William Howard Taft is sandwiched between Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and has a shadowy image, but its policy is called dollar diplomacy, which is the opposite of Theodore Roosevelt's diplomacy, and American history. Had a great influence on.
It may be famous as a signator of the Katsura-Taft Agreement in Japan.
William Howard Taft until becoming president
William Howard Taft was born in Ohio in 1857. The post-Civil War presidents are overwhelmingly from Ohio, but if you think about it, there may not be a flashy president from Ohio.
His father acted as a lawyer and was Secretary of the Army under President Ulysses Grant.
William graduated from Yale University and started his career as a lawyer at Cincinnati Law School. By the way, he was second in the seating order at Yale University.
William, who served as a county prosecutor, a domestic retiree, and a judge for the Ohio High Judge, was the youngest ever to be appointed Solicitor General during President Benjamin Harrison and became a law professor at the University of Cincinnati from 1896.
He was appointed Governor-General of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, and in 1904 by Theodore Roosevelt as Secretary of the Army as well as his father. The Katsura Taft Agreement is the agreement signed at this time.
After that, Theodore Roosevelt nominated William Howard as his successor because he served as the second president, and for that reason he was elected president and became the 27th president of the United States.
The 27th President of the United States
William Howard basically intended to follow Theodore Roosevelt's guidelines. Enacted anti-monopoly law, reformed government system, improved postal business, educated the so-called committee, embarked on many things such as amendment of Article 16 of the US Constitution, inherited Theodore Roosevelt's line of domestic affairs However, in contrast to Theodore Roosevelt's diplomacy, which was tough on diplomacy, he developed a diplomacy called "dollar diplomacy."
This is to control Latin America by economic power without force, aiming to open the door of China, and in China, a Shikoku loan (a loan to the Qing dynasty by the four countries of Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and the United States) ), But Theodore Roosevelt was dissatisfied with this. The background is probably the existence of Japan and Russia aiming to advance into China, and there was a part that crushed Theodore's men who arbitrated between the two countries under the Treaty of Portsmouth.
Therefore, in the second election, Theodore Roosevelt himself ran for the presidential election, which broke the Republican vote and eventually defeated Democrat Woodrow Wilson.
William Howard Taft after that
After his term, William worked towards the realization of world peace, and after World War I was appointed by President Harding as Chief Judge of the Federal Supreme Court and remained in that position until his death in 1930.