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    Robert Alphonso Taft Biography

    Robert Alphonso Taft I (September 8, 1889 - July 31, 1953), of the Taft family political dynasty of Ohio, was a United States Senator and Presidential candidate in the United States Republican Party.

    Robert Taft was educated at Yale University, got his law degree from Harvard University in 1913, and practiced law briefly in Cincinnati, Ohio, his family's ancestral city.

    During World War I he served on the legal staff of the Food and Drug Administration.

    He began his elected political career in the Ohio house of representatives, where he first won a seat in 1921, and served as speaker of the house in 1926.

    In 1931 he moved to the state senate. He was elected to the first of his three terms as U.S. senator in 1938; he was re-elected again in 1944 and 1950. He became chairman of the Senate Republican Conference in 1944.

    As a U.S.

    senator, he was given the nickname "Mr. Republican"; he was the chief ideologue and spokesperson fo