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| | Taft, William Howard - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | TAFT, WILLIAM HOWARD [Taft, William Howard] 1857-1930, 27th President of the United States (1909-13) and 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921-30), b. |
 | | Taft became a close adviser to the President and was prominent in Latin American affairs, conducting the delicate negotiations attending U.S. intervention in Cuba in 1906. |
 | | Roosevelt chose Taft as his successor, and the Republican party named him as presidential candidate in the election of 1908, in which he defeated William Jennings Bryan. |
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