Taft promoted a reduction in the tariffs on sugar and tobacco in the Philippines, a position with which Roosevelt disagreed ; Taft offered to resign but this was refused by Roosevelt.

" He was my best friend and he refused to speak to me ," Rank said ( Taft, 1958, p. xvi ).

The U. S. Supreme Court refused a last-minute request to stop his execution, and Governor Bob Taft also denied clemency.

The United States Government refused to allow him to take up this posting because they wanted to negotiate this issue with their own special mission to the Vatican under William Howard Taft.

There were also very informal talks with future president William Howard Taft about trying for the nomination, but Taft refused these motions as evidenced by a letter to Henry Hoyt, the Solicitor General, in 1903.

President Taft refused to sign the resolution because of the constitution's provision allowing for recall of judges.

The battle between William Howard Taft | Taft and Roosevelt bitterly split the Republican Party ; Taft's people dominated the party until 1936.

Taft served in this capacity until shortly before his death in 1930.

In spite of his failure to be re-elected, Taft achieved what he felt were his main goals as President: keeping permanent control of the party and keeping the courts sacrosanct until they were next threatened.

Before Abraham Lincoln, no President had a beard ; after Lincoln until William Howard Taft, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache.

Screen Gems would distribute until 1967, when Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting.

Taft was the original owner of WKRC-TV, until 1996.

In 1924, he and his brother Charles helped form the law partnership Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, with whom he continued to be associated until his death and which continues to carry his name today.

( Democrats joked that " Taft has the best mind in Washington, until he makes it up.

Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Judge Perry retired from the firm during the second year of the partnership, but the connection between Judge Taft and Mr. Smith continued until the death of the former in 1897.

New Hampshire has held a presidential primary since 1916, but it did not begin to assume its current importance until 1952 after the state simplified its ballot access laws in 1949 seeking to boost voter turnout, when Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated his broad voter appeal by defeating Robert A. Taft, " Mr. Republican ," who had been favored for the nomination, and Estes Kefauver defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman, leading Truman to abandon his campaign for a second term of his own.

Former President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921.

" Despite her interest in music, Carpenter never considered performing publicly until, shortly after graduating from Taft, her father suggested that she perform at a local open-mike bar, a stressful experience for the shy Carpenter, who recalled, " I thought I was going to barf.

Taft served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1955-1962 until winning election to the United States House of Representatives.

His son, William Howard Taft, was the 27th President of the United States and was a member of Yale's Skull and Bones like his founder father ; another son, Charles Phelps Taft, supported the founding of Wolf's Head Society at Yale ; both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I ( also Skull and Bones ) and Robert Taft Jr., were U. S. Senators ; his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007.

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.

Metzenbaum eventually won Young's Senate seat back from Taft and held it for the Democratic Party until his retirement.

Straus left the Commerce Department in 1909 when William Howard Taft became president and became U. S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire until 1910.

Nagel was a corporate attorney for Adolphus Busch when President William Howard Taft chose him, in 1909, as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, a position he held until the end of the Taft administration in 1913.

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.

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.

The $ 4. 2 million goal of the first phase of the campaign was surpassed, resulting in the construction of the E. Hoover Taft, Jr. Classroom Building.

By the time Taft became Chief Justice, the increased caseload resulting from World War I and the enforcement of Prohibition had contributed to broad support for reform of the federal judiciary.

Hoover is the most recent cabinet secretary to be elected President of the United States, as well as one of only two Presidents ( along with William Howard Taft ) to have been elected without previous electoral experience or high military rank.

But, Taft conceded, with his extensive involvement as the most prominent member of the cabinet, that he was the most " available " man ; thus he agreed that were he to be nominated for president, he would put his personal convictions aside and run a vigorous campaign.

Taft, in fashioning his cabinet, showed also that he was not unwilling to depart to some degree from Roosevelt's progressivism ; he named an anti-progressive, Philander Chase Knox Secretary of State, who had primary influence over other appointments.

Taft, ever reluctant to dismiss cabinet members, nevertheless used the resignations of Ballinger and War Secretary Dickinson to modify the complexion of the cabinet by appointing more progressive Republicans.

Taft ordered each department to begin submitting its requests to the cabinet for review.

Former Eisenhower cabinet member Ezra Taft Benson — a leading Mormon — spoke in favor of the John Birch Society, but in January 1963 the LDS church issued a statement distancing itself from the Society.

On 1901-01-01, like the four other remaining Commissioners ( Commissioner Taft having been appointed Governor on 1901-07-04 ), Ide gained executive power as well, being appointed one of the members of Taft's cabinet.

Benjamin served in the cabinet of the former Governor of Ohio Bob Taft, as director of the Ohio Department of Insurance, before which she was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, 1995 – 2002.

After being elected to two terms and rising to the second highest post in the Senate, Governor Bob Taft in 2001 asked Johnson to join his cabinet as Director of the Ohio Department of Development.

In 1876, President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Cameron to his cabinet as Secretary of War, a post his father once served in during the Lincoln administration, to succeed Alphonso Taft, who became Attorney General, and served as so until the end of Grant's presidency.

Stassen believed that if he could defeat Taft in his home state, Taft would be forced to quit the race and most of Taft's delegates would support him instead of Dewey.

Daugherty and Burton aligned themselves with supporters of William Howard Taft, Secretary of War in the Presidential administration of progressive Republican Theodore Roosevelt, and together the factional allies forced Foraker out of the U. S. Senate and into political retirement, aided by muckraking news reports that Foraker had received nearly $ 30, 000 as a political retainer from the Standard Oil Trust.

Political instability in Portugal, due to the Revolution of 1910 that deposed King Manuel II, as well as his wife's deteriorating health, forced Gage to submit his resignation to the U. S. Department of State and President Taft.

3rd Platoon was forced to pull back, and Taft was killed.

Hall and the other stockholders of the Carowinds Corporation continued to operate the theme park through 1974, though sagging attendance and mounting debt forced the company to sell to Taft Broadcasting in early 1975.

The FCC granted the waiver, but later tightened its adjacent-market ownership rules and forced Taft to sell WNEP in late 1973 as a condition of keeping Channel 29.

President William Howard Taft appointed Crane minister to China on July 16, 1909, but on the eve of his departure to his post on October 4, 1909, he was recalled to Washington and forced to resign under pressure by U. S. Secretary of State Philander C. Knox, who held him responsible for the publication in a Chicago newspaper of the U. S. government's objections to two recent treaties between Japan and China.

As a result of the affair, Alaska was on the national headlines, and President Taft was forced to send a message to Congress on February 2, 1912, insisting that they listen to Wickersham.