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She suffered a stroke two months after President Taft’s inauguration that impaired her speech to the point of having to relearn how to form sounds. During this time, she relied on her sisters and college-aged daughter to substitute for her during social functions. Helen Taft employed African American men as ushers for the first time in the ...
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.
Helen “Nellie” was the fourth child (of 11 children) born to John Williamson Herron and Harriet Collins Herron. John was a lawyer and, at one time, was a law partner of Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1877, the Herrons were invited for a two-week visit to the Hayes at the White House, where Lucy Hayes Herron (named for First Lady Lucy Hayes) would ...
Fourth child of Harriet Collins and John W. Herron, born in 1861, she had grown up in Cincinnati, Ohio, attending a private school in the city and studying music with enthusiasm. 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 ...
Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 – February 21, 1987) was an American professor of history and college dean. She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron .
Taft, Helen Herron (1861–1943)American first lady (1909–13), the primary force behind her husband's political career, whose influence in the White House was cut short by a debilitating stroke from which she never fully recovered.
American First Lady Helen Herron Taft (1861-1943) supported her sometimes reluctant husband, William Howard Taft, from his early judicial posts in Ohio through his presidency and final years as a Supreme Court justice. Ambitious and energetic, Taft had a lifelong interest in politics and was the first presidential spouse to publish her memoirs.
