![]() ![]() Besides Lewis Gould's recent The William Howard Taft Presidency (2009 which replaced Paolo E. In the eight years between leaving the White House and his confirmation to the Supreme Court, he was a professor at Yale Law School and president of the American Bar Association.ĭespite this extraordinary résumé, Taft has received scant scholarly attention since his death in 1930, less than five weeks after retiring from the Court. ![]() civil governor of the Philippines, secretary of war, president of the United States, co-chairman of the National War Labor Board during World War I, and, finally, Chief Justice of the U.S. Judge for the Sixth Circuit, president of the Philippine Commission under William McKinley, first U.S. He was an assistant prosecutor in Ohio, Ohio Superior Court Judge, Solicitor General of the United States, U.S. After getting his start in Republican machine politics as a federal collector of revenue-"ike every well-trained Ohio man, I always had my plate the right side up when offices were falling"-he spent the rest of his life in one eminent public office after another. William Howard Taft, the only American to serve in the highest office in the executive branch and the highest in the federal judiciary, had a career as remarkable as it is neglected. ![]() A review of William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative, by Jonathan Lurie ![]()
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