1912 State of the Union Address
Address by US president William Howard Taft
The 1912 State of the Union Address was given on Tuesday, December 3, 1912. It was written by William H. Taft, the 27th president of the United States. He stated, "The position of the United States in the moral, intellectual, and material relations of the family of nations should be a matter of vital interest to every patriotic citizen." He said, "Our small Army now consists of 83,809 men, excluding the 5,000 Philippine scouts. Leaving out of consideration the Coast Artillery force, whose position is fixed in our various seacoast defenses, and the present garrisons of our various insular possessions, we have to-day within the continental United States a mobile Army of only about 35,000 men. This little force must be still further drawn upon to supply the new garrisons for the great naval base which is being established at Pearl Harbor, in the Hawaiian Islands, and to protect the locks now rapidly approaching completion at Panama." [1]
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William Howard Taft
- 10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930)
- 27th President of the United States (1909–1913)
- 3rd Provisional Governor of Cuba (1904)
- 42nd United States Secretary of War (1904–1908)
- Governor-General of the Philippines (1901–1904)
- 6th Solicitor General of the United States (1890–1892)
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- 1909 inauguration
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- Wireless Ship Act of 1910
- Apportionment Act of 1911
- North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911
- Mann–Elkins Act
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