{"id":5707,"date":"2016-07-22T13:41:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-22T13:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archives.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/?p=5707"},"modified":"2023-11-28T19:59:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T19:59:34","slug":"republican-president-comes-to-champaign-urbana-in-1911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/2016\/07\/22\/republican-president-comes-to-champaign-urbana-in-1911\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican President comes to Champaign-Urbana\u2026 in 1911"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Written by Ellen Swain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Republican National Convention has taken center stage in Cleveland this week.<\/p>\n<p>One of Ohio&#8217;s famous Republican politicians has a connection to the University of Illinois!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5708\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5708\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2016\/07\/0002413web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5708 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2016\/07\/0002413web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2016\/07\/0002413web.jpg 600w, https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/73\/2016\/07\/0002413web-300x176.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5708\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Taft reviews the University of Illinois cadet regiment, 1911.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In February 1911, President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) toured Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.\u00a0 Taft is the only U.S. President (1909-1913) who also served as a Supreme Court Chief Justice (1921-1930). His visit included a tour of the University grounds and a review of the cadet regiment. &#8220;To see so many young men and women preparing themselves to meet the problems of life is indeed a rare pleasure,&#8221; Taft told the crowd gathered to hear his remarks. Read more about his celebrated visit and his interesting prediction for the cites of Champaign and Urbana in the <a href=\"http:\/\/idnc.library.illinois.edu\/cgi-bin\/illinois?a=d&amp;d=TUC19110211.2.8&amp;srpos=20&amp;e=01-01-1903-01-01-1921--en-20-TUC-1--txt-txIN-taft+visit+champaign------#\"><em>Urbana Courier-Herald<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Ellen Swain The Republican National Convention has taken center stage in Cleveland this week. One of Ohio&#8217;s famous Republican politicians has a connection to the University of Illinois! &nbsp; In February 1911, President William Howard Taft (1857-1930) toured Champaign-Urbana and the University of Illinois.\u00a0 Taft is the only U.S. President (1909-1913) who also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":626,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,8],"tags":[108,236,292,334],"class_list":["post-5707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-found-in-the-archives","category-research","category-university-trivia","tag-famous-campus-visitors","tag-presidents","tag-taft","tag-william-howard-taft"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11371,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5707\/revisions\/11371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/slc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}