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Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) was born to a wealthy Cincinnati family. Music was her life-long passion. Privately educated, Helen taught school until her 1886 marriage to attorney William H. Taft. She tended to their three children, Robert, Helen, and Charles, while longing for challenges outside the home. When Taft was appointed U.S. Solicitor General in 1890, the Tafts relocated to ...
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 ...
Helen Louise Herron "Nellie" Taft, född som Helen Herron 2 juni 1861 i Cincinnati, Ohio, död 22 maj 1943 i Washington, D.C., var en amerikansk presidentfru 1909-1913, gift med USA :s 27:e president, William Howard Taft.
Helen Louise Taft , known as Nellie, was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished to become first lady. Herron married Taft in 1886, and she guided him throughout his political career, encouraging ...
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 ...
The year after this notable visit she met "that adorable Will Taft," a tall young lawyer, at a sledding party. They found intellectual interests in common; friendship matured into love; Helen Herron and William Howard Taft were married in 1886. A "treasure," he called her, "self-contained, independent, and of unusual application." He wondered if they would ever reach Washington "in any ...
29 de may. de 2024 · Helen Taft (born June 2, 1861, Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.—died May 22, 1943, Washington, D.C.) was an American first lady (1909–13), the wife of William Howard Taft, 27th U.S. president and 10th chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. The fourth of 11 children, Helen Taft came by her interest in politics through her parents, John Herron, a ...
