Philippines Commission in 1900 and was the first civil governor of the Philippines.
Republican Taft was groomed for President by Roosevelt himself and elected America's 27th President over William Jennings Bryan in 1908.
His administration dissolved tobacco trusts and his tariff and conservation policies angered progressives.
Though he was renominated in 1912, he was strongly opposed by Roosevelt, who felt that Taft had abandoned Roosevelt's policies.
The Republican party split between the two and Democrat Woodrow Wilson was subsequently elected instead.

WOODROW WILSON
Woodrow Wilson, Democrat and 28th President, won the 1912 election because the Republican party vote was split between Taft and Roosevelt.
Wilson, a professor of law and political economy, fought for American rights on the high seas, and he protected American interests in revolutionary Mexico.
Though he was reelected in 1916 on the slogan "He kept us out of the war", Wilson's attempts to mediate in World War I failed.
On April 6, 1917, after 4 American ships were sunk, he declared war on Germany.
Wilson proposed a peace plan on January 1918, which was not accepted by the Germans until November 1918.
He traveled to Paris to negotiate the peace treaty, to encompassed the idea of a League of Nations.
Though the treaty was rejected by the Senate, Woodrow Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Price.
That same year, Wilson suffered a stroke and became an invalid.
He managed to cling to power until the end of his term in 1920.

CALVIN COOLIDGE
Calvin Coolidge was the 30th President of the United States.
The son of a Vermont storekeeper, he entered Republican state politics by first serving as the mayor of Northampton, Mass.
He quickly moved on to become state senator, lieutenant governor and eventually governor of Massachusetts.
Coolidge attained national acclaim when he called in the state guard during the 1919 Boston police strike.
He ran as Warren Harding's vice president in 1920 and took office upon Harding's death in 1923.
He was reelected by a huge majority in 1924.
He managed to reduce the national debt by 2 billion dollars in 3 years, but when eager Republicans wanted to renominate him in 1928, he chose not to run again.

FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT
Franklin D. Roosevelt, the son of James Roosevelt and Sara Delano joined the N.Y. Senate in 1910 after graduating from Columbia Law School.
A Democrat, he ran for vice president in 1920 with James Cox and when they were defeated, went to work as a lawyer for a financial institution.
In 1921 FDR became paralyzed by polio, and though he learned to walk with leg braces, he was mostly wheelchair-bound.
But he refused to be defeated.
In 1928 he was elected governor of New York and in 1932 was elected 32nd President of the U.S. FDR was the first President to run more than 2 terms and was reelected to a 3rd term (1940) and even a 4th term in 1944 despite poor health.
He was also the first President to use radio and became famous for his "fireside chats".
The U.S. entered World War II under Roosevelt, when Japan attacked Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

HARRY S. TRUMAN
Harry Truman used the middle initial S. as the family could not agree on whether his middle name should be Shippe or Solomon.
After attending public school, working as a railroad timekeeper, a bank clerk and running the family farm, Truman attended law school and was elected Senator in 1934.
With Roosevelt's help Truman was nominated for and elected Democratic vice president in 1944.
He became the 33rd President of the U.S. when Roosevelt died in 1945 and was elected to a full term in 1948.
Truman was responsible for bringing World War II to an end by authorizing the first use of the atomic bomb on Hiroshima (August 6) and Nagasaki (August 8) 1945.
In 1948-49 he crushed the Russian blockade of West Berlin with a giant airlift and send American forces to Korea in 1950 when communist North Korea invaded South Korea.

LYNDON B. JOHNSON
Lyndon Baines Johnson, Democrat and America's 36th President, entered politics when he won a contest to fill the vacancy caused by the death of a Texas state representative.
By 1938, Johnson was elected to the full term, after which he won 4 more terms.
In 1948 he was elected U.S. senator and he became Democratic leader in 1953.
He ran as John F.