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The Taft family house was built in two phases. The original section of the house was the front portion of the house, constructed in essentially a two-story, squared shape, facing Auburn Avenue. It was completed in 1840. Eleven years later, Alphonso Taft, William Howard's father, purchased the house for he and his expanding family.
Alphonso Taft asistió a la Academia Amherst y finalmente se inscribió en Yale College. Al graduarse, Taft enseñó en esta institución. Al mismo tiempo, Taft obtuvo un título en derecho de la Facultad de Derecho de Yale. Recibió su título de abogado en 1838 . Después de graduarse, Taft se mudó a Cincinnati, Ohio, donde estableció una ...
The collection also contains substantial material on the Taft family and includes the papers of Taft’s father Alphonso Taft (1810-1891), who was a prominent lawyer, jurist, cabinet secretary, and diplomat. The Index to the William Howard Taft Papers was created by the Manuscript Division in 1972 after the bulk of the collection was microfilmed.
The Taft Family Historic House. The Taft family house was primarily built in two phases. The original front section of the house, facing Auburn Avenue, was built in Greek Revival style and completed in 1840 by a family named Bowen. It was approximately half the size it is today. Alphonso Taft, William Howard’s father, purchased the house with ...
Taft served in that post until the end of the Grant administration in 1877, returning home to his Cincinnati law practice. Taft went on to serve as U.S. minister to Austria-Hungary (1882), and in 1884, became U.S. minister to Russia. Alphonso Taft died in 1891.
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Alphonso Taft was an American jurist, diplomat, politician, Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant.
