Items from eighteen presidents are featured in this online exhibition. They include a letter written by Theodore Roosevelt confiding to his daughter, Alice Roosevelt Longworth, stating that he would prefer Taft succeed him and a letter written by Taft in 1924 predicting that Calvin Coolidge would receive the Republican nomination.

Search PPOC using the subject heading " Taft, William H. (William Howard),--1857-1930" to find digital images related to Taft such as prints, photographs, and political cartoons. Search all text fields in PPOC using the phrase "William Taft" to locate additional images.

This guide contains approximately 400 items relating to presidential inaugurations, including Taft's inauguration in 1909.

William Howard Taft served as both President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. He was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio.

President William Howard Taft presided over the dedication of the New York Public Library on May 23, 1911.

On March 27, 1912, First Lady Helen Herron Taft and the Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted two Yoshino cherry trees on the northern bank of the Potomac River Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C.

On the evening of June 22, 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt asked his supporters to leave the floor of the Republican National Convention in Chicago. Republican progressives reconvened in Chicago's Orchestra Hall and endorsed the formation of a national progressive party. Roosevelt maintained that President William Howard Taft had allowed fraudulent seating of delegates in order to capture the presidential nomination from progressive forces within the party.