Taft's efforts included one suit against the country's largest corporation, U. S. Steel, for the acquisition of a Tennessee company during Roosevelt's tenure.

As Taft's Ambassador to Mexico, fearing the leftist tendencies of the new Madero government upon the ouster of Diaz ( not to mention the fact that he considered Madero a ' lunatic '), he assumed the role of catalyst for the plot of General Victoriano Huerta, Felix Diaz, and General Bernardo Reyes against President Madero, and was purported to have assisted in arranging the murder of Madero and his vice-president, José María Pino Suárez, during La decena tragica ( The Ten Tragic Days ) in February 1913, a point that was later disputed by Wilson.

He performed this service for about $ 2, 000 per year from early 1908 until 1912 when President William Howard Taft removed Masterson from the position during Taft's purge of Roosevelt supporters from government positions.

He was Secretary of Commerce and Labor during President William Howard Taft's administration ( 1909 – 1913 ).

He was one of only two Supreme Court Justices nominated by President Taft who also later served during Taft's tenure as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1909 to March 4, 1911, during the first two years of William H. Taft's Presidency.

A popular figure in Republican politics, he turned down three cabinet posts during his political career: Secretary of the Interior in President William McKinley's administration in 1898, Attorney General under President McKinley in 1901, and Secretary of State in President William Howard Taft's administration in 1909.

It met in Washington, DC from March 4, 1911 to March 4, 1913, during the third and fourth years of William H. Taft's presidency.

Taft's administration got a political boost after 25 western railroads announced an intent to raise rates by 20 %, and Taft responded, first with a threat to enforce the Sherman Antitrust Act against them ; he then negotiated a settlement whereby they agreed to submit delayed rate requests to a new Interstate Commerce Commission having authority over rate requests.

Thus, with the support of convention chairman Elihu Root, Taft's supporters outvoted Roosevelt's men, and the convention renominated incumbents William Howard Taft and James S. Sherman, making Sherman the first sitting vice-president to be nominated for re-election since John C. Calhoun in 1828.

When the Republicans in 1964 gave Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, Taft's successor as the conservative leader, their presidential nomination, Dewey declined to even attend the GOP Convention in San Francisco ; it was the first Republican Convention he had missed since 1936.

This was the first of Taft's six Supreme Court appointments, and surprised some observers because unlike Taft, Lurton was a Democrat.

By 1912, Taft's first term was coming to an end.

In his only term, Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment.

After Taft's death in 1953, Bender ran for and narrowly won the vacant Senate seat and served the remaining two years of its term.

Upon taking office in March 1909, President Taft appointed Meyer to the position of Secretary of the Navy, a post which Meyer held throughout Taft's term.

The end of Hoggatt's term as governor came on May 18, 1909 when he resigned to make way for President William Howard Taft's appointment of Walter Eli Clark.

The U. S. House election, 1910 was an election for the United States House of Representatives in 1910 which occurred in the middle of President William Howard Taft's term.

On October 27, 1911, however, Roosevelt and Taft's deteriorating friendship officially came to an end when Taft's administration filed an antitrust suit against US Steel, which Roosevelt labeled as a " good trust ".

This came after that network's founder Leonard Goldenson persuaded Taft's president, a longtime friend, to switch several of the company's stations to ABC.

William Howard Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, came to Cincinnati from Vermont in 1839 to establish a law practice.

Indeed, Taft's administration marked a change in style from the political charisma of Roosevelt to the passion of Taft for the rule of law.

The resulting tariff rates in the Payne – Aldrich Tariff Act of 1909 were too high for the progressives, based in part on Taft's campaign promises ; but instead of blaming the act's shortcomings on Senator Nelson W. Aldrich and big business, Taft claimed the responsibility, calling it the best bill to come from the Republican Party.

