Robert A. Taft

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Republican Party politician United States senator conservative politician human lawyer

Robert A. Taft was a prominent mid-20th-century U.S. senator from Ohio, known as “Mr. Republican” for his influential conservative leadership and opposition to many New Deal and postwar internationalist policies.

Aliases (1)

Lloyd Bowers Taft ×1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Republican Party politician → United States senator → conservative politician → human → lawyer →
birthDate	1889-09-08 →
birthPlace	Cincinnati, Ohio, United States →
burialPlace	Indian Hill Episcopal Church Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States →
candidateIn	1940 Republican Party presidential primaries → 1948 Republican Party presidential primaries → 1952 Republican Party presidential primaries →
child	Horace Dwight Taft → Lloyd Bowers Taft → Robert Taft Jr. → William Howard Taft III →
coAuthorOf	Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
deathDate	1953-07-31 →
deathPlace	New York City, New York, United States →
educatedAt	Harvard Law School → Yale University →
endTime	1953-07-31 →
familyName	Taft →
father	William Howard Taft →
givenName	Robert →
honoredIn	Robert A. Taft Memorial and Carillon →
ideology	American conservatism →
memberOf	United States Senate Committee on Labor and Public Welfare →
memberOfPoliticalParty	Republican Party (United States) →
middleName	Alphonso →
mother	Helen Herron Taft →
nickname	Mr. Republican →
notableFor	influential conservative leadership in the U.S. Senate → leadership of the conservative wing of the Republican Party →
notableWork	Taft–Hartley Act →
occupation	lawyer → politician →
opposed	New Deal → United States entry into NATO → postwar internationalism →
positionHeld	United States senator → United States senator from Ohio →
religion	Presbyterianism →
representedDistrict	Ohio →
sexOrGender	male →
sibling	Charles Phelps Taft II →
spouse	Martha Wheaton Bowers →
startTime	1939-01-03 →
workLocation	Washington, D.C., United States →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Robert A. Taft ("Lloyd Bowers Taft") → William Howard Taft →	child
Profiles in Courage →	describes
Taft–Hartley Act →	introducedBy
Taft–Hartley Act →	namedAfter