WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT

[Library of Congress]

1857-1930

27th President (1909-1913)

Biographical Data
Religious Views
Quotations
References, Links, & Further Reading

Education: Yale

Occupation: lawyer

Political Affiliation: Republican

Organizational Affiliation(s): Mason

Religious Affiliation: Unitarian

Summary of Religious Views:

Views on Religion & Politics:

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References, Links, & Further Reading: Books, Articles, Links

Books

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Works by William Howard Taft

Four Aspects of Civic Duty, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1906; reprint
Present Day Problems: A Collection of Addresses Delivered on Various Occasions, Dodd, Mead, 1908; reprint
Popular Government: Its Essence, Its Permanence and its Peril, Yale Univ. Press, 1913; reprint
The Anti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court, Harper & Bros., 1914
Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers, Columbia Univ. Press, 1915; reprint
Liberty Under Law, Yale Univ. Press, 1922; reprint
ed. by David H. Burton and A. E. Campbell, The Collected Works of William Howard Taft, 8 vols., Ohio Univ. Press

Biographies

Donald F. Anderson, William Howard Taft: A Conservative's Conception of the Presidency, Cornell Univ. Press, 1968
Judith I. Anderson, William Howard Taft: An Intimate History, W.W. Norton, 1981
Michael L. Bromley, William Howard Taft and the First Motoring Presidency 1909-1913, McFarland, 2003
Adam D. Burns, William Howard Taft and the Philippines: A Blueprint for Empire, Univ. of Tennessee Press, 2020
David Burton, William Howard Taft: Confident Peacemaker, St. Joseph's Univ. Press, 2004
Paolo E. Coletta, The Presidency of William Howard Taft, Univ. Press of Kansas, 1973
Rene R. Escalante, The Bearer of Pax Americana: The Philippine Career of William H. Taft, 1900-1903, New Day Publishers, 2007
Lewis L. Gould, The William Howard Taft Presidency, Univ. Press of Kansas, 2009
Lewis L. Gould, Chief Executive to Chief Justice: Taft betwixt the White House and Supreme Court, Univ. Press of Kansas, 2014
Frederick Hicks, William Howard Taft: Yale Professor of Law and New Haven Citizen, Yale Univ. Press, 1945
Michael J. Korzi, Presidential Leadership at the Crossroads: William Howard Taft and the Modern Presidency, Texas A&M Univ. Press, 2021
Alpheus T. Mason, William Howard Taft: Chief Justice, Univ. Press of America, 1983
Ralph Eldin Minger, William Howard Taft and United States Foreign Policy: The Apprenticeship Years, 1900-1908, Univ. of Illinois Press, 1975
Henry F. Pringle, The Life and Times of William Howard Taft, 2 vols., Farrar & Rinehart, 1939
Peter Renstrom, The Taft Court: Justices, Rulings, And Legacy, ABC-CLIO, 2003
Jeffrey Rosen, William Howard Taft, Times Books, 2018
Walter V. and Marie V. Scholes, The Foreign Policies of the Taft Administration,, Univ. of Missouri Press, 1970

Articles

Michael J. Korzi, "Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers: A Reconsideration of William Howard Taft's 'Whig' Theory of Presidential Leadership", Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 33, No. 2, pp. 305-324, Jun. 2003
Stanley D. Solvick, "William Howard Taft and the Payne-Aldrich Tariff", Mississippi Valley Historical Review, Vol. 50, No.3, pp. 424-442, December 1, 1963

Links

Works by William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (American Presidency Project)
Inaugural Address (AMDOCS)
Inaugural Address of William Howard Taft (Avalon Project -- Yale Law School)
William Howard Taft -- Abolishment of war throughout the world (Vincent Voice Library -- Michigan State University Libraries)

Biographical Sites

William Howard Taft (POTUS)
William Howard Taft (White House)
William Howard Taft (American President)
William Howard Taft (USA Presidents)
A Biography of William Howard Taft (1857-1930) (Hypertext on American History)
William Howard Taft (The OYEZ Project -- Northwestern University)
Life Portrait of William Howard Taft (C-SPAN)
William Howard Taft (Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography)
William Taft (Medical History of the Presidents of the United States)
Kinemacolor Frames of William Howard Taft (American WideScreen Museum)
The Taft Summer White House