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8 unusual facts about Taft


Bobby Kemp

After attending Taft College, a junior college in Taft, California, he played college football for Cal State-Fullerton for two seasons, with five interceptions his junior year (1979) and three his senior year (1980).

Reed Slatkin

His Federal Bureau of Prisons registration number is 24057-112 and he was initially incarcerated at the Taft Community Correctional Institution in Taft, California.

Taft, Minnesota

The community of Taft is named after former American President William Howard Taft, who was in office from 1909 to 1913.

Fredenberg Township is also in the area.

Taft is an unincorporated community in Grand Lake Township, Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States.

Taft, Oklahoma

In 1973, the citizens of Taft elected Lelia Foley as the first African American female mayor in the United States.

Taft, Texas

Schools that serve the city include Woodrow Petty Elementary (PK-2), East Elementary (3-5), Taft Junior High School (6-8), and Taft High School (9-12).

The ranch was built and owned by the half-brother of President William Howard Taft, Charles Phelps Taft.


Baclaran LRT Station

The station is located on the last stretches of Taft Avenue, in the Pasay City portion of Baclaran, and, like all other stations on the LRT-1, Baclaran terminal is above-ground on viaduct.

Barbara E. Mink

Studying with local artists — Stan Taft, Bill Benson, Bente King and Thomas Buechner — Mink has received formal training in landscapes and botanical illustration.

Charles Phelps Taft Research Center

The Center was founded in 1930 by Anna Sinton Taft in memory of her husband, Charles Phelps Taft.

Charles Taft

Charles Phelps Taft (1843–1929), U.S. Congressman from Ohio and brother of President William Howard Taft

De La Salle Brothers Philippine District

In 1921, the Brothers transferred the school from its original site in Paco, Manila to the then-wooded newly constructed Taft Avenue in Malate, Manila because of the increasing school population.

Five Easy Pieces

Bobby Dupea (Jack Nicholson) works in a California oil field (shot in and around the city of Taft in the San Joaquin Valley) with his friend Elton (Billy "Green" Bush), who has a wife and baby son.

George Strong

George Templeton Strong (1820–1875), his son, diarist during the American Civil War, worked at Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft

Heald Square Monument

Following Taft's 1936 death, the sculpture was completed by his associate Leonard Crunelle.

Henry D. Lindsley

His father was a judge and his maternal uncle, Jacob M. Dickinson, was a judge and the Secretary of War in President Taft's Cabinet.

Isaac T. Stoddard

Isaac Taft Stoddard (1851 Whitney Point, Broome County, New York - 1914) was an American lawyer, businessman and politician from Arizona.

James Francis Smith

In March, 1910, four months after his return to the United States, Taft appointed Smith to the United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

James Sherman

James S. Sherman, Vice President of the United States under President William Howard Taft, 1909–1912

Jessie Taft

Two decades later Taft was to adopt a boy, Everett, the first-born son of Milo Hastings.

Taft and Robinson moved to Flourtown, Pennsylvania close by Carson Valley School, where they were close friends with the staff.

Jessie Taft (June 24, 1882 in Dubuque, Iowa – June 7, 1960 in Flourtown, Pennsylvania) was an early American authority on child placement and therapeutic adoption.

Live from Nowhere, Volume 1

Initially planned as a souvenir of the 2005 Taft Theatre concert, technical problems with the 2005 recording resulted in the disc becoming a compilation of songs from the 2004 show at the venue, and two unspecified performances from 2005, showcasing the band just prior to the release of Drunkard's Prayer as well as towards the end of that album's subsequent tour.

Los Angeles Times bombing

By mid-1912, a number of prominent individuals — including social workers Jane Addams and Lillian Wald, industrialist Henry Morgenthau, Sr., journalist Paul Kellogg, jurist Louis Brandeis, economist Irving Fisher, and pacifist minister John Haynes Holmes — had asked President Taft to appoint a commission on industrial relations to ease economic tensions in the country.

