William Howard Taft was the military governor of the Philippines soon after the US occupied them as a result of the Spanish-American war.
William Howard Taft served as a governor of the Philippines when it was under US control and later became US president. Taft Avenue in Metro Manila, Philippines is named after him.
William Howard Taft was the military governor of the Philippines soon after the US occupied them as a result of the Spanish-American war.
Hard to say. William McKinley was President in 1898 when the Phillippines claimed their independence from Spain ( and actually everybody else). William Howard Taftserved as the first US colonial governor. Harry Truman was President in 1946 when the Philippines became independent of the US.
The US has never had a governor general. The first President of the United States was George Washington. The first US Governor-General of the Philippines was William Howard Taft.
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William Howard Taft was an Assistant Prosecuting Attorney in Hamilton County, Ohio; Judge on the Ohio Supreme Court; Federal Circuit Court Judge; Civil Governor of the Philippines and US Secretary of War.
He took office as governor of California in 1967 and became US president in 1981.
Sam Houston was governor of Tennessee and later became President of the Republic of Texas which was briefly an independent country, having declared independence from Mexico and before it joined the US.
In 1910 no one had the title "President of the Philippines." At that time the Philippines was a possession of the USA and was governed by an appointee of the US President. You might stretch a point and say that the President of the US was the President of the Philippines, although no one thought in those terms then. In 1910 the President of the US was William Howard Taft.
FDR was governor of New York before he became US president.
GEN Douglas MacArthur became, in a sense, the appointed (by the president of the US) military governor of Japan.
Hawaii is a US State and has a Governor, not a President.