Robert Taft Jr.

This article is about the 1960s U.S. representative and 1970s U.S. Senator for Ohio. For his father, also a U.S. Senator for Ohio, see Robert A. Taft. For Robert Taft III, his son, the 2000s Ohio governor, see Bob Taft.

Robert Taft Jr.


United States Senator from Ohio
In office January 3, 1971 – December 28, 1976
Preceded by	Stephen M. Young
Succeeded by	Howard Metzenbaum
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st district
In office January 3, 1967 – January 3, 1971
Preceded by	John J. Gilligan
Succeeded by	William J. Keating
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's at-large district
In office January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965
Preceded by	seat established
Succeeded by	Robert E. Sweeney
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
In office 1955–1962
Personal details
Born	Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (1917-02-26)February 26, 1917 Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	December 7, 1993(1993-12-07) (aged 76) Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality	American
Spouse(s)	Blanca Duncan Noel Katherine Longworth Whittaker, Joan McKelvy
Children	Bob

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Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (February 26, 1917 – December 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. He also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976.

Early life

Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. was born on February 26, 1917, the second of four sons born to Robert Alphonso Taft (1889-1953) and Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889–1958),^[1] daughter of Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859-1910), the former solicitor general of the United States from 1909–1910.^[2]^:127 Robert Jr. was a great-grandson of Secretary of War Alphonso Taft, grandson of President William Howard Taft and First Lady Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron as well as Lloyd Wheaton Bowers and Louisa Bennett Wilson. His three brothers were:

William H. Taft III (1915-1991), who served as U.S. ambassador to Ireland from 1953 to 1957^[3]
Lloyd Bowers Taft (1923–1985),^[4] who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati,^[5]
Horace Dwight Taft (1925–1983), who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale.^[6]

Taft attended Yale University and Harvard Law School. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Career

During World War II, Taft served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946. After law school, Taft joined the Cincinnati law firm, Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by his father. Taft served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1955 to 1962 until winning election to the United States House of Representatives. Taft won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1962 as an at-large representative from Ohio (at-large seats were barred by the Voting Rights Act).^[7]

In 1955 he became a compatriot of the Sons of the American Revolution.

In 1964, rather than running for re-election to the House, he ran for the U.S. Senate, but he lost to Stephen M. Young. In 1966, Taft returned to the House of Representatives, unseating Democratic incumbent (and future Governor of Ohio) John J. Gilligan. In 1968, Taft won re-election, defeating Democrat Carl F. Heiser. Taft then won Young's U.S. Senate seat six years after losing to him when Young did not run for re-election, running against Howard Metzenbaum. Taft, however, lost six years later in a rematch against Metzenbaum. He resigned six days before the end of his term to resume the practice of law.^[7]

Personal life

In 1939, Robert Jr. married Blanca Duncan Noel (1917-1968), daughter of Lewis W. Noel and Natalie Duncan. They were the parents of:^[7]

Robert Alphonso "Bob" Taft III (born 1942), the former Ohio Governor from 1999 to 2007^[8]
Sarah Butler Taft
Deborah Taft
Jonathan Duncan Taft.

After Blanca's death, Robert Jr. remarried to Katherine Longworth Whittaker, widow of his distant cousin David Gibson Taft. They divorced in 1977 and in October 1978, he married the former Joan McKelvy, also of Cincinnati.^[9]

On November 29, 1993, Taft suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. He never woke from the coma and died on December 7, 1993.^[7] Joan died on January 16, 2015.^[9]

References

↑ "Myrootsplace". myrootsplace.com.
↑ The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. 1917. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
↑ "W. H. Taft 3d, 75, Ex-Envoy to Ireland And Son of Senator". The New York Times. 26 February 1991. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
↑ "Myrootsplace". myrootsplace.com.
↑ "Lloyd B. Taft Obituary". The New York Times. October 23, 1985. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
↑ Adair, Robert K.; Sandweiss, Jack; Pless, Irwin A. (August 1983). "Obituary: Horace Dwight Taft". Physics Today. 36 (8): 77. doi:10.1063/1.2915814.
1 2 3 4 Lyons, Richard D. (8 December 1993). "Robert Taft Jr., 76, an Ex-Senator And Heir to Ohio G.O.P. Dynasty". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
↑ "Ohio Third Frontier creates $6.6 billion in economic impact, 41,300 jobs", Med City News, Retrieved September 21, 2009.
1 2 "Joan Taft". Chicago Tribune. January 18, 2015. Retrieved August 18, 2015.

