Author:William Howard Taft

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William Howard Taft (1857–1930)

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27th President of the United States (1909 – 1913), with James S. Sherman (1909 - 1912), succeeding Theodore Roosevelt, succeeded by Woodrow Wilson; 10th Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1921 - 1930), succeeding Edward Douglass White, succeeded by Charles Evans Hughes; 42nd United States Secretary of War (1904 - 1908)

William Howard Taft

Works

Inaugural address

• Inaugural Address (4 March 1909)

State of the Union addresses

• First State of the Union address (7 December 1909)
• Second State of the Union address (6 December 1910)
• Third State of the Union address (5 December 1911)
• Fourth State of the Union address (3 December 1912)

United States Supreme Court opinions

Opinions of the Court

• Myers v. United States, 272 U.S. 52 (1926)

Dissenting Opinions

• Adkins v. Children's Hospital of the District of Columbia, 261 U.S. 525 (1923)

Other works

• Executive Orders
• Presidential Proclamations
• "A Poisoned World", (from a meeting of the American Red Cross War Council, Washington, D.C., May 24-25, 1917)
• "The Farmer and the Republican Party", campaign speech, 1908. (audio of the speech on Commons)
• "America Can't Quit", essay, July 2, 1919.

Works dedicated to Taft

• EB1911

Works about Taft

• “Taft, William Howard,” The New International Encyclopædia. New York: Dodd, Mead and Co., 1905.
• “Taft, William Howard” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• Francis E. Leupp, “William H. Taft” in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.
• “Taft, William Howard,” The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co., 1914.
• “Taft, William Howard” by Arthur P. Scott  in The Encyclopedia Americana. New York, 1920.
• “Taft, William Howard,” Collier's New Encyclopedia. New York: P.F. Collier & Son Co., 1921.
• “Taft, William Howard,” Encyclopædia Britannica (12th ed.), 1922.
• “Taft, William Howard,” Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1900.

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1923. The author died in 1930, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.