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'''William Howard Taft''' was the 27th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1909 to 1913, and served as the 10th [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. A leader of the conservative half of the [[Progressive Era|progressive]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, his greatest achievement was to expel the left wing of the GOP in 1912 and to move the party, and the Supreme Court, to the right, for a generation.

'''William Howard Taft''' was the 27th [[President of the United States of America]], serving from 1909 to 1913, and served as the 10th [[Chief Justice of the United States]]. A leader of the conservative half of the [[Progressive Era|progressive]] wing of the [[Republican Party]] in the early 20th century, his greatest achievement was to expel the left wing of the GOP in 1912 and to move both the party and the Supreme Court to the right for a generation.

Taft served as Solicitor General of the United States, a federal judge, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War before being nominated for President by the 1908 Republican National Convention with the critical backing of the incumbent President and Taft's close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].  

Taft served as Solicitor General of the United States, a federal judge, Governor-General of the Philippines, and Secretary of War before being nominated for President by the 1908 Republican National Convention with the critical backing of the incumbent President and Taft's close friend [[Theodore Roosevelt]].