If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain. - William Howard Taft

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If humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

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About William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (15 September 1857 – 8 March 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909–1913) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–1930). He also served as an associate judge on the Sixth Circuit, Governor-General of the Philippines, Secretary of War to Theodore Roosevelt and Solicitor General. Between 1914 and 1920 he was the Kent Professor of Law at Yale University.

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Alternative Names: William Taft William H. Taft President Taft W. H. Taft W. Taft
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