He is later awarded a Gold medal from U. S. President William Howard Taft for this feat.

Fairbanks withdrew from the race, and would later support Taft for re-election against Roosevelt in the 1912 election.

Eight years later, President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office which was eventually moved as the section was expanded.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

William Howard Taft ( September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930 ) was the 27th President of the United States ( 1909 – 1913 ) and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States ( 1921 – 1930 ).

This appointment allowed Taft to remain involved in the Philippines and Roosevelt also assured Taft he would support his later appointment to the Court, while Taft agreed to support Roosevelt in the Presidential election of 1904.

In late 1911, President Taft called for a “ central organization in touch with associations and chambers of commerce throughout the country .” Just four months later, on April 12, 1912, Taft created the United States Chamber of Commerce as a counterbalance to the rise of the labor movement at the time.

Some months later Wilson met with Taft ( Knox was out of town on vacation ), and upon hearing the information, the President immediately and unilaterally ordered a mobilization of 25, 000 troops to the Mexican border as well as naval maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.

Four years later, Presidents William Howard Taft and Woodrow Wilson sent a commission of Americans to study cooperative credit systems for farmers in Europe.

Five Solicitors General have later served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft ( who was Chief Justice of the United States ), Stanley Forman Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Elena Kagan.

Many other oil and gas accumulations were discovered around Taft during the early-to-mid-20th century, notably the Midway field ( near Fellows, California ), Sunset field ( later found to be part of the same trend, accounting for the modern combined name of Midway-Sunset ), and the Buena Vista.

Standard Oil, later the Standard Oil Company of California ( modern Chevron ), made Taft its corporate operational headquarters.

In 1712, Mendon was the birthplace of Lydia Chapin, who became America's first legal woman voter, known later as Lydia Chapin Taft, or simply Lydia Taft.

Other descendants were Ezra T. Benson and his grandson, Ezra Taft Benson, former Secretary of Agriculture under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, later 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

The town, once home to the Nipmuc, was settled by Europeans from Braintree in the 1660s, including the Taft family, ( a later political dynasty ).

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.

" Taft later repeated this concern.

The garden was later modified and renamed as the Blanca Noel Taft Memorial Garden.

Roosevelt dismissed the complaint as " trifling ", and Taft, in his usual style, let it go.

When Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft dismissed Miller's charges of voting irregularities in Highland, Hocking and Warren Counties, Miller filed suit in the Ohio Supreme Court.

When Ohio Secretary of State Bob Taft dismissed Miller's charges of voting irregularities in Highland, Hocking, and Warren Counties, Miller filed suit in the Ohio Supreme Court.

More trouble came when Taft fired Gifford Pinchot, a leading conservationist and close ally of Roosevelt.

Conservationists sided with Pinchot, and Taft alienated yet another vocal constituency.

Pinchot ’ s authority was substantially undermined by the election of President William Howard Taft in 1908.

He received a sympathetic response from Alexander Shaw, Overton Price and Pinchot, who helped him to prepare the presentation for Taft.

At the same time, Taft tried to conciliate Pinchot and affirm his administration's pro-conservation stance.

Pinchot praised Glavis as a " patriot ", openly rebuked Taft, and asked for Congressional hearings into the propriety of Ballinger's dealings.

The firing of Pinchot, a close friend of Teddy Roosevelt, alienated many progressives within the Republican party and drove a wedge between Taft and Roosevelt himself, leading to the split of the Republican Party in the 1912 presidential election.

In 1908, he was offered the vice-presidential nomination by William Howard Taft, but he declined it to run again for Governor.

Eisenhower defeated Taft for the nomination, having won critical delegate votes from Texas.

In defeating Taft for the nomination, it became necessary for Eisenhower to appease the right wing Old Guard of the Republican Party ; his selection of Richard M. Nixon as the Vice-President on the ticket was designed in part for that purpose.

The Taft Administration saw the huge Honduran debt, over $ 120 miilion, as a contributing factor to this instability and began efforts to refinance the largely British debt with provisions for a United States customs receivership or some similar arrangement.

President William Howard Taft devoted a considerable portion of his First Annual Message to Congress ( December 7, 1909 ) to the Liberian question, noting the close historical ties between the two countries that gave an opening for a wider intervention:

Every president since Taft, except for Jimmy Carter, threw out at least one ceremonial first ball or pitch for Opening Day, the All-Star Game, or the World Series, usually with much fanfare.

The fictional Taft University, where Susan teaches, was also a primary setting for the Spenser novel Playmates, and the non-Spenser novel Love and Glory.

At the end of his second term, Roosevelt promoted his friend William Howard Taft for the 1908 Republican nomination.

He lost to Democrat Woodrow Wilson, as the Taft conservatives gained control of the Republican party for decades to come.

He chose not to run for another term in 1908, and supported William Taft for the presidency, instead of Fairbanks.

Roosevelt certified William Howard Taft to be a genuine " progressive " in 1908, when Roosevelt pushed through the nomination of his Secretary of War for the Presidency.

Taft ignored the risks and tackled the tariff boldly, on the one hand encouraging reformers to fight for lower rates, and then cutting deals with conservative leaders that kept overall rates high.

The resulting Payne-Aldrich tariff of 1909 was too high for most reformers, but instead of blaming this on Senator Nelson Aldrich and big business, Taft took credit, calling it the best tariff ever.

After he finally broke with Taft, Roosevelt saw himself as the only person who could save the Republican party from defeat in the upcoming Presidential election and announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination.

In 1890, Taft was appointed Solicitor General of the United States and in 1891 a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Riding a wave of popular support for fellow Republican Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency.