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.

The battle between William Howard Taft | Taft and Roosevelt bitterly split the Republican Party ; Taft's people dominated the party until 1936.

Taft refused to intervene until the resulting discord in the cabinet forced him to act.

In spite of his failure to be re-elected, Taft achieved what he felt were his main goals as President: keeping permanent control of the party and keeping the courts sacrosanct until they were next threatened.

Before Abraham Lincoln, no President had a beard ; after Lincoln until William Howard Taft, every President except Andrew Johnson and William McKinley had either a beard or a moustache.

Screen Gems would distribute until 1967, when Hanna-Barbera was sold to Taft Broadcasting.

Taft was the original owner of WKRC-TV, until 1996.

In 1924, he and his brother Charles helped form the law partnership Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, with whom he continued to be associated until his death and which continues to carry his name today.

( Democrats joked that " Taft has the best mind in Washington, until he makes it up.

Ezra Taft Benson ( August 4, 1899 – May 30, 1994 ) was the thirteenth president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ) from 1985 until his death and was United States Secretary of Agriculture for both terms of the presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Judge Perry retired from the firm during the second year of the partnership, but the connection between Judge Taft and Mr. Smith continued until the death of the former in 1897.

New Hampshire has held a presidential primary since 1916, but it did not begin to assume its current importance until 1952 after the state simplified its ballot access laws in 1949 seeking to boost voter turnout, when Dwight Eisenhower demonstrated his broad voter appeal by defeating Robert A. Taft, " Mr. Republican ," who had been favored for the nomination, and Estes Kefauver defeated incumbent President Harry S. Truman, leading Truman to abandon his campaign for a second term of his own.

Former President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at Yale Law School from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921.

" Despite her interest in music, Carpenter never considered performing publicly until, shortly after graduating from Taft, her father suggested that she perform at a local open-mike bar, a stressful experience for the shy Carpenter, who recalled, " I thought I was going to barf.

Taft served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1955-1962 until winning election to the United States House of Representatives.

His son, William Howard Taft, was the 27th President of the United States and was a member of Yale's Skull and Bones like his founder father ; another son, Charles Phelps Taft, supported the founding of Wolf's Head Society at Yale ; both his grandson and great-grandson, Robert A. Taft I ( also Skull and Bones ) and Robert Taft Jr., were U. S. Senators ; his great-great-grandson, Robert A. Taft II, was the Governor of Ohio from 1999 until 2007.

He performed this service for about $ 2, 000 per year from early 1908 until 1912 when President William Howard Taft removed Masterson from the position during Taft's purge of Roosevelt supporters from government positions.

Metzenbaum eventually won Young's Senate seat back from Taft and held it for the Democratic Party until his retirement.

Straus left the Commerce Department in 1909 when William Howard Taft became president and became U. S. Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire until 1910.

Nagel was a corporate attorney for Adolphus Busch when President William Howard Taft chose him, in 1909, as Secretary of Commerce and Labor, a position he held until the end of the Taft administration in 1913.

President William Howard Taft called Congress into a special session in 1909 shortly after his inauguration to discuss the issue.

( Butt died at sea shortly before opening game in 1912 and Taft, according to the Washington Post, was overcome and " could not be present for obvious reasons.