William Howard Taft is the only person to serve as both U.S. president and Supreme Court Chief Justice during his career. The ...

Greatness often comes quietly and obscurely. Abraham Lincoln, America’s 16th president, was born on Sunday morning Feb. 12, ...

It’s always “hearts, Cupid, love” and never “analyzing history and the egregious mistakes upon which this Union was built.” ...

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PhotoQuest//Getty Images On their way to the inauguration, incoming US President William Howard Taft (1857 - 1930) and outgoing US President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919) ride in a carriage ...

Stepping down as agriculture secretary, former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack is stepping up as the first CEO of the World Food Prize Foundation ...

The fact is that Trump is not the first, nor likely last, American political leader to covet Canada. Former U.S. president ...

Taft of Ohio is the biggest political figure in Washington, boss of probably the most efficiently organized G.O.P. Senate the nation has ever seen. It had disposed of Mississippi’s Theodore G.

As President Donald Trump issued a slew of executive orders and directives on his first day of his second administration, he explained his actions by saying, "It's all about common sense." ...