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Election results. Privacy policy About Ballotpedia Disclaimers Login. Total Votes. Election results via: David Leip's Atlas of U. Presidential Elections. Preceded by: Edward Douglass White. Supreme Court Seat 1. Succeeded by: Charles Evans Hughes. Preceded by Theodore Roosevelt. President of the United States Succeeded by Woodrow Wilson D. Succeeded by: Henry Franklin Severens. Executive Branch. Active justices. He graduated second in his class at Yale College and was serving as a judge by the age of Taft followed that role with an eight-year appointment as a federal appeals judge.
By , Taft was considered a top contender for the next Supreme Court opening. President William McKinley offered Taft a position as the civilian and military governor of the Philippines, with an understanding that Taft could return to serve on the Supreme Court, if an opening occurred while McKinley was still in office.
Roosevelt also offered Taft a chance to serve on the Supreme Court, which Taft then declined, feeling that he had to complete the job he had been tasked with in the Philippines first. Taft defeated William Jennings Bryan in a hard-fought campaign to become the 27th President of the United States. His four-year term was marked by a growing feud with his former political friend, Roosevelt, culminating with a disastrous election with both men losing in an electoral college landslide to the Democrat, New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson.
His tenure, from March 4, , to April 4, , is the shortest of any U. Harrison, who was born into a prominent Virginia family, joined the Topping the scales at over pounds, William Howard Taft was a true political heavyweight. William Seward was a politician who served as governor of New York, as a U.
Seward spent his early career as a lawyer before winning a seat in the New York State Senate in An ardent Over the next four years, the general directed much of U.
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