William Howard Taft (S&B 1878)
Chief Justice. Politician. Yale University. Skull and Bones. University of Cincinnati (LL.B.). Scottish Rite Freemason
Son of Alphonso Taft (Co-founder of Skull and Bones.)
1927 - Buck v. Bell - Steralisation of 17 year rape victim - Decision: Steralised.
11 Jul 1921 to 3 Feb 1930 - 10th Chief Justice of the United States. Nominated by President Warren G. Harding (Freemason).
On leaving office, Taft (S&B 1878) became Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School and ‘continued’ his political activity working against war through the Leaque to Enforce Peace with Henry Cabot Lodge (Delta Kappa Epsilon).
1913, The 17th Amendment Ratified stating that people will elect Senators. Before this, Senators were elected by state legislatures.
1913, The Sixteenth Amendment Ratified authorizing Congress to collect income taxes.
14/15 Apr 1912, The Sinking of the RMS Titanic off the coast of Newfoundland.
6 Jan 1912, New Mexico is admitted as the forty-seventh state.
1911, The President began to back away from his efforts to tame the trusts.
1911, The Battle of Kelley Creek in Nevada. A small group of Bannock and Shoshone killed four men in an incident known as the Last Massacre.
1911 - First use of the word ‘Autism’. Seems to align with industrial quantities of Aluminium being created
1910 to 1920, The Mexican Revolution started with an uprising led by Francisco Madero against Porfirio Díaz.
1910, Angel Island Immigration Station opened in the San Francisco Bay, California.
Jun 1910, The Postal Savings Depository Act of 1910 established the Postal Savings System.
1910 - Secret Bankers meeting on Jykle Island. Search Mind Map … Federal Reserve.
1910 - The Flexner Report (Rockefeller and Carnegie groups decided to reform medical education)
Nov 1909, The Ballinger - Pinchot (S&B1897) scandal in which Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger is accused of conspiring to defraud the public domain in the Alaskan coal fields and that the Taft (S&B 1878) administration was complicit in his actions.
Jun 1909, The Payne-Aldrich (Freemason) Tariff Act lowered tariffs on certain goods entering the US.
25 Mar 1909, The Crazy Snake Rebellion between the Creek Indians and settlers in Oklahoma.
1909, His administration continued the Antitrust Policy initiated by President Theodore Roosevelt (Freemason) that was designed to keep markets open and competitive.
1909 to 1913, Taft’s (S&B 1878) Dollar Diplomacy calling for the use of diplomatic and military action to further foreign business interests.
4 Mar 1909 to 4 Mar 1913 - 27th President of the United States
8 Feb 1909 - The Grand Master of Ohio, Charles S. Hoskinson, convened an Occasional Lodge at the Scottish Rite Cathedral in Cincinntai for the purpose of making the President-elect, William H. Taft (S&B 1878), a Mason at sight.[8]
1909 - Industrial quanitities of Aluminium start to be manufactored.
29 Sept 1906 to 13 Oct 1906 - Provisional Governor of Cuba by President Theodore Roosevelt (Freemason). (Search mind map Spainish-American War).
1904 - passed laws regarding drugs.
1 Feb 1904 to 30 Jun 1908 - 42nd United States Secretary of War by President Theodore Roosevelt (Freemason). Preceded by Elihu Root (Sigma Phi)
4 Jul 1901 to 23 Dec 1903 - Governor-General of the Philippines by President William McKinley (Freemason). Preceded by Arthur MacAuthur, Jr (Military Governor) whose term finished early due to clash with William Howard Taft (S&B 1878).
17 Mar 1892 to 15 Mar 1900 - Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit by President Benjamin Harrison. (Seat Established)
4 Feb 1890 to 20 Mar 1892 - 6th Solicitor General of the United States by President Benjamin Harrison.
Succeeded by Charles H. Aldrich (During his time as Solicitor General, Aldrich notably litigated the debated lives of United States patents, which principally involved telephone and electric light companies)
1878 - Graduated Yale, Skull and Bones Patriarch.
Died 8 Mar 1930, from TBC. Age 72.
Skull and Bones / Others / Related - to be completed.
William Howard Taft (S&B 1878)
1909 to 1913 - President of the United States - Just prior to Fed Reserve / WW1.
Nelson W. Aldrich (Freemason)
1910, Aldrich was persudaded of the necessity of a central bank for the United States.
1908 - Chairman of the National Monetary Commission.
Oct 1881 to 3 Mar 1911 - United States Senator from Rhode Island.
Henry L. Stimson (S&B 1888)
1911 to 1913 - Secretary of War (prepares U.S. army for WW1)
Eugene Hale (Son, Eugene Hale Jr S&B 1898)
18 Sep 1913 to 18 Dec 1913 - Member of the National Monetary Commission. Chairman Nelson W. Aldrich. Father-in-law to John D. Rockefeller.
Henry S. Graves (S&B 1892)
1910 to 1920 - Chief of the U.S. Forest Service
Benjamin Stickney Cable (S&B 1895)
30 Nov 1909 to 1913 - Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor, U.S. to Charles Nagel by President Willilam Howard Taft (S&B 1878)
Amos Parker Wilder (S&B 1884)
1909 to 1914 - U.S. Consul-General in Shanghai
Benjamin S. Cable (S&B 1895)
1909 to 1913 - Assistant Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (S&B 1879)
1909 to 1910- Solicitor General of the United States
Thomas Lee McClung (S&B 1892)
1909 to 1912 - Treasurer of the United States - Just prior to Fed Reserve.
Franklin MacVeagh (S&B 1862)
1909 to 1913 - Secretary of the Treasury - Just prior to Fed Reserve.
William Herbert Corbin (S&B 1889)
1909 to 1910 - Chairman Committee, 1911 to 1914, Executive Committee on inheritance taxes National Tax Association, and author of many reports read at its conferences.
John Trumbull Robinson (S&B 1893)
1908 to 1912 - U.S. Attorney for the District of Connecticut
Thomas D. Thacher (S&B 1904)
1909 to 1910 - Special Assistant to investigate election frauds.
1907 to 1910 - Assistant U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York
Lydig Hoyt (S&B 1906)
1907 - Secretary to United States, Ambassador to Great Britain Whitelaw Reid (5 Jun 1905 to 15 Dec 1912) (Delta Kappa Epsilon) by President Theodore Roosevelt (Freemason, Delta Kappa Epsilon) and William Howard Taft (S&B 1878);
Asa Palmer French (S&B 1882)
**1906 to 1914 - U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts
Gifford Pinchot (S&B 1889)
1905 to 1910 - Chief of the U.S. Forest Service
Ambrose Tighe (S&B 1879)
8 Jan 1892 - Practiced before the United States Supreme Court, by motion of William Howard Taft (S&B1978)
Hugh Robert Wilson (S&B 1906)
Feb 1912 - Secretary of the U.S. Legation at Guatemala.
1912 to 1941 - US Diplomatic Service.
1911 to 1921 - Private Secretary of the American Minister to Portugal.
[1] - Whitehouse.gov - President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878. Freemason)
[2] - Spartacus Educational.com - President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878. Freemason)
[3] - MillerCenter.org - President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878. Freemason)
[4] - Presidential-Power.org - President William Howard Taft (S&B 1878. Freemason)
[5] - Political Graveyard.com - McKinley, William, Jr. (1843-1901)
[8] - Senate.gov - James S. Sherman, 27th Vice President (1909-1912) - Sigma Phi
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