Alphonso Taft, patriarch of the dynasty William Howard Taft’s father, Alphonso Taft, also rose from Cincinnati politics to achieve a high national position.

All seemed set for a huge GOP win in the 1948 presidential election. A leading candidate for the nomination that year was Robert Alphonso Taft, the eldest son of former President William Howard Taft.

All seemed set for a huge GOP win in the 1948 presidential election. A leading candidate for the nomination that year was Robert Alphonso Taft, the eldest son of former President William Howard Taft.

He passed the bar after studying law in the offices of Alphonso Taft. The Cincinnati Commercial, the only local paper at that time to occasionally print favorable articles about the local Black ...

According to Glasscock, both former President William Howard Taft and his brother, Taft Museum founder Charles Phelps Taft, two historic names in Cincinnati history, were also high-ranking Freemasons.

Whenever Robert Alphonso Taft, 50, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has run for office, the electorate has done two things: 1) scoff at him, 2) vote for him. Mr. Taft is no charmer, but he gets elected.

His grandfather, Alphonso, the pioneer who had transplanted the Taft family from Vermont, had been Secretary of War under Grant, Attorney General of the U.S., Minister to Austria and to Russia.

It is dedicated by attorney Alphonso Taft, father of future President William Howard Taft, as a home where “children charged with petty offenses could be sent with the idea of reclaiming and ...

The society was co-founded in 1832 by Alphonso Taft—President Taft’s father—and William Russell, a college junior who supposedly learned a lot about secret societies when he was studying ...

One such family is the Tafts, five generations of a staunchly Republican Ohio family most famous for President William Howard Taft and Senate Republican leader Robert Alphonso Taft, who gave their ...