U. S. Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Jr.

1917 - 1993  (76 years)

• Name	Robert Alphonso Taft
  Prefix	U. S. Senator
  Suffix	Jr.
  Born	26 Feb 1917	Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
  Gender	Male
  Group	Descendant of Revolutionary War Veteran
  	DAR or SAR Eligible Descendant of a Revolutionary War Veteran
  Group	Famous Historical Figure
  	Famous People
  Group	Head of Line - Nicholas Taft
  	Descendants of Nicholas Taft of Stepney, several of whose children were early immigrants to Massachusetts.
  Died	7 Dec 1993	Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
  Person ID	I5092	New England Hall Families Master Tree
  Last Modified	18 May 2019

  
  

  Father	U. S. Senator Robert Alphonso Taft,   b. 8 Sep 1889, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio ,   d. 31 Jul 1953, New York, New York County, New York  (Age 63 years)
  Mother	Martha Wheaton Bowers,   b. 17 Dec 1889, Winona, Winona County, Minnesota ,   d. 2 Oct 1958, Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio  (Age 68 years)
  Married	17 Oct 1914	Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio
  Family ID	F3397	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Blanca Noel,   b. 2 Jan 1917, New York, New York County, New York ,   d. 28 Jun 1968, Indian Hill, Hamilton County, Ohio  (Age 51 years)
  Married	27 Jun 1939	New York, New York County, New York
  Children	1. R.A. Taft, II   2. S. Taft   3. D. Taft   4. J.D. Taft
  Last Modified	17 Oct 2017
  Family ID	F3514	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 26 Feb 1917 - Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio Married - 27 Jun 1939 - New York, New York County, New York Died - 7 Dec 1993 - Cincinnati, Hamilton County, Ohio  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Badges

  Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier Descendant

  
  

• Notes

  US Congressman, US Senator. A member of the Republican Party, he represented the state of Ohio in US Congress from 1963 until 1965 and again from 1967 until 1971, and in the US Senate from 1971 until 1976. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio he was the second son of US Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr. He received his formal education at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut and Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During World War II he served as an officer in the US Navy from 1942 until 1946. After his discharge from the US Navy, he joined the Cincinnati law firm of Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by his father. In 1955 he entered politics and was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives until 1962, when he ran for a seat in the US Congress and won. In 1964 he ran for the US Senate but lost to Stephen M. Young and in 1966 he was re-elected to the US Congress. In 1970 he ran for the US Senate and defeated his Democratic challenger, Howard Metzenbaum. During his term in the US Senate, he served on the Armed Services, the Labor and Public Welfare, and the Banking, Currency and Housing committees, and helped write legislation to extend the National Labor Relations Act to health care workers. In 1976 he ran for a second term and was defeated by Howard M. Metzenbaum. After leaving the US Senate, he rejoined his father's law firm in Cincinnati, Ohio. In November 1993 he suffered a stroke and fell into a coma, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio about a week later at the age of 76. He was the father of Ohio Governor Robert Alphonso Taft II, the grandson of US President and Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft and great-grandson of US Secretary of War and Attorney General Alphonso Taft. (bio by: William Bjornstad)