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William Howard Taft 1901 - 1904

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States, First Governor General of the Philippines Colonial Government and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.

Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale College in 1878, and from Cincinnati Law School in 1880. Then he worked in a number of local legal positions until being appointed an Ohio Superior Court judge in 1887. In 1890 Taft was appointed Solicitor General of the United States and in 1891 a judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. In 1900, President William McKinley appointed Taft Governor-General of the Philippines. In 1904, President Theodore Roosevelt, then a political ally of Taft, appointed Taft Secretary of War in order to groom Taft as his successor to the presidency.

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President of the United States

Commemorate the Opening of the Mint

Manila P. I. 1920

Wilson Dollar

Gold

EXTREMELY RARE

Mintage: 5

Silver

Mintage: 2,200

Copper

Mintage: 3,700

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