No foreign affairs controversy tested Taft's statesmanship and commitment to peace more than the uprising in Mexico against the authoritarian regime of the aging Porfirio Diaz, which had attracted billions in capital investment for economic development, much of it from the U. S. Anti-regime ( and anti-American ) riots began in 1910 and were reported by Ambassador Henry Lane Wilson to Knox, who failed to pass the information on to the President.

In 1948 and 1952 Reece was a leading supporter of Taft's candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination ; however, Taft lost the nomination both times to moderate Republicans from New York.

The Japanese Prime Minister Katsura Taro used the opportunity presented by Secretary of War William Howard Taft's stopover in Tokyo to extract a statement from ( representative of the Roosevelt Administration ) Taft's opinions toward the " Korea question ".

Two of Taft's grandsons are Robert Alphonso Taft II ( born 1942 ), Governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007, and William Howard Taft IV ( born 1945 ), Deputy Secretary of Defense from 1984 to 1989.

Clark's Speakership was notable for two things: First, Clark's skill from 1910 to 1914 in maintaining party unity to block William Howard Taft's legislation and then pass Wilson's ; and second, Clark's splitting of the party in 1917 and 1918 when he opposed Wilson's decision to bring the United States into World War I.

In the American Inquiry, Bride was also questioned about ignoring requests for information, while on the Carpathia, from the press and the U. S. Navy, which wanted to know the fate of President Taft's personal friend and aide, Archibald Butt.

The 1912 Republican convention saw the business-oriented faction supporting William Howard Taft turn back a challenge from former president Theodore Roosevelt, who boasted broader popular support and even won a primary in Taft's home state of Ohio.

Lieutenant Bob Taft's 3rd Platoon of Alpha Company confronted approximately 150 Vietnamese soldiers advancing down the length and sides of the creek bed ( from the south ) toward the battalion.

However, Taft was establishing good relations with ABC: Taft's flagship station, WKRC-TV in Cincinnati, had also switched from CBS to ABC that same year, and Taft's chairman was a personal friend of the ABC president Leonard Goldenson.

Under Taft's ownership, WTAF soon established itself as a local powerhouse, and ran programs from Taft's archive, such as Hanna-Barbera cartoons, which from 1979 onward were distributed by Worldvision Enterprises ( which Taft had purchased ), and later on the Quinn Martin library.

On July 29, the Toledo Blade reported on a 2001 e-mail from Taft's assistant Jon Allison complaining Schmidt was " bugging " him about setting up an Internet lottery for Cincinnati businessman Roger Ach, who gave her a $ 1, 000 contribution the next year.

In 1912, Fairbanks supported Taft's re-election against Roosevelt's Bull Moose candidacy.

Yet balanced against these achievements were: Taft's acceptance of a tariff with protective schedules that outraged progressive opinion ; his opposition to the entry of the state of Arizona into the Union because of its progressive constitution ; and his growing reliance on the conservative wing of his party.

Counter-criticism against Taft's statements was vital to his failure to secure the Republican nomination for President in 1948.

Dirksen garnered attention at the convention when he gave a speech attacking New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, a liberal Republican and the leading supporter of Taft's opponent for the Republican presidential nomination, General Dwight Eisenhower.

In the run-up to the London Radiotelegraph Convention in 1912 ( essentially an international gentlemen's agreement on use of the radio band, non-binding and, on the high seas, completely null ), and amid concerns about the safety of marine radio following the sinking of the on April 15 of that year ( although there were never allegations of radio interference in that event ), the New York Herald of April 17, 1912, headlined President William Howard Taft's initiative to regulate the public airwaves in an article titled " President Moves to Stop Mob Rule of Wireless.

On April 8, the day after Taft's letter, Dr. Jokichi Takamine, the Japanese chemist famous as the discoverer of adrenaline and takadiastase, was in Washington with Midzuno, the Japanese consul in New York City.

In August 1920, Panzram burgled Taft's New Haven home, stealing a large amount of jewelry and bonds, as well as Taft's Colt M1911. 45 caliber handgun, which Panzram then used in several murders.