- Born
- Died
- Birth nameRobert Alphonso Taft
- Robert A. Taft is an American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as "Mr. Republican", he cosponsored the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops and other labor practices.
The elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States, Robert Taft was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He pursued a legal career in Cincinnati after graduating from Harvard Law School in 1913.
A 1957 Senate committee named Taft as one of America's five greatest senators.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bazza the Beast
- Children
- Parents
- RelativesWilliam Howard Taft IV(Grandchild)Bob Taft(Grandchild)Helen Taft(Sibling)
- US senator from Ohio, 3 January 1939 - 31 July 1953 (his death).
- Son of US president William Howard Taft.
- Interred in Indian Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
- Pictured on a 4¢ US postage issued in his honor, 10 October 1960.
- Grandfather of Bob Taft.
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