Taft Administration - Career
Career
Law
After Taft received his law degree and was admitted to the bar, he became assistant prosecutor of Hamilton County, Ohio. He was appointed collector of internal revenue for Ohio's First District in 1882. He practiced law in Cincinnati, Ohio, with Harlan Page Lloyd from 1883 to 1884. He became Hamilton County's assistant solicitor in 1885. In 1887 he was appointed judge of Ohio's Superior Court. Following his term as judge he served as U.S. solicitor general from 1890 to 1892, and then judge of the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court until 1900.
Politics
After the Spanish-American War (1898), the United States acquired the Philippine Islands in the Pacific Ocean as a colony. President William McKinley wanted Taft to become president of the Philippine Commission, so Taft left the...
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