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Title	William Howard Taft Bible
Subject	Presidents and Politics Religion in Ohio Presidents Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Bibles Presidential inaugurations
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio) Washington (District of Columbia)
Description	President William Howard Taft was inaugurated on March 4, 1909, and this bible was used in the ceremony. It was used again on October 3, 1921, when Taft was administered the oath of chief justice of the United States. There are signatures inside of William Howard Taft and Chief Justice Melville Weston Fuller. Chief Justice Fuller also testifies that this was the bible upon which Taft was sworn in as president. The seal of the Supreme Court is affixed to the page beneath the signatures. The Bible is 8" x 12" (20.32 x 30.48 cm). Taft (1857-1930), the twenty-seventh president of the United States (1909-1913), was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. The son of Alphonso Taft, a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale and returned to Cincinnati to study and practice law. Taft was appointed a federal circuit judge at 34. In 1904 President Theodore Roosevelt named him secretary of war, and by 1907 had decided that Taft should be his successor. The Republican Convention nominated him the next year. Taft's administration initiated 80 antitrust suits and Congress submitted to the states amendments for a federal income tax and the direct election of senators. A postal savings system was established, and the Interstate Commerce Commission was directed to set railroad rates. In 1912, when the Republicans re-nominated Taft, Roosevelt led the Progressives, thus guaranteeing the election of Woodrow Wilson. Taft served as professor of law at Yale until President Warren G. Harding made him chief justice of the United States.
Date of Original	1909
Source	Audiovisual material
Submitting Institution	William Howard Taft National Historic Site
Type	StillImage
Format	picture

Title	Om1839_2816542_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om1839_2816542_001.tif
Image Height	2537
Image Width	1787
File Size	1286.747 KB

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