William
Taft was born on September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was an attorney
general under President Ulysses S. Grant, and an ambassador under President
Chester A. Arthur. Taft had a wife by the name of Helen (Nellie) Taft. He was a
lawyer and from a politically prominent family. In 1904, Taft became secretary
of war for Theodore Roosevelt. Taft became president in March 1909. In 1921,
Taft was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by President Warring G.
Harding. He was the first president to start the tradition of throwing the
first pitch of the baseball season in 1910.
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