Vice President: James S. Sherman Secretary of State: Philander C. Knox Secretary of the Treasury: Franklin MacVeagh
Secretary of War: Jacob M. Dickinson; Henry L. Stimson (from May 1911)
Attorney General: George W. Wickersham Postmaster General: Frank H. Hitchcock Secretary of the Navy: George von L. Meyer Secretary of the Interior: Richard A. Ballinger; Walter L. Fisher (from March 1911)
Secretary of Agriculture: James Wilson Secretary of Commerce and Labor: Charles Nagel
Supreme Court Appointments: Horace H. Lurton (1909); Charles Evans Hughes (1910); Willis Van Devanter (1910); Edward
D. White, Chief Justice (1910); Joseph R. Lamar (1911); Mahlon Pitney (1912)
States Admitted: New Mexico (1912); Arizona (1912)
Father: Alphonso Taft (1810-1891)
Mother: Louisa Maria Torrey Taft (1827-1907)
Wife: Helen Herron (1861-1943)
Marriage: June 19, 1886
Children: Robert Alphonso (1889-1953); Helen Herron (1891-1987); Charles Phelps (1897-1983)
William Howard Taft was the first and only president to finish third in a presidential election.
He was the first and thus far only president to serve on the Supreme Court.
He was the first president to have a presidential car.
Taft was so fat that a large bathtub was installed for him in the White House, reportedly after he got stuck in the old one.
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