THE PRESIDENTS

							THE PRESIDENTS

    William Taft
  Teddie Roosevelt
  Woodrow Wilson
     William Taft/Early life
Born September 15, 1859
At age of eighteen, met future wife
Taft attended Yale college
Married Helen Herron in 1886
Met Roosevelt in 1898
Was overweight all his life
    William Taft/political life
He was a chosen successor of Theodore
Roosevelt
He was to carry out Roosevelt’s policies
and enforce them to the same extent that
Roosevelt did.
Although he resented to be the president,
his anger towards Roosevelt caused him
to run for the 1912 election
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He once got stuck in
the bathtub during
presidency.
Theodore Roosevelt/Political life
 Assistant secretary of the navy
 Vice President for McKinley
 Presidency from 1901 through to 1909
 Regulation of industry
 The square deal
 The square deal was his terms for the
 regulation of industry
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He was the youngest president to take
office in the nations history in 1901 at the
age of 43
Theodore Roosevelt/private life
At age 22, Roosev elt married his first
wife, Alice Hathaway Lee on October 27,
1880- She died exactly 4 years later
In 1886, Roosevelt remarried to his
childhood sweetheart, Edith Kermit Carow
He was also part of the freemason society
He was an extremely work orientated man,
and he sought what he called “The
strenuous life”
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He took up boxing, running, tennis, hiking,
polo, horseback riding, jujutsu and skinny
dipping in the Potomac river during the
winter
Roosevelt was slightly blind in one eye,
because of a boxing match that detached
his left retina
He read on average, several books a day
Theodore Roosevelt/prepresidency
 Born New York City, October 27, 1858
 Home schooled by Parents and Paid
 teachers alll his life
 Was deficient in math, Greek, and Latin.
 Matriculated at Harvard College in 1876
 He graduated Magna Cum Laude.
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His father’s death in 1878 was a major
blow to him and he revamped his
educational efforts and did well in, Biology,
and was already an accomplished
naturalist and published ornithologist
An ornithologist does research on birds
Woodrow Wilson/political life
Was the 28th president of the united states
Democratic
Designed the Federal Reserve Program
Reelected in 1916
Second election focused on World War 1
  Woodrow Wilson/political life
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Created the Espionage Act of 1917
Created Federal Farm act 1916 which
allowed farmers to borrow 50% of land
value and 20% of improvements
Woodrow Wilson/ Private life
He stood 5’11
Was 175-185 pounds
Had blue eyes and brown hair
Had bad teeth
Born in Staunton Virginia, in 1856
He was thought to have a slight touch of
dyslexia
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Married twice to Ellen Axson Wilson and
then to Edith Galt Wilson
He was the chosen president for the
100000 dollar bill. The bill never went into
circulation.
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He was born on December 28, 1856
Died February 3, 1924
Woodrow Wilson/Prepresidency
Spent the majority of his childhood up to
age 14 in Augusta, Georgia
Graduated Princeton College in 1879
Later that year he began attending
university of Virginia for law school (1879)
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