William Howard Taft
Twenty-Seventh President of the United States
1909-1913
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Personal Information
Date of Birth: September 15, 1857
Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio
Date of Death: March 8, 1930
Place of Death: Washington, D.C>
Occupation: Lawyer, Public Official
Party: Republican
Wife: Helen W. Herron


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Term in office

-1909-

• Innaugurated as president. Taft was innaugurated in the senate chamber due to inclement weather. (March)
  
• Sent a recommendation to congress for a tax on corporations, banks excluded (June)
  
• Payne-Aldrich Act passed. This created a committee to review tarriffs (August)
  
• Toured United States supporting Payne-Aldrich Act (September)
  -1910-
  
• $100,000 allocated to Treasury Department to study government spending (June)
  
• Postal Savings Bank Act. This put money into the Post Office, who was in deficit at the time. (June)
  -1911-
  
• A Commission on Economy and Efficiency was created. This commission studies the organization of government (March)
  
• celebrates Silver anniversary with wife at White House. (July 19)
  
• arbitration treaties signed with France and England. (July)
  
• Vetoed tarriff reductions. (July)
  
• Tobacco Trust ended (December)
  -1912-
  
• New Mexico becomes state number 47. (January)
  
• Many members of the "Commission on Efficiency and Economy" were forced to resign after budget cuts by congress (January)
  
• Arizona becomes state number 48. (February)
  
• Mrs. Taft planted the first Japanese Cherry tree in the capital (March)
  
• compromise tariff bill vetoed. Taft explained that it is "a bill identical with the one I vetoed before the report to the Tarriff Board" (August)
  
• Alaska got territorial government for the U.S. (August)
  
• Vice President Sherman died (October)
  
• Wilson elected as next president (November)
  -1913-
  
• parcel post put into effect (January)
  
• bill requireing literacy for entry into the U.S. was vetoed (February)
  
• Sixteenth Amendment allows Congress to tax income (February)
  

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