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American First Lady Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) supported her sometimes reluctant husband, William Howard Taft, from his early judicial posts in Ohio through his presidency and final years as a Supreme Court justice. Ambitious and energetic, Taft had a lifelong interest in politics and was the first presidential spouse to publish her memoirs.
Helen Herron Taft was intelligent, politically savvy, and ambitious for her husband. Their marriage was a strong partnership. She died on May 22, 1943, and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery. Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) was born to a wealthy Cincinnati family. Music was her life-long passion.
Helen Herron Taft. Helen "Nellie" Taft was the wife of President William Howard Taft and First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913. During their marriage, she relished travel to Japan, China, and diplomatic missions around the world. As "the only unusual incident" of her girlhood, "Nellie" Herron Taft recalled her visit to the White ...
9 de abr. de 2015 · When Helen Herron Taft became the nation’s first lady in March 1909, Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore had been vainly struggling for almost a quarter-century to interest Superintendents of the U.S. Army’s Office of Public Buildings and Grounds in planting Japanese flowering cherry trees to beautify the driveway of Potomac Park.
Helen “Nellie” was the fourth child (of 11 children) born to John Williamson Herron and Harriet Collins Herron. John was a lawyer and, at one time, was a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1877, the Herrons were invited for a two-week visit to the Hayes at the White House, where Lucy Hayes Herron (named for First Lady Lucy Hayes) would ...
Born - January 2, 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Parents - John Williamson Herron & Harriet Collins Herron. Married - June 19, 1886 to William Howard Taft. Children - Robert Alphonso (1889 – 1953), Helen Herron (1891 – 1987), Charles Phelps (1897 – 1983) Education - Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Firsts - 1st First Lady to ride with the ...
Every spring, hundreds of thousands of visitors descend upon the Tidal Basin in Washington, D.C., during the Cherry Blossom Festival in order to capture images of the monuments framed by delicate blossoms of pink and white. What might now look like a fairy tale setting is the result of the vision First Lady Helen “Nellie” Herron Taft and an ...
