The day began at seven. Senator Robert Alphonso Taft got up and faced the day. At breakfast he ate one egg, as usual. Then he picked up his large briefcase, climbed into his car and drove through ...

Under cover of darkness, the Administration’s elite forces last week launched their offensive against the outnumbered but well-entrenched army of Robert Alphonso Taft, top general in that doughty old ...

Before the rise of the Bush family, the Tafts of Ohio were the most successful political dynasty in the Republican Party. Along with the Democratic Kennedys and flexible Rockefellers, Roosevelts and ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Alphonso Taft was born in Townshend, Vermont, in 1810. He graduated from Yale and began a successful law career in ...

Save Outdoor Sculpture, Ohio, Cincinnati survey, 1994. Image on file. Cincinnati (Sept. 1978), pg. 132. (Bottom rear proper right: artist's signature) (Front of pedestal, incised lettering:) ...

Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was an American politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party's Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, ...