2. BBorn September 1857. LLouisa Maria Torrey and Alphonso Taft AAttended Yale College  University of Cincinnati College of Law MMarried High School Sweetheart TThree Children PPreferred Law, not Politics

3.  Entered Politics  Became a judge at the Ohio Superior Court  County prosecutor  State judge  U.S Solicitor General  U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals  Became Governor general of the Philippines  Roosevelt offers Taft to become Secretary of War  Roosevelt announces Taft as his successor  Taft runs for presidency

4. Election of 1908

5.  Stuck in the bathtub myth  Not following Roosevelt’s policies  Dollar Diplomacy  Trust-Busting  Roosevelt wanted revenge  Fought for the republican nomination  Bull Moose Party  Election of 1912

6. Election of 1912

7.  Lost 240lbs  Yale University Law School  Chief Justice of the Supreme Court  Judge’s Act of 1925  Died March 8 th 1930

8.  Courthouses in Ohio were named after him  Streets in Cincinnati  A school in California  A major street in the Philippines  Robert Taft Jr. became a senator in Ohio  William Howard Taft III became ambassador to Ireland

9.  http://totallyhistory.com/william-howard-taft/  http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/williamhowardtaft  http://www.biography.com/people/william-howard-taft-9501184  http://www.history.com/topics/william-howard-taft  http://millercenter.org/president/taft  http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1908  http://www.biography.com/people/theodore-roosevelt- 9463424/videos/theodore-roosevelt-bull-moose-party- 12663875798  http://www.sparknotes.com/history/american/gildedage/section 10.rhtml  http://news.yahoo.com/clearing-william-howard-taft-bathtub- 112026911.html  https://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=ii (Google images)