Taft, Robert
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Taft, Robert (1889–1953), U.S. senator,
Republican party leader, and son of President William Howard
Taft.Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, Taft graduated from Yale University, earned a degree from Harvard Law School in 1913, and married Martha Wheaton Bowers the following year. They had four sons.
Taft got his start in politics by serving in the Ohio House of Representatives (1921–1926) and the Ohio Senate (1931–1932). An arch critic of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt's
New Deal, he won a U.S. Senate seat in 1938 and was reelected in 1944 and 1950. While strongly opposed to FDR's interventionist foreign policy in the later 1930s, Taft supported the war effort after the attack on
Pearl Harbor. Following
World War II, he remained skeptical of the so‐called bipartisanship in foreign affairs—voting for American membership in the
United Nations but opposing the
North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Taft also condemned President Harry S.
Truman's commitment of American troops to Korea in 1950 without a formal declaration of war, calling the action unconstitutional. In domestic affairs, he coauthored the
Taft‐Hartley Act (1947), which limited the activities of labor unions, and he encouraged the early Red‐hunting activities of his junior Republican colleague Senator Joseph
McCarthy of Wisconsin.
Known as “Mr. Republican,” Taft was deeply skeptical of federal power, which grew dramatically in the 1930s and after. Running as a conservative, he unsuccessfully sought the Republican presidential nomination in 1940, 1948, and 1952, failing each time to win the support of the more liberal and internationalist Eastern wing of the party. Following President Dwight D.
Eisenhower's inauguration in 1953, Taft enjoyed his greatest political success as an effective Senate majority leader. In June of that year, however, rapidly progressing cancer forced him to relinquish his leadership role.
See also
Conservatism;
Federal Government, Legislative Branch: Senate;
Isolationism;
Korean War.
Bibliography
James T. Patterson , Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft, 1972.
Robert Merry , Robert A. Taft: A Study in the Accumulation of Legislative Power, in First Among Equals: Outstanding Senate Leaders of the Twentieth Century, ed. Richard A. Baker and Roger H. Davidson, 1991, pp. 163–98.
Gary W. Reichard
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