Posted on 11/26/2019 7:41:54 PM PST by Perseverando
Full title: President was also Chief Justice? William H. Taft "Advancement of modern civilization ... dependent ... on the spread of Christianity "
He was the only U.S. President to be appointed Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His name was William Howard Taft , born SEPTEMBER 15, 1857.
After the Spanish-American War, Taft was appointed by President McKinley as the first Governor of the Philippines, 1901-04.
President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft as Secretary of War in 1904, then in 1906 appointed him Provisional Governor of Cuba.
In 1908, Taft ran for President against Democrat candidate William Jennings Bryan.
William Jennings Bryan edited the Omaha World Herald and founded The Commoner Newspaper.
Bryan served as a Colonel in the Spanish-American War and a Congressman from Nebraska. Later, he was Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson.
William Jennings Bryan was so popular that the State of Nebraska placed a statue of him in the U.S. Capitol's Statuary Hall.
Bryan gave over 600 public speeches in the course of his campaign for President, the most famous being "The Prince of Peace," printed in The New York Times, September 7, 1913:
"I enjoy making a political speech ... but I would rather speak on religion than on politics. I commenced speaking on the stump when I was only twenty, but I commenced speaking in the church six years earlier-and I shall be in the church even after I am out of politics ..."
Bryan reasoned:
"Man feels the weight of his sins and looks for One who is sinless ...
Religion is the foundation of morality in the individual and in the group of individuals ...
A religion which teaches personal responsibility to God gives strength to morality ...
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My mother’s great aunt had a genealogy done and I am distantly related to Taft.
Taft is an under-weighted (pun intended) president. He was treated abominably by TR in 1912.
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