Theodore Roosevelt was President before William Howard Taft and when Roosevelt decided he wasn’t going to run for re-election he believed that Taft, who was Roosevelt’s secretary of war, would make a good president. Roosevelt’s choice was ratified by the Republican Convention in 1908. William Taft was up against William Jennings Bryan and Eugene V. Debs who was a part of the Socialist Party. Taft won by a landslide 321 to 162 Electoral College votes.
William Howard Taft was definitely a person with the credentials to be President. He graduated from Yale, was on the Ohio Supreme Court, was the first governor general of the Philippines, and was secretary of war when Roosevelt was in office.
Taft was a republican but unlike most republicans
William Howard Taft was definitely a person with the credentials to be President. He graduated from Yale, was on the Ohio Supreme Court, was the first governor general of the Philippines, and was secretary of war when Roosevelt was in office.
Taft was a republican but unlike most republicans