In the United States, the administration of President William Howard Taft was progressive conservative and he described himself as " a believer in progressive conservatism " and President Dwight D. Eisenhower declared himself an advocate of " progressive conservatism ".

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

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.

Senator Taft assisted the President greatly in working with the Old Guard, and was sorely missed when his death left Eisenhower with his successor William Knowland, whom Eisenhower disliked.

The plan encountered sharp opposition in Congress, mostly from the portion of the Republican Party led by Robert A. Taft that advocated a more isolationist policy and was weary of massive government spending.

He was fired in late-1974, when the station was sold to Taft Broadcasting.

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.

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.

While the crisis was building inside the Party, Roosevelt was touring Africa and Europe, to allow Taft to be his own man.

His famous speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, in August 1910 was the most radical of his career and openly marked his break with the Taft administration and the conservative Republicans.

Taft was deeply upset.

Roosevelt was attacking both the judiciary and the deep faith Republicans had in their judges ( most of whom had been appointed by McKinley, Roosevelt or Taft ).

While Roosevelt was popular with the public, most Republican politicians and party leaders supported Taft, and their support proved difficult to counter in states without primaries.

His family and supporters threw their support to Roosevelt's old military companion, General Leonard Wood, who was ultimately defeated by Taft supporter Warren G. Harding.

As a Democrat ( after his criminal indictment by the Taft Administration ), Watson was an ardent supporter of Roosevelt.

* Lincoln City, Oregon was formed in 1965 by merging the extant seaside towns of Oceanlake, Delake, and Taft, with the adjoining unincorporated areas of Nelscott and Cutler City.

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.

One of Harding's earlier decisions as President was the appointment of former President William Howard Taft as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, a position Taft had always coveted, more so than the Presidency.

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 ).

( The other Presidents who did not have prior elected office were Zachary Taylor, Ulysses S. Grant, William Howard Taft and Herbert Hoover.

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.

Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, was elected with 41 % of the popular vote ; Roosevelt got 27 %, and Taft garnered 25 %.

Running against Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive (" Bull Moose ") Party candidate Theodore Roosevelt, a former President, Wilson was elected President as a Democrat in 1912.

The three states holding primaries to select delegates without the preference component were split: California chose a slate of delegates that supported Taft ; Wisconsin elected a slate that supported Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follette, Sr., and Pennsylvania elected a slate that supported its Senator Philander C. Knox.

In 1973, the citizens of Taft elected Lelia Foley as the first African American female mayor in the United States.

The Taft – Hartley Act ( enacted in 1947 ) sought to ban political strikes by Communist-dominated labor unions by requiring all elected labor leaders to take an oath that they were not and have never been members of the Communist Party USA, and that they did not advocate violent overthrow of the U. S. government.

They had four sons: Robert Taft Jr. ( 1917 – 1993 ), who was also elected to the U. S. Senate ; Horace Dwight Taft, who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale ; William Howard Taft III ( 1915 – 1991 ), who became ambassador to Ireland ; and Lloyd Taft ( 1923 – 1985 ), who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati.

On March 27, 2004, Kevin Taft was elected the new leader of the Alberta Liberal Party.

She was succeeded by Bob Taft, who was elected Governor during the same election cycle and was waiting to be sworn in on January 11, 1999.

Taft resigned the seat a few days before his term ended, allowing Metzenbaum to be sworn in a few days early and hence have a small edge in seniority over other senators newly elected in 1976.

In 1998, O ' Connor was elected Ohio's 61st Lieutenant Governor and served in that office from 1999 to 2003 under Governor Bob Taft.

In the 2006 gubernatorial election, Strickland was elected to succeed term-limited Republican incumbent Bob Taft after defeating Ohio Secretary of State Ken Blackwell, receiving 60 % of the vote.

Splitting the progressive vote with the Democrats throughout the 1960s, the Charterites barely survived the return of Republican rule, with Charles Phelps Taft II its only elected official by 1961.

In 2001, Taft entered politics and was elected to the legislature as an Alberta Liberal Member of the Legislative Assembly ( MLA ) in the riding of Edmonton Riverview, defeating Progressive Conservative candidate and former city councillor Wendy Kinsella.

Three years later in the spring of 2004, Ken Nicol resigned as leader of the Alberta Liberal Party, and Taft was elected to replace him.

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.

When Deters was elected, he resigned as treasurer and Governor Bob Taft then appointed Lieutenant Governor Jennette B. Bradley to Deters's post.

Taft was the one who was elected.

The first armed intervention by the United States in Nicaragua occurred under President Taft.

William Howard Taft started the tradition of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch in 1910 at Griffith Stadium, Washington, D. C., on the Washington Senators ' Opening Day.

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.

His paternal grandfather was Peter Rawson Taft, a descendant of Robert Taft I, the first Taft in America, who settled in Colonial Massachusetts.

Along with his judgeship, between 1896 and 1900 Taft also served as the first dean and a professor of constitutional law at the University of Cincinnati.

From 1901 to 1903, Taft served as the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines, a position in which he was very popular with both Americans and Filipinos.

At the time, Roosevelt was convinced that Taft was a genuine " progressive " and helped push through the nomination of his Secretary of War onto the Republican ticket on the first ballot at the party convention.

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.

Dewey led the first ballot, but was far short of a majority ; Taft was second, and Willkie was a surprisingly strong third.

On the fourth ballot Willkie surged into first place, with Taft close behind ; other candidates began to drop out in favor of the two frontrunners.

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.

It was in 1940 that Dewey first clashed with Taft.

The Lincoln Memorial Commission had its first meeting the following year and former U. S. President William H. Taft was chosen as the commission's president.

( Note: Lake Gusher was formed when Taft began its early drills, first finding water, which was very much needed in the area and one of the few reason along with prostitution and booze that Taft survived while surrounding towns vanished overnight.

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.

* Lydia Taft, America's first woman voter ( birthplace )

Uxbridge played key roles in women's rights by granting town meeting voting rights to America's first woman voter, Lydia Taft, and the right to serve on juries to Massachusetts's first women jurors, and playing minor roles in the narratives of American Revolution soldier, Deborah Sampson, and abolitionist Abby Kelley Foster.

In 1909, president-elect William Howard Taft selected a White Model M 7-seat tourer as the first official automobile of the President of the United States.