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William Howard Taft Supreme Court Appointment Cartoons

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Title	William Howard Taft Supreme Court Appointment Cartoons
Subject	Presidents and Politics Literary Ohio Presidents Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 Judges Political cartoons United States. Supreme Court Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio) New York (New York)
Description	Two cartoons published in the satirical magazine Judge detail President William Howard Taft's appointment of Charles Evans Hughes, governor of New York, to the Supreme Court. The appointment caused a controversy because both Hughes and Taft were affiliated with the Republican Party. Taft later became the only former president to serve as chief justice of the Supreme Court. The cartoons are one page each and measure 13" x 9.5" (33.02 x 24.13 cm). William Howard Taft (1857-1930), the twenty-seventh president of the United States, accepted his party's nomination for the presidency from the front lawn of his half-brother's home, now the Taft Museum of Art. Prior to that time, William Howard was a lawyer in his native Cincinnati and in 1904 had been appointed secretary of war by President Theodore Roosevelt. Following his presidency, Taft become chief justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, the only president to achieve this distinction. James Albert Wales (1852-1886) was born in Clyde, Ohio. He worked as a wood engraver and cartoonist in Toledo and Cleveland before moving to New York to work for Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper and Puck. Wales was a founder of Judge, a satirical magazine that competed with Puck and eventually exceeded it in popularity. Judge, published between the early 1880s to the late 1930s, used black-and-white as well as color cartoons to comment on national events. Wales died of a heart attack at the age of 35 and was buried near his home in Clyde.
Creator	Judge Publishing Company
Date of Original	April 09, 1910; May 21, 1910
Collection	Judge Presidential Political Cartoons
Source	Published material Spec Coll AP2 J8x Vol 58 # 1486 Vol 58 # 1492
Submitting Institution	Ohio University, Mahn Center for Archives & Special Collections
Type	Text

Title	Om2600_2564252_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	Om2600_2564252_001.tif
Image Height	3223
Image Width	4438
File Size	4283.076 KB
Full Text	THE RISING SON OF NEW YORK.

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