" For 10 points, identify this Republican president, who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 and was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election.
In his inaugural address, this president defended the 15th Amendment as the primary means of enfranchising African Americans. This man was the first of two presidents whom Henry Stimson served as secretary of war, and this man himself had been secretary of war in the cabinet of his predecessor. This president followed up on his inaugural promise to reform the Dingley tariff by backing a bill that allowed duty-free importation of (*) Philippine goods; that bill was the Payne-Aldrich Tariff. This president's Secretary of State, Philander Knox, was responsible for implementing a foreign policy called "dollar diplomacy." For 10 points, identify this Republican president, who succeeded Theodore Roosevelt in 1909 and was defeated by Woodrow Wilson in the 1912 election.
In his inaugural address, this president defended the 15th Amendment as the primary means of enfranchising African Americans.
William Howard Taft