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Robert Alphonso Taft was born 8 September 1889 in Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, United States to William Howard Taft (1857-1930) and Helen Louise Herron (1861-1943) and died 31 July 1953 New York Hospital, New York City, Manhattan, New York, United States of brain hemorrhage.
TAFT, ROBERT ALPHONSO, (son of President William H. Taft, nephew of Charles Phelps Taft, father of Robert Taft, Jr.), a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8, 1889; attended the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, and of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Taft School, Watertown, Conn.; graduated from Yale University in 1910 and from Harvard University Law School in 1913 ...
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This is the first volume of a projected four-volume edition of the select correspondence, speeches, and documents of Robert A. Taft(1889-1953), son of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft. The series makes available key documents of Taft's career, Ohio and Midwestern history, U.S. political and diplomatic history, and the study of conservative political theory.
Robert Alphonso Taft —continued Y ale University Art Professor Deane Keller was recom mended by Robert Taft’s brother Charles to paint the senator’s portrait for one of the oval wall panels in the Senate Reception Room of the Capitol. Keller, of Hamden, Connecticut, was considered the “unofficial artist” of Yale, Robert Taft’s ...
Taft was a product of one of America's most prominent political families. He was the grandson of Attorney General and Secretary of War Alphonso Taft, and the son of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft and Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron. His younger brother, Charles Phelps Taft II, served as the Mayor of Cincinnati and was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio in ...
Alphonso Taft served as attorney general of the United States from 1876 to 1877, under President ulysses s. grant. Taft was born November 5, 1810, in Townsend, Vermont, to pioneers Peter Rawson Taft and Sylvia Howard Taft. He was well aware of his family's long history and tradition of public service in the American colonies.
