1930 4c Taft, brown, coil

U.S. #687
1930 4¢ Taft Coil

Issue Date: September 18, 1930
First City: Washington, DC
Quantity Issued: 5,659,023
Printed by: Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Printing Method: Rotary press
Perforation: 10 vertically
Color: Brown

U.S. # 687 pictures U.S. President William Howard Taft. Before being elected as our twenty-seventh President, William Howard Taft also served as Secretary of War under Theodore Roosevelt. Although Roosevelt had chosen Taft as his successor, he later disapproved of Tafts policies and ran against him on the Bull Moose ticket in the 1912 election. The Republican vote was split, and Wilson was elected our twenty-eighth President. After leaving the White House, Taft went on to become a professor of law at Yale University and a U.S. Supreme Court Justice  the only U.S. President to do so.