William H. Taft

This engraving of President William H. Taft was produced by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Taft served as 27th president of the United States from 1909-1913. Before the presidency, Taft had served as a federal circuit judge, governor-general of the Philippines for President William McKinley, and as secretary of war to President Theodore Roosevelt. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed him chief justice of the Supreme Court, an honor Taft cherished more than the presidency.