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William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio to a well educated family. Taft's father was a lawyer and helped to create the Republican Party in his childhood. As he grew, he went to public schools, and before he attended Yale he entered Woodward High School. During his education in Yale, he rose to the top of his class and graduated second in his class. Afterwards, Taft attended University of Cincinnati Law School and finished in 1880. After graduation, he became the assistant prosecuter in Hamilton County in Ohio until 1882, and practiced law and became the sixth circuit judge. In 1900, Taft was appointed the Governor-General of the Phillipines, and his wife's ambition for him to become President began. From then on, he rose throught the ranks to be the Secretary of State for Theodore Roosevelt.
 * __William Howard Taft__**

In the elections of 1908, Roosevelt chose William Howard Taft to succeed him because Roosevelt didn't want to run for a third term. Roosevelt prepared Taft for presidency by choosing him for Secretary of State, and Roosevelt was very happy with Taft at first, because he first believed he had the same intentions as Roosevelt thought he did. Taft ran for the Republicans, and his main rival was William Jennings Bryan, who gave the famous speech that helped him be nominated for the Democrats. The Democrats had no chance of winning with Bryans, and the election resulted in a huge landslide for Taft, with 321 electoral votes, he carried the Northeast to the west. Bryans only won 162 electoral votes and only carried the south and part of the Northwest.
 * __Election of 1908__**

Taft's presidency wasn't what everyone expected, because they all expected him to be similar to Roosevelt. One of the first Taft passed in office was the Payne-Aldrich Tariff which raised tarrifs, and this made the public mad. During his campaign he promised to lower tariff, instead he followed the conservative Republicans and supported passing the bill. Also, he was the biggest trustbuster, busting more than Roosevelt during his term, because he couldn't see the good from the bad trusts. Taft's presidency was very conservative, throughout his term, he supported all the conservative Republicans in office, like supporting the speaker of the house during his term who was very conservative.
 * __Presidential Term__**

The Dollar Diplomacy was Taft's foreign policy, he supported American buisness overseasto promote the U.S. trade, and he used America's investments to help him. His believe was that by promoting buisness in the Asia and Latin America, it would add stability overseas and help the U.S. market. Thus, the Dollar diplomacy was coined because he favored the use of money to help enforce the United States power. The first test of his foreign policy was in China where he was able to join the powers of Europe to create railroads in China. His diplomacy worked, but wasn't as strong as Roosevelt's policy, because Taft's policy didn't really enforce American power.
 * __Dollar Diplomacy__**

William Howard Taft was still a busy man after his presidency, he became the only president to also serve as a Chief Justice. He couldn't serve another term because Roosevelt's Bull Moose party took away votes that could've helped him win, because Roosevelt was mad at Taft conservative term in office. He died in March 8, 1930.
 * __After Presidency__**

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