měi guó yī zhàn zhōng jué qǐ  (1857niánjiǔyuè15rì～1930niánsānyuè8rì)

kāiduān zhōngjié zàiwèi 1909nián 1913nián 

　　wēi lián · huò huá dé · tǎ fū tuō（ 1857 nián 9 yuè 15 rì － 1930 nián 3 yuè 8 rì） shì dì 27 rèn měi guó zǒng tǒng (1909 nián 3 yuè 4 rì – 1913 nián 3 yuè 4 rì )。 tā dāng guò lǜ shī、 měi guó shǒu xí dà fǎ guān hé lù jūn bù cháng。 1908 nián zuò wéi gòng hé dǎng rén， zài xī 'ào duō · luó sī fú zhī chí xià dāng xuǎn zǒng tǒng。 rèn nèi dài biǎo lǒng duàn zī běn jiā， chù chù wéi hù tā men de lì yì， duì nèi tí gāo guān shuì， duì wài tuī xíng “ jīn yuán wài jiāo ”， jiā qiáng qīn lüè lā měi guó jiā。 tā de zhèng cè yǐn qǐ guǎng fàn de bù mǎn， lián luó sī fú yě pī píng tā。 zài 1912 nián jìng xuǎn lián rèn zǒng tǒng zāo dào shī bài， shū gěi liǎo xīn zé xī zhōu zhōu cháng wǔ dé luó · wēi 'ěr xùn。
　　
　　 tǎ fū tuō de hěn duō jiā tíng chéng yuán yě cān jiā liǎo zhèng zhì。 tā de 'ér zǐ hé sūn zǐ dū dāng guò cān yì yuán。 tā de chóngsūn zǐ shì xiàn zài de 'é hài 'é zhōu de zhōu cháng。

　　William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States 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.
　　
　　Riding a wave of popular support of President (and fellow Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, Taft won an easy victory in his 1908 bid for the presidency.
　　
　　In his first and only term, President Taft's domestic agenda emphasized trust-busting, civil service reform, strengthening the Interstate Commerce Commission, improving the performance of the postal service, and passage of the Sixteenth Amendment. Abroad, Taft sought to further the economic development of undeveloped nations in Latin America and Asia through the method he termed "Dollar Diplomacy." However, Taft often alienated his own key constituencies, and was overwhelmingly defeated in his bid for a second term in the presidential election of 1912.
　　
　　After leaving office, Taft spent his time in academia, arbitration, and the search for world peace through his self-founded League to Enforce Peace. In 1921, after the First World War, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft Chief Justice of the United States, fulfilling Taft's lifelong dream. Taft served in this capacity until his death in 1930.
　　
　　Weighing over 300 pounds on average, Taft was physically the heaviest American president ever elected. Taft is also, to date, the last U.S. president to have facial hair while in office.