jan 7, 1910 - Fires Head of US Forest Services, Gifford Pinchot. Pinchot had written Senator Jonathan Dolliver (R-IA) saying Taft had acted "through a mistaken impression of facts" with respect to the “Ballinger Affair.” Pinchot, the former Governor of Pennsylvania and close advisor to President Theodore Roosevelt. Taft's action deepens the "progressive split" in the Republican Party between Taft and Roosevelt
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jan 7, 1910
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~ 116 years ago