Robert A. Taft
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| Senate Majority Leader | |
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In office January 3, 1953 – July 31, 1953 |
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| Whip | Leverett Saltonstall |
| Preceded by | Ernest McFarland |
| Succeeded by | William F. Knowland |
| Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman | |
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In office January 3, 1947 – January 3, 1953 |
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| Preceded by | New Position |
| Succeeded by | William F. Knowland |
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United States Senator from Ohio |
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In office January 3, 1939 – July 31, 1953 |
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| Preceded by | Robert J. Bulkley |
| Succeeded by | Thomas A. Burke |
| Member of the Ohio Senate | |
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In office 1931–1933 |
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| Member of the Ohio House of Representatives | |
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In office 1921–1931 |
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| Personal details | |
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Robert Alphonso Taft September 8, 1889 Cincinnati, Ohio |
| Died | July 31, 1953 (aged 63) New York City, New York |
| Nationality | American |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Martha Wheaton Bowers (m. 1914) |
| Children |
Robert William Lloyd Horace |
| Alma mater |
Yale College Harvard Law School |
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Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953) was a conservative American politician, statesman, and presidential hopeful who served as a United States Senator from Ohio from 1939 until his death in 1953. A member of the Republican Taft political family, he was the elder son of William Howard Taft (the 27th President of the United States and 10th Chief Justice of the United States).
Taft was the Senate's main opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal domestic policies.
After the president's death, Taft successfully led the conservative coalition's efforts to curb the power of labor unions. Taft was a leading advocate of non-interventionism in foreign policy. He failed in his quests to win the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1940, 1948, and 1952. Throughout that period he battled New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey (leader of the moderate "Eastern Establishment") for control of the party. Taft's biographer, James T. Patterson, portrayed Taft as honest, conscientious, courageous, dignified, and highly intelligent but also faulted Taft's competitiveness, lack of public-relations skills, and extreme partisanship. A 1957 Senate committee named Taft as one of America's five greatest senators, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, and Robert M. La Follette, Sr.
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