Will Taft was a money collector too!

Continuing our presidential series of former collectors, it seems that William Howard Taft was a collector too. 

During 1881 and 1882, Taft served as assistant prosecuting attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio. In March 1882, President Chester A. Arthur appointed him collector of internal revenue for the first district, with headquarters at Cincinnati. Taft resigned a year later because he did not want to discharge good workers just to make jobs for deserving Republicans. He then formed a successful law partnership.

This information was from the website of the World Book, however the impetus to search for this information was from the current reading of Doris Kearns Goodwin's new book, The Bully Pulpit (Pg. 55).

Picture above is from a letterhead in our archives.