WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (1857-1930)


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U.S. President 1909-1913
 Selections from the Archives of American Art


Among the sketches collected by James David Preston during his thirty-five years as Superintendent of the United States Senate Press Gallery in Washington, D.C. are two relating to William Howard Taft. 1 volume, 18.5 x 12 cm. James D. Preston illustrated autograph book, 1904-1924.

Sketches relating to William Howard Taft collected by James David Preston during his thirty-five years as Superintendent of the United States Senate Press Gallery in Washington, D.C. (30738 bytes)
Sketches relating to William Howard Taft collected by James David Preston during his thirty-five years as Superintendent of the United States Senate Press Gallery in Washington, D.C. (31837 bytes)

Sketch by McKee Barclay of the Baltimore Sun. From left to right: Joseph "Joe" Cannon (1836-1926), Speaker of the House of Representatives; William Howard Taft; Theodore Roosevelt; and possibly Robert LaFollete, Senator from Washington, who was one of Cannon's opponents.

Nelson Harding (1876-1944), on the staff of the Brooklyn Eagle captured the mood of the Republican Convention of 1912 in Chicago, when a power struggled between former president Theodore Roosevelt and the incumbent, William Howard Taft, divided the party.


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