Mr. TAFT

William Taft was the 27th president of the United States of America. His term lasted from 1909 - 1913 and he was the only President to have been the Solicitor General or to have served on the Supreme Court of the United States.

“President Roosevelt made him Secretary of War, and by 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. The Republican Convention nominated him the next year.” William Howard Taft

“Despite his initial hesitancy about it, Taft’s service in the Philippines from 1900 to 1903 was fulfilling and largely successful. While there, he twice turned down President Roosevelt’s offer of a Supreme Court appointment in order to finish his work. Becoming governor of the islands in 1901, Taft abandoned the brutal and bloody tactics the U.S. military governmnet had used to squash the nationalist rebellion. By the time he left the islands to become Roosevelt’s secretary of war in 1903, Taft had constructed a functioning civil regime and pacified the islands. At the same time, Taft fully subscribed to the view that Filipinos were not capable of self-rule. He believed that independence could only come to the undeveloped nation after a long period of U.S. tutelage and protection.” Miller Center of Public Affairs

He was the biggest trust-buster of all the presidents and beagn this practice after his predecessor, Theodore Roosevelt. However, some people did not like him because he relied on his reaction for decisions. Overall President William Taft had a few rough edges, but was a good president in the long run.