William Howard Taft

Aberdeen experienced the warmest March in more than 100 years, according to data from the National Weather Service in Aberdeen. The average temperature was 43.8 degrees, the second warmest March since daily temperature records have been kept. The average...

The root of the Great Recession which began in 2008 in the United States, shriveling up bank accounts and withering cash flow, is simple to banking executive and author John G. Taft. Taft, the great-grandson of the 27th U.S. President William H. Taft and...

Theodore Roosevelt was such a magnetic personality that his life story has been the subject for many authors. Edmund Morris has such a profound and enduring admiration for the former president that he has published his third volume, “Colonel...

The general rap against the Occupy Wall Street movement is that it has no clear leadership or goals. And a complaint of some Democrats against President Obama is that he hasn't found a way to get in front of it and harness its energy to work for his re-...

1857: William Howard Taft - who served as President of the United States and as U.S. chief justice - was born in Cincinnati, Ohio.1953: The Nuremberg Laws deprived German Jews of their citizenship. 1961: The United States began Operation Nougat, a...

On September 26th, 1911, President William Howard Taft came to Hutchinson to lay the Municipal Building’s cornerstone.  Today, he made a return visit.  Patriotic music and residents welcomed a thinner President Taft and Hutchinson's mayor. After...

PIERRE - This month, the South Dakota State Historical Society is noting the 100th anniversary of President William Howard Taft's visit to the state. In October of 1911, President Taft made a three-day visit through South Dakota. It was the homeward leg...

1911: President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more members when New Mexico and Arizona became states....

The 111th United States Open Golf Championship will take place next week at Congressional Country Club in Bethesda, Md., just outside of Washington, D.C. It’s a relatively easy drive of about three hours for those from the area who have tickets...