William Howard Taft
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About
The 27th president of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the Supreme Court who famously hated being president.
Before Fame
He was an intramural heavyweight wrestling champion during his Yale undergraduate years.
Trivia
His League to Enforce Peace sought to find solutions to world problems. Unfortunately, he was best remembered as the president who got stuck in the bathtub, despite the story not being true.
Family Life
His father, Alphonso Taft, was Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant.
Associated With
He was Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt, his predecessor.
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