Robert Alphonso Taft 1889–1953 – Whos Your Daddy? Wikigenealogy

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Robert Alphonso Taft, 1889–1953 (aged 63 years)

Name

Robert Alphonso Taft

Name: Robert Alphonso /Taft/
Surname: Taft
Given names: Robert Alphonso

Sex Male

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Family with parents
father	Links Birth: 15 September 1857 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Marriage: 1886 Served: 1909 Death: 8 March 1930 Unique identifier: 75E673B1A48DC344A5A40F343D595BB2E63B Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Helen Herron Robert Alphonso Taft Helen Taft Charles Taft Mayor of Cincinnati William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States 1857–1930 Birth: 15 September 1857 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Death: 8 March 1930
mother	Links Birth: 1861 Marriage: 1886 Death: 1943 Unique identifier: 75E673B1A48DC344A5A40F343D595BB2E63B Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States Robert Alphonso Taft Helen Taft Charles Taft Mayor of Cincinnati Helen Herron 1861–1943 Birth: 1861 Death: 1943
Marriage	Marriage — 1886 —
4 years himself	Links Birth: 8 September 1889 31 28 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Death: 31 July 1953 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Robert Alphonso Taft 1889–1953 Birth: 8 September 1889 31 28 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Death: 31 July 1953
2 years younger sister	Links Birth: 1891 33 30 Occupation: Dean — Bryn Mawr, Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA Death: 1987 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Helen Taft 1891–1987 Birth: 1891 33 30 Death: 1987
7 years younger brother	Links Birth: 1897 39 36 Death: 1983 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Charles Taft Mayor of Cincinnati 1897–1983 Birth: 1897 39 36 Death: 1983

Robert Alphonso Taft + … …
himself	Links Birth: 8 September 1889 31 28 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Death: 31 July 1953 Links Ancestors Compact tree Descendants Family book Fan chart Hourglass chart Interactive tree Pedigree Pedigree map Relationships Family with spouse Robert Alphonso Taft 1889–1953 Birth: 8 September 1889 31 28 — Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA Death: 31 July 1953
son	Robert Taft Jr. …–

Events of close relatives
Birth	8 September 1889 31 28 Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio, USA
Birth of a sister	Helen Taft 1891
Birth of a brother	Charles Taft Mayor of Cincinnati 1897
Death of a father	William Howard Taft 27th President of the United States 8 March 1930
Death of a mother	Helen Herron 1943
Death	31 July 1953 (aged 63 years)
Unique identifier	9A9F22A80A6FCE469AA2F435864F8CF24822
Last change	4 March 2023 – 10:49:38 Author of last change: Danny

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Note	He was a United States senator, who led conservative Republican opposition to the Democratic administrations of presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry Truman. He was educated at Yale and Harvard universities. He began practicing law in Cincinnati in 1913. In 1917-18 Taft was an assistant counsel of the U.S. Food Administration and in 1919 was a member of the American Relief Administration, which organized relief for stricken survivors of World War I in a number of European countries. He was a Republican member of the Ohio, USA House of Representatives from 1921 to 1926, serving as Speaker of the House in 1926. In 1931-32 he was a member of the Ohio, USA Senate, and from 1939 until his Death he served in the U.S. Senate. In the Senate Taft exercised considerable influence in the shaping of Republican party policy on domestic issues. In 1947 he was the coauthor with New Jersey, USA Representative Fred Allan Hartley, Jr. (1902-69), of the Labor-Management Relations Act, popularly known as the Taft-Hartley Law. The act amended the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and imposed certain restrictions on the power of labor unions. Among other provisions, it prohibited the use of the closed-shop agreement. As a conservative Republican leader, he unsuccessfully campaigned for the presidential nomination of his party in 1940, 1948, and 1952. He was the author of A Foreign Policy for Americans (1951).

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He was a United States senator, who led conservative Republican opposition
to the Democratic administrations of presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt
and Harry Truman.

He was educated at Yale and Harvard universities. He began practicing law
in Cincinnati in 1913. In 1917-18 Taft was an assistant counsel of the
U.S. Food Administration and in 1919 was a member of the American Relief
Administration, which organized relief for stricken survivors of World War
I in a number of European countries. He was a Republican member of the
Ohio, USA House of Representatives from 1921 to 1926, serving as Speaker of the
House in 1926. In 1931-32 he was a member of the Ohio, USA Senate, and from
1939 until his Death he served in the U.S. Senate. In the Senate Taft
exercised considerable influence in the shaping of Republican party policy
on domestic issues. In 1947 he was the coauthor with New Jersey, USA
Representative Fred Allan Hartley, Jr. (1902-69), of the Labor-Management
Relations Act, popularly known as the Taft-Hartley Law. The act amended
the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 and imposed certain restrictions
on the power of labor unions. Among other provisions, it prohibited the
use of the closed-shop agreement. As a conservative Republican leader, he
unsuccessfully campaigned for the presidential nomination of his party in
1940, 1948, and 1952. He was the author of A Foreign Policy for Americans
(1951).