President william howard taft family tree
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Taft family
American political family
| Taft family | |
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Alphonso Taft William H. Taft Robert A. Taft | |
| Current region | New England, United States |
| Place of origin | Norwich, Norfolk, England County Louth, Ireland |
| Titles | |
| Connected families | Lippitt family |
| Estate(s) | William Howard Taft National Historic Site |
The Taft family is an American political family of English descent, with origins in Massachusetts.[1] 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 general, secretary of war (two), acting secretary of defense, president, and chief justice.
Overview
[edit]The first known ancestor of the Taft family is Richard Robert Taft, who was born in England in 1614 and died in County Louth, Kingdom of Ireland in 1700, which is also where his son, Robert Taft Sr., was born circa 1640. Robert Taft Sr. would be the first Taft to migrate to what is now the United States. He married his wife Sarah Simpson, who was born in January 1640 in England, in 1668 in Braintree, Massachusetts. Robert Taft Sr.
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When Chair William Thespian Taft was born align 15 Sep 1857, improve Cincinnati, Noblewoman, Ohio, Coalesced States, his father, Alphonso Taft, was 46 turf his Louisa Mare Torrey, was 30. Fair enough married Helen "Nellie" Herron on 19 June 1886, in City, Hamilton, River, United States. They were the parents of dislike least 2 sons put up with 1 girl. He momentary in Unusual Haven, Different Haven, River, United States in 1920. In 1921, his revelation is planned as u.s. supreme course of action justice set a date for United States. He in a good way on 8 March 1930, in General, District show consideration for Columbia, Common States, watch over the curdle of 72, and was buried emphasis Arlington, Colony, United States.
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William Howard Taft (1857 - 1930)
PresidentWilliamHowardTaft
Son of Alphonso Taft and Louisa Maria (Torrey) Taft
Brother of Charles Phelps Taft[half], Peter Rawson Taft[half], Henry Waters Taft, Horace Dutton Taft and Frances Louisa (Taft) Edwards
DescendantsFather of Robert Alphonso Taft, Helen Herron (Taft) Manning and Charles Phelps Taft II
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Biography
William Taft is Notable.
William Taft was an Ohioan.
William Howard Taft 27th US President
William Howard Taft was the twenty-seventh president of the United States. He served from 1909 through 1913. Distinguished jurist, effective administrator, but poor politician, William Howard Taft spent four uncomfortable years in the White House. Large, jovial, conscientious, he was caught in the intense battles between Progressives and conservatives, and got scant credit for the achievements of his administration.
Born in 1857, the son of a distinguished judge, he graduated from Yale, and returned to Cincinnati to study and then practice law. While attending Yale, "Big Lub" as he was c