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Description
Title
William
Howard
Taft
Gourd
Subject
Presidents and Politics
Arts and Entertainment
Presidents
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930
Place
Cincinnati (Ohio)
Hamilton County (Ohio)
Guatemala
Description
This
gourd
carved
with an
image
of
William
Howard
Taft
was a
gift
of
Manuel
Estrada
Cabrera
, the
president
of
Guatemala
, to
Taft
in
1912
. Also
included
were
gourds
inscribed
with the
faces
of
President
Cabrera
and
Taft's
secretary
of
state
,
Philander
Knox
. This
bowl-shaped
gourd
is
26.5
"
x
4
"
(67.31
x
10.16
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
.
Creator
Chavez, M.
Date of Original
1912
Source
Historical object(s) or artifact(s)
WIHO 198
Submitting Institution
William Howard Taft National Historic Site
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
Type
StillImage
File Name
Om1832_2816506_001.tif
Image Height
1896
Image Width
2232
File Size
800.26 KB
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