Taft served in this capacity until shortly before his death in 1930.

Alphonso Taft went to Cincinnati in 1839 to open a law practice, and was a prominent Republican who served as Secretary of War and Attorney General under President Ulysses S. Grant.

Along with his judgeship, between 1896 and 1900 Taft also served as the first dean and a professor of constitutional law at the University of Cincinnati.

From 1901 to 1903, Taft served as the first civilian Governor-General of the Philippines, a position in which he was very popular with both Americans and Filipinos.

He retired as secretary of state on Jan. 20, 1953, and served on the Yale Board of Trustees along with Senator Robert A. Taft, one of his sharpest critics.

Five Solicitors General have later served on the Supreme Court: William Howard Taft ( who was Chief Justice of the United States ), Stanley Forman Reed, Robert H. Jackson, Thurgood Marshall, and Elena Kagan.

It was the original site of Our Lady of the Holy Rosary Catholic Church, which served Taft, Killona, and Hahnville.

The city is served by Taft Independent School District.

The City of Taft is served by the Taft Independent School District.

Taft Southwest is served by the Taft Independent School District.

When Eisenhower finally consented, Lodge served as his campaign manager and played a key role in helping Eisenhower to win the nomination over Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, the candidate of the party's conservative faction.

Chong served his sentence at the Taft Correctional Institution from October 8, 2003 to July 7, 2004 and was cellmates with Jordan Belfort.

" He served his sentence in Taft Correctional Institution and was cellmates with Jordan Belfort.

His younger brother, Charles Taft, served as the Mayor of Cincinnati and was the unsuccessful Republican candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1952.

Taft himself appeared taciturn and coldly intellectual, characteristics that were offset by his gregarious wife, who served the same role his mother had for his father, as a confidante and powerful asset to her husband's political career.

Perhaps the most famous Holstein was Pauline Wayne, which served from 1910 to 1913 as the official presidential pet to the 27th President of the United States, President William Howard Taft.

William Howard Taft, the only person ever to serve as both President and Chief Justice of the United States once served on the circuit.

Wilson served in the US diplomat corps during the presidencies of William McKinley ( 1897 – 1901 ), Theodore Roosevelt ( 1901 – 1909 ) and William Howard Taft ( 1909 – 1913 ).

Leahy served as naval aide to President William Howard Taft, at the laying of the keel of, at Mare Island.

Olds was a Republican, and served as a delegate from Michigan's 6th District to the 1908 Republican National Convention, which nominated William Howard Taft for president.

Robert Taft ( commonly known as Robert Taft Jr .) ( February 26, 1917December 7, 1993 ) was a member of the Taft political family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971.

Before becoming President, Taft was selected to serve on the Ohio Superior Court in 1887.

William Howard Taft was born into the powerful Taft family September 15, 1857, near Cincinnati, Ohio as the son of Louisa Torrey and Alphonso Taft.

After admission to the Ohio bar, Taft was appointed Assistant Prosecutor of Hamilton County, Ohio, based in Cincinnati.

Joseph B. Foraker of Ohio, seeking Taft's support in his senatorial re-election, made an appearance with Taft, creating the impression Taft was allied with the big business trusts.

The three leading candidates for the 1940 Republican nomination were all isolationists to varying degrees: Senators Robert Taft of Ohio and Arthur Vandenberg of Michigan, and Thomas E. Dewey, the " gangbusting " District Attorney from New York.

* September 8 – Robert Taft, U. S. Senator from Ohio ( d. 1953 )

* William Howard Taft, Secretary of War from Ohio

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Early in 1908, the only two Republican contenders running nationwide campaigns for the presidential nomination were Secretary of War William Howard Taft and Governor Joseph B. Foraker, both of Ohio.

Taft won a resounding victory in Ohio.

* William Howard Taft, President of the United States from Ohio

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Beginning with his runaway victory in Illinois on April 9, however, Roosevelt won nine of the last ten presidential primaries ( in order, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, Oregon, Maryland, California, Ohio, New Jersey, and South Dakota ), losing only Massachusetts to Taft.

* Senator Robert Taft of Ohio

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The three frontrunners were Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg of Michigan, and District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey of New York.

As 1944 began the frontrunners for the Republican nomination appeared to be Wendell Willkie, the party's 1940 candidate, Senator Robert Taft of Ohio, the leader of the party's conservatives, New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the party's powerful, moderate eastern establishment, General Douglas MacArthur, then serving as an Allied commander in the Pacific theater of the war, and former Minnesota Governor Harold Stassen, then serving as a U. S. naval officer in the Pacific.

However, Taft surprised many by announcing that he was not a candidate ; instead he voiced his support for a fellow conservative, Governor John W. Bricker of Ohio.

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William Howard Taft addressing the audience at the Philippine Assembly in the Manila Grand Opera House.

Official White House portrait of William Howard Taft ( 1911 )

During his House tenure, he also expressed his support for price controls, a higher minimum wage, the Marshall Plan, and aid to Turkey and Greece ; he opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee, the Taft – Hartley Act, and the Twenty-second Amendment.

Cromberg ( formerly, Twenty-Mile House, Taft, and Teft ) is a census-designated place ( CDP ) in Plumas County, California, United States.

President William Howard Taft rented a house for the summer White House from Mrs. Maria Evans in Beverly.

* Moses Taft House ( Burrillville, Rhode Island ) ( 1786 )

Included among De Leon's most distinguished citizens are former Texas Speaker of the House and later Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes, a protégé of John B. Connally and Lyndon B. Johnson, and the 1955 Pulitzer Prize winner William White, whose The Taft Story focuses upon Republican presidential contender Robert A. Taft.

On November 2, 1911, President Taft delivered the address " World Wide Speech ", from the front porch of Purinton House.

In 1909, US President William Howard Taft ordered two Pierce-Arrows ( and two White Model M Tourers ) to be used for state occasions, the first official cars of the White House.

Robert Baden-Powell, William Howard Taft | William Taft and James Bryce at the White House in 1912

Former President of the United States | U. S. President William Howard Taft | William Taft, Plutarco Elías Calles and President of the United States | U. S. President Calvin Coolidge at the White House.

Florence had never been a guest at the White House ; and former President Taft, meeting the President-elect and Mrs. Harding, discussed its social customs with her and stressed the value of ceremony.

Two months after entering the White House, Mrs. Taft suffered a stroke, impairing her speech.

First Lady Helen Taft in her official White House portrait

Mrs. Taft was a Wet, so White House guests were entertained with alcohol during her time as First Lady.

* Helen Herron Taft White House biography

A method of folding the flag of Ohio was created by Alex Weinstock, an Ohio Boy Scout, for his Eagle Scout service project, which was passed by the 125th Ohio General Assembly as House Bill 552, and signed into law by Governor Bob Taft on February 15, 2005.

* " Baum-Taft House ( Taft Museum of Art ), 316 Pike Street, Cincinnati, OH-1820.

Taft won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1962 as an at-large representative from Ohio ( at-large seats were barred by the Voting Rights Act ).