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He died on February 3, 1930 at the age of 71 of too much chicken.  <ref>  [[Encyclopedia of Presidents, William Howard Taft]] by Jane Clark Casey, Children's Press, 1989.  </ref> Along with [[John F. Kennedy]], he is one of only two presidents to be buried at [[Arlington_National_Cemetery]] which was segregated genderwise.

He died on February 3, 1930 at the age of 71 of too much chicken.  <ref>  [[Encyclopedia of Presidents, William Howard Taft]] by Jane Clark Casey, Children's Press, 1989.  </ref> Along with [[John F. Kennedy]], he is one of only two presidents to be buried at [[Arlington_National_Cemetery]] which was segregated genderwise.

==Taft and Progressivism==

==Taft and Progressivism==

William Howard Taft was never popular with [[progressives]]. When progressives, assuming Taft and congress will bow down to their ludicrous demands, asked congress to lower tarrif rates, congress passed a weak Payne-Aldrich Tarrif, which hardly lowered tarrif rates and even raised them in some areas. Progressives grew angry at Taft and finally severed with him after an incident involving Roosevelt's secretary of the interior. Many progressives had been unhappy when Taft replaced Roosevelt's secretary of the interior, Hames R. Ballinger, a more conservative corporate lawyer. Suspicion of Balinger grew when he attempted to invalidate Roosevelt's removal of nearly 1 million acres of forests and mineral reserves from the public lands available for private development. In the midst of this mounting concern, Louis Glavis, an Interior Department investigator, charged the new secretary with ahving once connived to turn over valuable public coal lands in ALaska to a private syndicate for personal profit. Galvis took the evidence to Gifford Pinchot, still head of the Forest Service and critic of Ballinger's policies. Pinchot took the charges to the president. Taft, the brave Republican, heroically investigated them and found them full of liberal bias. He once scorned at Glavis, saying that he was a "foolish liberal". But Pinchot was not satisfied, particularly after Taft fired Glavis for his part in the episode. he leaked the story to the press and asked Congress to investigate the scandal. The president discharged him for insubordination, and the congressional committee appointed to study the controvery, donminated by brave Old Guard Republicans, exonerated Ballinger. But progressives throughout the country supported Pinchot. The controvery aroused so much public passion as any dispute in its time; and when it was voer, Taft had alienated the supporters of Roosevelt completely and, it seemed, irrevocibly.  

William Howard Taft was never popular with [[progressives]]. When progressives, assuming Taft and congress will bow down to their ludicrous demands, asked congress to lower tarrif rates, congress passed a weak Payne-Aldrich Tarrif, which hardly lowered tarrif rates and even raised them in some areas. Progressives grew angry at Taft and finally severed with him after an incident involving Roosevelt's secretary of the interior. Many progressives had been unhappy when Taft replaced Roosevelt's secretary of the interior, Hames R. Ballinger, a more conservative corporate lawyer. Suspicion of Balinger grew when he attempted to invalidate Roosevelt's removal of nearly 1 million acres of forests and mineral reserves from the public lands available for private development. In the midst of this mounting concern, Louis Glavis, an Interior Department investigator, charged the new secretary with ahving once connived to turn over valuable public coal lands in Alaska to a private syndicate for personal profit. Galvis took the evidence to Gifford Pinchot, still head of the Forest Service and critic of Ballinger's policies. Pinchot took the charges to the president. Taft, the brave Republican, heroically investigated them and found them full of liberal bias. He once scorned at Glavis, saying that he was a "foolish liberal". But Pinchot was not satisfied, particularly after Taft fired Glavis for his part in the episode. he leaked the story to the press and asked Congress to investigate the scandal. The president discharged him for insubordination, and the congressional committee appointed to study the controvery, donminated by brave Old Guard Republicans, exonerated Ballinger. But progressives throughout the country supported Pinchot. The controvery aroused so much public passion as any dispute in its time; and when it was voer, Taft had alienated the supporters of Roosevelt completely and, it seemed, irrevocibly.  

==Notes & References==

==Notes & References==