Senate Years of Service: 1939-1953Party: RepublicanTAFT, Robert Alphonso, (son of President William H. Taft, nephew of Charles Phelps Taft, father of Robert Taft, Jr.), a Senator from Ohio;…
(Encyclopedia) Taft, Robert Alphonso, 1889–1953, American politician, b. Cincinnati, Ohio; son of William Howard Taft. He practiced law in Ohio and served (1921–26, 1931–32) in the state legislature…
Senate Years of Service: 1971-1976Party: RepublicanTAFT, Robert, Jr., (son of Robert Alphonso Taft, grandson of President William Howard Taft, and grandnephew of Charles Phelps Taft), a…
Born: 9/15/1857Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati on Sept. 15, 1857. A Yale graduate, he entered Ohio Republican politics in the 1880s. In 1886 he married Helen…
TAFT, Charles Phelps, (brother of President William Howard Taft, uncle of Robert Alphonso Taft and granduncle of Robert Taft, Jr.), a Representative from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio,…
(Encyclopedia) Taft, William Howard, 1857–1930, 27th President of the United States (1909–13) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30), b. Cincinnati.
Taft retired from public life…
(Encyclopedia) Taft, LoradoTaft, Loradolərāˈdō [key], 1860–1936, American sculptor, lecturer, and writer on art, b. Elmwood, Ill., studied at the École des Beaux-Arts. In 1886 he became instructor at…
(Encyclopedia) Stern, Robert A. M. (Robert Arthur Morton Stern), 1939–, American architect, b. New York City. He studied architecture at Yale Univ., became a practicing architect in the mid-1960s,…
Senate Years of Service: 1953-1954Party: DemocratBURKE, Thomas A., a Senator from Ohio; born in Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, October 30, 1898; attended parochial schools; graduated from…
(Encyclopedia) Mundell, Robert A., 1932–2021, Canadian economist, b. Kingston, Ont., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D. , 1956). He taught at…
