Taft Administration (1 h, mar 4, 1909 y – mar 4, 1913)

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President: William Howard Taft
Number: 27
Party: Republican
Home State: Ohio
Vice President: James S. Sherman (until 1912)

Prior Offices:
Solicitor General (1890-92)
Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals judge (1892-1900)
Governor-General of the Philippines (1901-03)
Provisional Governor of Cuba (1906)
Secretary of War (1904-08)

Congressional Majority Parties (Senate / House)
61st Congress: Republican / Republican
62nd Congress: Republican / Democrat

Chief Justice: Melville Fuller (until 1910)
Edward Douglass White

Notable qualities: Fattest president
Second Progressive president (not that he ran on their ticket, but he sympathized with their cause and passed legislation favorable to them)

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