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Robert Taft was de kleinzoon van voormalig minister van Defensie Alphonso Taft en de zoon van de Amerikaanse president William Howard Taft. Hij werd geboren in Cincinnati en studeerde rechten aan Yale en Harvard. In 1914 trouwde hij met Martha Wheaton Bowers, met wie hij vier kinderen kreeg. Zijn zoon Robert Taft, Jr. had ook zitting in de Senaat.
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 ...
Senator Robert Alphonso Taft got up and faced the day. At breakfast he ate one egg, as usual. Then he picked up his large briefcase, climbed into his car and drove through Georgetown, ...
Alphonso Taft, né le 5 novembre 1810 à Townshend (Vermont) et mort le 21 mai 1891 à San Diego , est un juriste, homme politique et diplomate américain. Membre du Parti républicain , il est secrétaire à la Guerre des États-Unis en 1876 puis procureur général des États-Unis entre 1876 et 1877 dans l' administration du président Ulysses S. Grant .
This fourth and final volume of a selected edition of the papers of Robert A. Taft documents Taft's post-World War II and congressional experiences until his death in 1953. Regardless of his conservative commitments, Taft saw the need for responsible reform. In the immediate postwar years, he recognized the need for federal aid to education ...
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal.
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 ...
