American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Republican Party’s Taft family. Taft represented Ohio in the United States Senate, briefly served as Senate Majority Leader, and was a leader of the conservative coalition of Republicans and conservative Democrats who prevented expansion of the New Deal. Often referred to as “Mr. Republican”, he cosponsored the Taft–Hartley Act of 1947, which banned closed shops and other labor practices. He opposed the creation of NATO and criticized President Harry Truman’s handling of the Korean War.
He was the elder son of William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States. Graduating from Harvard Law School and starting to work in 1913 at a law firm, his first public office was held from 1917 to 1919 as an assistant Councilman. He served as a Member of the House of Representatives (1921-1926) and the Ohio State Senate (1931-1932).
On 17 October 1914, he married Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889–1958). They had four sons: William Howard Taft III (1915–1991), who became ambassador to Ireland; Robert Alphonso Taft Jr. (1917–1993), who was also elected to the U.S. Senate; Lloyd Bowers Taft (1923–1985), who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati, and Horace Dwight Taft (1925–1983), who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale.
Suffering from cancer Robert A. Taft died at New York Hospital on 31 July 1953 at age 63 following a brain hemorrhage.
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