| Item Call Number |
FP00368 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
FP00368 |
| Local Free-text Call Number (oclc) |
- Classification number - FP00368
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| Title Statement |
- Title - William Howard Taft
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| General Note |
- General note - The Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, the first civil governor of the Philippines, (1901-1904), and the 27th President of the United States. In his capacity as civil governor, he adopted the policy of "the Philippines for the Filipinos"; worked for the passage of the Philippine Bill of 1902 which contained a Bill of Rights, and led to the establishment of the Philippine Assembly five years later; appointed Filipinos to responsible government positions; imported American teachers and sent them to the rural areas; and helped to improve the judicial system by introducing a new code of civil procedure to ensure speedy trial, a law of evidence, and by making some changes in the law of criminal procedure. He likewise negotiated with Pope Leo XIII in May 1902, for the purchase of 410,000 acres of the friar estates. Paid by the American government in December 1903, for
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| Ownership And Custodial History |
- History - Lopez Memorial Museum
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| Subject Chronological Term |
- Chronological term - Circa 1898
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Americans
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| Subject Faceted Topical Term |
- Focus term - 1898
- Focus term - american civil governors
- Focus term - chief justice of the supreme court
- Focus term - heads of state
- Focus term - lopez
- Focus term - president of second philippine commission
- Focus term - roosevelt
- Focus term - u.s. presidents
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