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Senate Leaders. In 1947, Republican Senator Robert A. Taft was at the peak of his power, commanding a coalition of conservative Republicans and southern Democrats to thwart President Harry S. Truman's domestic agenda. Taft's most impressive achievement came in June. The labor-restricting Taft-Hartley Act survived Truman's veto and won Taft the ...
Alphonso Taft. Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was an American jurist, diplomat, politician, Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant. He was also the founder of the Taft political dynasty, and father of President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft.
The Taft family is an American political family of English and Irish descent, with origins in Massachusetts. Its members have served in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, and the United States federal government, in various positions such as representative (two), governor of Ohio, governor of Rhode Island, senator (three), secretary of agriculture, attorney ...
Title Mrs. Alphonso Taft and her first born, Mr. William H. Taft Summary William Taft as a baby being held by his mother, Louisa Maria Torrey Taft.
The Taft family’s legacy of public service, philanthropy, support of community, education, and humanitarian causes stretches back to the mid-1800s when Alphonso Taft, the patriarch of the Cincinnati branch of the Taft family, moved to Cincinnati to practice law. Alphonso’s roots were in New England, where generations of Tafts had farmed the ...
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (8 de septiembre de 1889 - 31 de julio de 1953) fue un político conservador estadounidense, abogado y miembro del Partido Republicano.Taft representó a Ohio en el Senado de los Estados Unidos, se desempeñó brevemente como Líder de la mayoría del Senado y fue líder de la coalición conservadora de republicanos y demócratas conservadores que impidieron la ...
On behalf of the National Park Service, welcome to the William Howard Taft National Historic Site, the birthplace and boyhood home of the only person to serve as both President (1909-1913) and Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930). Introduction. The Greek-Revival style house was built in the 1840's and purchased by Alphonso Taft in 1851.
