3. 	Edward Douglass White 	1845-1921	1894-1910 (16 years)	Louisiana
4. 	Rufus W. Peckham 	1838-1909	1896-1909 (13 years)	New York
5. 	Joseph McKenna 	1843-1926	1898-1925 (27 years)	California
6. 	Oliver Wendall Holmes Jr.	1841-1935	1902-32 (30 years) 	Massachusetts
7. 	William R. Day 	1849-1923	1903-22 (19 years) 	Ohio
8. 	William Henry Moody 	1853-1917	1906-10 (4 years) 	Massachusetts
9. 	Horace Harmon Lurton 	1844-1914	1910-14 (4 years) 	Tennessee
10.	Charles Evans Hughes 	1862-1948	1910-16 (6 years) 	New York
11.	Willis Van Devanter 	1859-1941	1911-37 (26 years) 	Wyoming
12.	Joseph Rucker Lamar 	1857-1916	1911-16 (5 years) 	Georgia
13.	Mahlon Pitney 	1858-1924	1912-22 (10 years) 	New Jersey