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William Howard Taft COMMITTEE ON THE HISTORY OF THE FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM Register of Papers I Processed: MA Date: 1/23/56 Wli^IAM HOWARD TAFT (1857 - 1930) The papers of William Howard Taft, lawyer, U. S. Circuit Judge, Governor of the Philippines, Secretary of War, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, were given to the Library of Congress. Measure of size: 539 containers Approximate number of items: The papers are open to scholarly research under Library of Congress restrictions* •it -%r •&••%••& -A- & •%• •& "The main group of papers, comprising an estimated 500,000 letters and other items, is in the Library of Congress, and many official papers are in the .National Archives. There are some papers also in the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina, the Hayes Memorial Library, the Ohio State Archaeological and Historical Society, the New York Public Library, the Cornell University Library, the University of Rochester Library, the Yale University Library, and the Michigan Historical Collections (University of Michigan). Four volumes of Taftfs speeches, Presidential addresses, and state papers have been published, but there has been no systematic publication of the correspondence and other manuscripts•" From il National Program for the Publication of Historical Documents, 1954, P. 74. William Howard Baft II - 2 Biographical Note 1357, Sept. 15 Born, Cincinnati, Ohio 1878 B.A., Yale 1880 LL.B., Cincinnati Lav School and admitted to Ohio bar 1830 Lav reporter, Cincinnati Times and Commercial 1881-83 Prosecuting attorney, Hamilton County, Ohio 1883-87 Practiced law in Cincinnati 1886, June 19 Married Helen Herron 1887-90 Judge, Superior Court, Cincinnati 1890-92 Solicitor general of U. S. 1892-1900 U. S. Circuit Judge, 6th Circuit 1896-1900 Professor and dean of law department, Univ. of Cincinnati 1900-01 President, U. S. Philippine Commission 1901-04 First civil governor of Philippine Islands 1904.-08 Secretary of War in cabinet of Theodore Roosevelt 1909-13 President of the United States (Republican), defeated William Jennings Bryan 1912 Renominated for Presidency, defeated by Woodrow Wilson 1913-21 Kent professor of law, 1921-30 Chief Justice of the U. S. 1930, Mar. 8 Died Author of: Four Aspects of Civic Duty. 1906. Volume on Popular bovernment, containing 8 Yale lectures and 2 addresses before American Bar Association. 1913. The &nti-Trust Act and the Supreme Court. I914-* The U. S. and Peace. 1914-. Our Chief Magistrate and His Powers. 1916. Taft Papers on League of Nations. 1920. Isle See: V/ho Was Who in America, 1897-194-2, vol. I, Marouis ifr* William Howard Taft III - 3 Description of Series The 539 containers of Taft papers include l/t/t volumes of letterpress copies of correspondence dating from 1890 to 1921, Addresses and articles are bound in 42 volumes. The main body of the Presidential papers was arranged in 3 separate files by Executive Office assistants and has been kept that way. The Library has a temporary description of the various series into which the collection is divided, and a listing of letter press volumes by date. A more complete register is in preparation.
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