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If this humor be the safety of our race, then it is due largely to the infusion into the American people of the Irish brain.

William Howard Taft

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William Howard Taft
Age: 72 †
Born: 1857
Born: September 15
Died: 1930
Died: March 8
27Th U.S. President
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Cincinnati
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