![]() President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft as secretary of war in 1904, With American field commanders then battling Filipino insurgents. Lurie devoted much of a chapter to Taft's contentious relationships Him to head the Philippine Commission, which guided the colonies' In 1900, President William McKinley asked Serving as solicitor general of the United States prior to presiding asĪ U.S. In Cincinnati, continuing as a trial judge for the Ohio courts, and Rapidly through the legal system, beginning as an assistant prosecutor Taft followed in his father's footsteps by attending Yale andīeing admitted to the bar in Cincinnati, Ohio. Self-characterization as a "progressive conservative." In the process, Lurie sought to explain Taft's Primarily through biography, relying heavily on Taft'sĬorrespondence to track his career and thinking about people and Who "modernized the presidency." Lurie approaches this task Reputation, arguing that Taft was a "progressive president" Jonathan Lurie, a legal historian, thinks Scholars uniformly have graded him "average" in comparative ![]() William Howard Taft has not fared well with historians. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative. APA style: William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative.William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative." Retrieved from 2015 Center for the Study of the Presidency 03 May. MLA style: "William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative." The Free Library. ![]()
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