Cabinet taffeta
William Howard Taft succeeded his fellow Republican party friend Theodore Roosevelt as President of the United States in March 1909 . After only one term in office, however, he had to leave the White House again, because in addition to the Democrat Woodrow Wilson , his predecessor Roosevelt ran in the 1912 presidential election and the Republican electorate was therefore divided. Both received more electors in Electoral College than Taft.
During Taft's four-year presidency there were very few changes in his cabinet ; only Secretary of War Dickinson and Secretary of the Interior Ballinger left office prematurely. However, Taft lost his Vice President James S. Sherman , who died in October 1912, a week before the presidential election. The constitution did not allow the appointment of a successor at this point in time.
Taft, who himself had served as Secretary of War in Roosevelt's cabinet , appointed three ministers who had also served under his predecessor to his cabinet. James Wilson remained Minister of Agriculture for another four years, George von Lengerke Meyer moved from the Post Office to the Navy Department and former Attorney General Philander C. Knox took over the management of the State Department .
The Cabinet
Department / Office | Official | Period | image |
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President of the United States | William Howard Taft | 1909-1913 | |
Vice President of the United States | James Schoolcraft Sherman | 1909-1912 | |
vacant | 1912-1913 | ||
United States Secretary of State | Philander Chase Knox | 1909-1913 | |
United States Secretary of the Treasury | Franklin MacVeagh | 1909-1913 | |
United States Secretary of War | Jacob McGavock Dickinson | 1909-1911 | |
Henry Lewis Stimson | 1911-1913 | ||
United States Secretary of the Navy | George von Lengerke Meyer | 1909-1913 | |
United States Attorney General | George Woodward Wickersham | 1909-1913 | |
United States Postal Secretary | Frank Harris Hitchcock | 1909-1913 | |
United States Secretary of the Interior | Richard Achilles Ballinger | 1909-1911 | |
Walter Lowrie Fisher | 1911-1913 | ||
United States Secretary of Agriculture | James Wilson | 1909-1913 | |
United States Secretary of Commerce and Labor | Charles Nagel | 1909-1913 |