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William Howard Taft was born in 1857 and died in 1930. Taft was the son of a judge and was a graduate of Yale University. At age 34, Taft became a federal circuit judge for his love of politics. in 1907, President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Taft as Secretary of Defense and later, he would become the next president when Roosevelt's term ended.

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