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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—OhioRobert Alphonso TAFT
(1889-1953)
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; born in
Cincinnati, Ohio, September 8, 1889; attended the public schools of
Cincinnati, Ohio, and of Manila, Philippine Islands, and Taft
School, Watertown, Conn.; graduated from Yale University in 1910
and from Harvard University Law School in 1913; admitted to the
Ohio bar in 1913 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio;
director in a number of business enterprises in Cincinnati;
assistant counsel, United States Food Administration 1917-1918;
counsel, American Relief Administration 1919; member, Ohio house of
representatives 1921-1926, serving as speaker and majority leader
1926; member, Ohio Senate 1931-1932; elected as a Republican to the
United States Senate in 1938; reelected in 1944 and again in 1950
and served from January 3, 1939, until his death; majority leader
1953; co-chairman, Joint Committee on the Economic Report
(Eightieth Congress), chairman, Committee on Labor and Public
Welfare (Eightieth Congress), Republican Policy Committee
(Eightieth through Eighty-second Congresses); sponsored the
Taft-Hartley Act, designed to create equity in collective
bargaining between labor and management; unsuccessful candidate in
1940, 1948, and 1952 for the Republican presidential nomination;
died in New York City, July 31, 1953; lay in state in the Rotunda
of the U.S. Capitol, August 2-3, 1953; interment in Indian Hill
Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography
of Robert A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; Wunderlin,
Clarence E. Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in U.S.
Foreign Policy. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2005.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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