William Taft Fansite

To form a good president you first need a man (or woman – perhaps we’ll be seeing that soon?) with a good education. And to get a good education, that man (or woman) needs to have gone through some form of post secondary education.

The highly intelligent and discerning president William Taft had the honor of attending not one but two post secondary institutes. Not only did he attend Yale College in his undergraduate years (where he was nicknamed both “Big Lub” because of his size and “Old Bill” as a term of endearment with his friends) he went on to study law at the University of Cincinnati.

His learning would serve him well later in life, as he not only became the president of the United States but served his final years as the chief justice of the Supreme Court, the only former president ever to have held the position.