Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 91. Chapters: James Monroe, John C. Calhoun, William Howard Taft, Jefferson Davis, Henry L. Stimson, Joel Roberts Poinsett, Edwin M. Stanton, Henry Knox, James Barbour, Robert Todd Lincoln, Russell A. Alger, Elihu Root, Timothy Pickering, Newton D. Baker, Lewis Cass, John Schofield, John C. Spencer, John Bell, John B. Floyd, George Dern, Joseph Holt, William H. Crawford, John Armstrong, Jr., Alphonso Taft, Stephen Benton Elkins, Simon Cameron, Henry Dearborn, Patrick J. Hurley, John W. Weeks, William L. Marcy, William W. Belknap, Redfield Proctor, Peter Buell Porter, George W. Crawford, George W. McCrary, J. Donald Cameron, Alexander Ramsey, William Eustis, John Aaron Rawlins, William Wilkins, Kenneth Claiborne Royall, John Eaton, Dwight F. Davis, James McHenry, Samuel Dexter, Robert P. Patterson, Harry Hines Woodring, Luke Edward Wright, Jacob M. Dickinson, Lindley Miller Garrison, Daniel S. Lamont, James William Good, William Crowninshield Endicott, James Madison Porter, Charles Magill Conrad. Excerpt: 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). He is the only person to have served in both offices. Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, "Big Bill" graduated from Yale College Phi Beta Kappa in 1878 and from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. He worked in local nondescript legal positions until he was tapped to serve on the Ohio Supreme Court in 1887. 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. In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft Secretary of War with the hope that he ...