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29 de oct. de 2009 · Taft’s Early Life and Career . William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was Alphonso Taft, a prominent Republican attorney who served as secretary of ...
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 ...
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.
Three of them— William Howard Taft, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush —became U.S. presidents. Skull and Bones was formed in 1832 by William Huntington Russell and Alphonso Taft. According to some accounts, the society was formed after a dispute over elections to Phi Beta Kappa. Other sources conjecture that Russell modeled the society ...
William Howard Taft was born into the powerful Taft family September 15, 1857, near Cincinnati, Ohio as[3] the son of Louisa Torrey and Alphonso Taft. His paternal grandfather was Peter Rawson Taft, a descendant of Robert Taft I, the first Taft in America, who settled in Colonial Massachusetts.
The Taft family’s service to the university, city, state and the nation is continuous. William Howard’s son, Robert Alphonso Taft, served in the Ohio legislature for more than 10 years and in the U.S. Congress as a senator, where he was known as “Mr. Republican” from 1939 until his death in 1953.
Around the World with Alphonso Taft. Follow the journey of Alphonso Taft as he takes on his last public service.
