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Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron Taft, née le 2 juin 1861 et morte le 22 mai 1943, fut, en sa qualité d’épouse du 27 e président des États-Unis William Howard Taft, la « Première dame » des États-Unis du 4 mars 1909 au 4 mars 1913.
Helen Herron Taft. Biography: As "the only unusual incident" of her girlhood, "Nellie" Herron Taft recalled her visit to the White House at 17 as the guest of President and Mrs. Hayes, intimate friends of her parents. Fourth child of Harriet Collins and John W. Herron, born in 1861, she had grown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending a private ...
Nancy Reagan (1981 – 1989) was consequential in fostering Japanese-American relations when the Japanese ambassador presented her with a young sapling cultivated from one of Helen Taft’s trees. Some varieties of the cherry trees that grew on the banks of the Arakawa River in Tokyo and were sent to the U.S. in 1912 ceased flourishing there.
Helen Louise Herron “Nellie” Taft (June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the wife of William Howard Taft and First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the fourth child of Judge John Williamson Herron (1827–1912), a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes, and Harriet Collins-Herron (1833–1901), Nellie ...
Helen Taft was born on 2nd June, 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to John Williamson Herron and Harriet Collins Herron. Her father, a district attorney, judge and Republican Party activist was at good terms with the then President due to a law partnership with him. She was the fifth out of the ten siblings and called ‘Nellie’ during childhood.
Helen Taft was 48 years old when she became first lady and served throughout her husband William Howard Taft’s single term in the years 1909-1913. It was Helen who persuaded her husband to pursue politics, for she had wanted to become first lady since she was 16 years old and had attended a party for President Hayes and his wife at the White House with her parents.
Bibliographic information. Title. Recollections of Full YearsLibrary of American civilizationRecollections of Full Years, Helen (Herron) Taft (Mrs. William Howard Taft) Author. Helen Herron Taft. Publisher. Dodd, Mead, 1914. Original from. the New York Public Library.
