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William Taft led a long and austere career in politics up until his death in 1930. He never quite left the limelight, and worked until his dying days as a public servant.

The William Taft timeline begins on September 15, 1857, when Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He would later move to Connecticut to attend Yale like the rest of his family, and graduated as second in his class in 1878. He then went to law school and later became an assistant prosecutor.

From 1890 to 1892 Taft served as the U.S. solicitor general, and then moved on to become a federal circuit court judge for the next eight years. Later he became the secretary of war under the command of William McKinley, and after McKinley stepped down in 1909 Taft stepped in to take the role of president for the next four years. He left that post in 1913.