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William Howard Taft (July 4, 1901 to December 23, 1903) William H. Taft served as the first civil governor of the Philippines. He first headed the Philippine Commission or the Taft Commission in 1900, from which evolved the civil government of the Philippines.
On July 1, 1901, civil government was inaugurated with William H. Taft as the civil governor. Later, on February 3, 1903, the U.S. Congress would change the title of Civil Governor to Governor-General.
On July 4, 1901, executive authority over the islands was transferred to the president of the Second Philippine Commission who had the title of Civil Governor, a position appointed by the President of the United States and approved by the United States Senate.
On July 1, 1901, civil government was inaugurated, with Taft as the Civil Governor. On February 3, 1903, the US Congress changed the title of Civil Governor to Governor-General.
May 12, 2014 · On July 4, 1901, Taft was inaugurated as the first civilian governor general of the Philippines. He would oversee US rule in the Philippines for 13 years, four as governor general and nine as secretary of war and, later, as the 27th president of the United States.
MLA citation style: Roosevelt, Theodore, and William H Taft. The Philippines: The first civil governor. New York, The Outlook Co, 1902. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/02020491/>. Also available in digital form.
Oct 1, 2011 · William H. Taft was appointed the first US Civil Governor of the Philippines in 1901. Instead of independence, Taft envisaged a long-term imperial relationship between the United States and the Philippines.
Shows how the Taft Commission, born of the McKinley Benevolent Assimilation theory that there was no real fundamental opposition to American rule, lived up to that theory, in their telegrams sent home during the presidential campaign of 1900, and in 1901 set up a civil government predicated upon their obstinate but opportune delusions of the ...
L. S. Rowe, The Establishment of Civil Government in the Philippines, The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Vol. 20 (Sep., 1902), pp. 9-23.
Page 11 - A year ago a man of wide acquaintance both with American public life and American public men remarked that the first Governor of the Philippines ought to combine the qualities...
