THE PRESIDENTS William Taft Teddie Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson

William Taft/Early life Born September 15, 1859 At age of eighteen, met future wife Taft attended Yale college Married Helen Herron in 1886 Met Roosevelt in 1898 Was overweight all his life

William Taft/political life He was a chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt He was to carry out Roosevelt’s policies and enforce them to the same extent that Roosevelt did. Although he resented to be the president, his anger towards Roosevelt caused him to run for the 1912 election

Continued He once got stuck in the bathtub during presidency.

Theodore Roosevelt/Political life Assistant secretary of the navy Vice President for McKinley Presidency from 1901 through to 1909 Regulation of industry The square deal The square deal was his terms for the regulation of industry

Continued He was the youngest president to take office in the nations history in 1901 at the age of 43

Theodore Roosevelt/private life At age 22, Roosev elt married his first wife, Alice Hathaway Lee on October 27, She died exactly 4 years later In 1886, Roosevelt remarried to his childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow He was also part of the freemason society He was an extremely work orientated man, and he sought what he called “The strenuous life”

Continued He took up boxing, running, tennis, hiking, polo, horseback riding, jujutsu and skinny dipping in the Potomac river during the winter Roosevelt was slightly blind in one eye, because of a boxing match that detached his left retina He read on average, several books a day

Theodore Roosevelt/prepresidency Born New York City, October 27, 1858 Home schooled by Parents and Paid teachers alll his life Was deficient in math, Greek, and Latin. Matriculated at Harvard College in 1876 He graduated Magna Cum Laude.

Continued His father’s death in 1878 was a major blow to him and he revamped his educational efforts and did well in, Biology, and was already an accomplished naturalist and published ornithologist An ornithologist does research on birds

Woodrow Wilson/political life Was the 28 th president of the united states Democratic Designed the Federal Reserve Program Reelected in 1916 Second election focused on World War 1

Woodrow Wilson/political life Continued Created the Espionage Act of 1917 Created Federal Farm act 1916 which allowed farmers to borrow 50% of land value and 20% of improvements

Woodrow Wilson/ Private life He stood 5’11 Was pounds Had blue eyes and brown hair Had bad teeth Born in Staunton Virginia, in 1856 He was thought to have a slight touch of dyslexia

Continued Married twice to Ellen Axson Wilson and then to Edith Galt Wilson He was the chosen president for the dollar bill. The bill never went into circulation.

continued He was born on December 28, 1856 Died February 3, 1924

Woodrow Wilson/Prepresidency Spent the majority of his childhood up to age 14 in Augusta, Georgia Graduated Princeton College in 1879 Later that year he began attending university of Virginia for law school (1879)

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