At age 34, Taft was appointed to the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals where he served for the better part of eight years. His first post in the new century was that of Chief ...

The author of an excellent biography of Theodore Roosevelt now gives us an authoritative portrait of the only man ever to hold both of the two highest offices in the United States. Mr. Pringle had ...

The grandson of “Mr. Republican” Robert A. Taft Sr. and great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the only person in American history to have been president and chief justice of the United States ...

William Howard Taft, twice the Republican presidential nominee, had been pictured on cigar bands since the 1890s when he served as a federal judge. During the 1908 campaign both Taft and his ...

At age 34, Taft was appointed to the Sixth Circuit of the United States Court of Appeals where he served for the better part of eight years. His first post in the new century was that of Chief ...