Lupao, Nueva Ecija

The Second Philippine Commission (the Taft Commission) acting as the upper house of a bicameral legislature then issued Act No.82 in 1901, “The 1901 municipal code” provided for popularly elected presidents (mayor), vice presidents (vice-mayor), and councillors to serve on municipal boards.

Martin Institute

William Marcellus Howard - United States Congressman (1897–1911) and Taft-appointee to the United States Tariff Board (1911–1913)

Mehan Garden

The Garden is the open space off Liwasang Bonifacio (across the Philippine Post Office Main Building), bounded by Taft Avenue, LRT Central Terminal, the Metropolitan Theater, and Manila City Hall.

Nellie Walker

When Taft died in 1936, leaving much of the Heald Square Monument – a sculpture group of George Washington, Robert Morris and Haym Salomon – undone, she was one of several sculptors who were commissioned to finish the piece (1941).

Nir, Iran

Nir District, a subdivision of Taft County, Yazd Province, Iran

Ogle County Courthouse

The monument was designed by sculptor Lorado Taft in 1911 and Chicago architects Allen Bartlit Pond and Irving Kane Pond designed the structure that encompasses Taft's sculptures.

Republican National Convention

The 1912 Republican convention saw the business-oriented faction supporting William Howard Taft turn back a challenge from former president Theodore Roosevelt, who boasted broader popular support and even won a primary in Taft's home state of Ohio.

Rufus Hussey

Rufus Taft Hussey (12 March 1919 – 24 February 1994) grew up in Randolph County, North Carolina.

Serra Mesa, San Diego

Escala, along with Fenton Parkway (Costco) are part of Mission Valley (92108), but feed into the Taft Middle School service area.

Shove the Sun Aside

It was recorded at Steve Vai's recording studio '1720 TAFT' except for the drums which were recorded at Vai's 'Mothership' studio.

Taft Avenue MRT Station

The station is named after Taft Avenue, which is named after former U.S. President and US Chief Justice William Howard Taft, who served as Governor-General of the Philippines from 1901 to 1903.

Taft High School

Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut, founded by Horace Dutton Taft, William Howard Taft's brother

Taft Union High School

The Conley High School District became the Taft Union High School District in July 1920 by including Elk Hills, Midway, Mckittrick and Olig elementary school districts.

Taft–Katsura Agreement

In 1924, historian Tyler Dennett described the memorandum of the conversation as containing "the text of perhaps the most remarkable 'executive agreement' in the history of the foreign relations of the United States".

The Michelangelo

The George Hall Orchestra (sometimes called the George Hall Taft Hotel Orchestra) performed from the hotel on Monday through Saturday at noon on CBS Radio, starring Dolly Dawn.

Turnip Day Session

By doing this, Taft amplified Truman's case against the "Do-nothing Eightieth Congress" and arguably contributed to his November victory.

Tyler Dennett

Dennett published "President Roosevelt's Secret Pact with Japan" in 1924, which came to be known as the Taft–Katsura Agreement.

United States presidential election in New York, 1912

Taft's most significant wins in the state were his victories in Albany County, home to the state capital of Albany, and Onondaga County, home to the city of Syracuse, while most of his victories came from the many rural counties upstate.

Wallace H. White, Jr.

According to John Gunther's 1947 book Inside U.S.A., as the titular party floor leader, "his chief function is to hold the balance between two much more dominant and vivid men, Taft and Vandenberg...Everybody likes White; few people pay much attention to him."

William Howard Taft III

His task as ambassador was made easier by the fact that John A. Costello, Taoiseach 1954-57 was a personal friend; Taft described Costello as "pleasant and unassuming" whereas he had found Éamon de Valera "formal and aloof".

William S. Mailliard

He was born in Belvedere, California; attended elementary and secondary schools in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the Taft School, Watertown, Connecticut, 1933–1935.

WTVN

Great American retained WTVN and WLVQ but not WTVN-TV (now WSYX), which was sold to former Taft shareholder Robert Bass and his new company, Anchor Media.

WWRM

WYNF's studios moved from St. Petersburg to Tampa, at 504 Reo Street (near Tampa International Airport), home of Taft's WDAE AM 1250.


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