American Quotations by William J. Federer 2024

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857-March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States, 1909-13; Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1921-30; Kent Professor of Constitutional Law at Yale University, 1913-21; Joint Chairman of National War Labor Board, 1918; Secretary of War under President Theodore Roosevelt, 1904-08; appointed by President McKinley as Civil Governor of the Philippines, 1901-04; appointed by President McKinley as Commissioner of the Philippines, 1900-01; Dean of Cincinnati Law School, 1896; U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge for the Sixth Judicial Circuit, 1892-1900; appointed by President Harrison as U.S. Solicitor General, 1890-92; Ohio Superior...

Theodore Roosevelt (October 27, 1858-January 6, 1919) was the 26th President of the United States, 1901-09, the youngest man to hold the office. He had been Vice-President under William McKinley, 1900, assuming the Presidency after McKinley's assassination. He began construction of the Panama Canal, 1906; established the U.S. Forest Service, 1906, and called a national conservation conference, 1908; awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his arbitration in the Russo-Japanese War, 1905; Governor of New York, 1898-1900. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the First U.S. Volunteer Cavalry Regiment, known as the "Rough Riders," becoming the hero of the Battle of...

William McKinley (January 29, 1843-September 14, 1901) was the 25th President of the United States, 1897-1901, being assassinated shortly after re-election. He won the Spanish-American War, 1898; annexed Guam, Puerto Rico, the Hawaiian Islands, the Philippine Islands, under Admiral George Dewey; defeated the Spanish in Cuba under Colonel Theodore Roosevelt and the "Roughriders"; put down the Boxer Rebellion in China, 1900; arranged the permanent lease of Guantanamo Bay in Cuba, 1901; planned the Panama Canal. He was Governor of Ohio, 1892-96; Ohio delegate to the Republican National Convention, 1892, 1888, 1884; U.S. Representative, 1876-83, 1885-91, being Chairman of the House...

Stephen Grover Cleveland (March 18, 1837-June 24, 1908) served as both the 22nd and 24th President of the United States, 1885-89 and 1893-97; trustee of Princeton University, 1901; married Frances Folsom, 1886; the Governor of New York, 1882-85; the Mayor of Buffalo, N.Y., 1881-82; Sheriff of Erie County, 1870-73; Assistant District Attorney of Erie County, 1863-70; Ward Supervisor, 1862; admitted to the bar, 1859; and teacher at the New York Institute for the Blind, 1853. He was a direct descendant of Moses Cleveland, the founder of Cleveland, Ohio, whose ancestors came from England to Massachusetts in 1635; and was the...

Chester Alan Arthur (October 5, 1830-November 18, 1886) was the 21st President of the United States, 1881-85; Vice-President under James A. Garfield, 1881, assuming the Presidency upon Garfield's assassination; Collector of Customs at the Port of New York, 1871-78, appointed by President Grant; Counsel to the New York City Tax Commission, 1869; Quartermaster General of New York State during the Civil War, 1861-62; Inspector General of Union Troops, 1862; married Ellen Lewis Herndon, 1859; participated in first Republican State convention at Saratoga, 1856; abolitionist lawyer, 1853-61, earning publicity for defending the rights of Blacks; admitted to bar, 1853; Principal in...