Offices and distinctions

United States House of Representatives
New seat	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's at-large congressional district 1963–1965	Succeeded by Robert E. Sweeney
Preceded by John J. Gilligan	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st congressional district 1967–1971	Succeeded by William J. Keating
United States Senate
Preceded by Stephen M. Young	U.S. Senator (Class 1) from Ohio 1971–1976 Served alongside: William B. Saxbe, Howard Metzenbaum, John H. Glenn Jr.	Succeeded by Howard M. Metzenbaum

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United States Senators from Ohio

Class 1	Smith Meigs Worthington Kerr Ruggles Morris Tappan Corwin Ewing Wade Thurman Sherman Hanna Dick Pomerene Fess Donahey H. Burton Huffman K. Taft Bricker Young R. Taft, Jr. Metzenbaum DeWine S. Brown

Class 3	Worthington Tiffin Griswold Campbell Morrow Trimble E. Brown Harrison Burnet Ewing Allen Chase Pugh Chase Sherman Matthews Pendleton Payne Brice Foraker T. Burton Harding Willis Locher T. Burton McCulloch Bulkley R. Taft, Sr. Burke Bender Lausche Saxbe Metzenbaum Glenn Voinovich Portman

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st congressional district

McLean Harrison Ross Gazlay Findlay Lytle Storer (father) Duncan N. Pendleton Duncan Faran Disney Day G. Pendleton Eggleston Strader Perry Dodds Sayler Butterworth Follett Butterworth Storer (son) C. Taft Shattuc Longworth Bowdle Longworth Hollister Dixon Elston Scherer Rich Gilligan R. Taft Jr. Keating T. Luken Gradison T. Luken C. Luken Mann Chabot Driehaus Chabot

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 23rd, 24th, at-large, and the Northwest Territory's congressional districts

Ohio 23	George H. Bender (1953–1954) William Edwin Minshall Jr. (1955–1974) Ronald M. Mottl (1975–1983)

Ohio 24	Buz Lukens (1967–1971) Walter E. Powell (1971–1973)

Ohio At-large	Jeremiah Morrow (1803–1813) Robert Crosser (1913–1915) Charles V. Truax (1933–1935) Stephen M. Young (1933–1937) Daniel S. Earhart (1936–1937) John McSweeney (1937–1939) Harold G. Mosier (1937–1939) George H. Bender (1939–1949) L. L. Marshall (1939–1941) Stephen M. Young (1941–1943) Stephen M. Young (1949–1951) George H. Bender (1951–1953) Robert Taft Jr. (1963–1965) Robert E. Sweeney (1965–1967)

Northwest Territory At-large	William Henry Harrison (1799–1800) William McMillan (1800–1801) Paul Fearing (1801–1803)

William Howard Taft

10th Chief Justice of the United States (1921–1930) 27th President of the United States (1909–1913) 42nd United States Secretary of War (1904–1908) 6th Solicitor General of the United States (1890–1892)

Presidency	1909 inauguration Dollar diplomacy Income Tax amendment Payne–Aldrich Tariff Act Mann–Elkins Act Defense Secrets Act of 1911 Commission on Economy and Efficiency U.S. occupation of Nicaragua United States Chamber of Commerce Ceremonial first pitch State of the Union Address 1912 Cabinet Judicial appointments Supreme Court First Oval Office

Chief Justice, Supreme Court	Supreme Court career Judiciary Act of 1925 Creation of the Supreme Court Building Taft Court cases

Other actions	Taft Commission Insular Government of the Philippine Islands Philippines Civil Governor, 1901–1904 Taft–Katsura agreement 1906–1909 Occupation of Cuba League to Enforce Peace National War Labor Board

Life and legacy	Early life Birthplace, home, and historic site Woodbury Point Taft Bridge Bibliography U.S. Postage stamps

Elections	1908 Republican National Convention 1908 U.S. presidential election 1912 Republican National Convention 1912 U.S. presidential election

Family	Helen Herron Taft (wife) Robert Taft (son) Helen Taft Manning (daughter) Charles Phelps Taft II (son) Robert Taft Jr. (grandson) William Howard Taft III (grandson) Seth Taft (grandson) Alphonso Taft (father) Louise Taft (mother) Charles Phelps Taft (brother) Henry Waters Taft (brother) Horace Dutton Taft (brother) Peter Rawson Taft (paternal grandfather)

Related	Progressive Era

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