Bob Taft

Robert Alphonso Taft III (born in 1942) is the republican governor of the state of the Ohio of 1999 with 2007.

Bob Taft was born the January 8th 1942 with Boston in the Massachusetts.

His/her back-back-large-father Alphonso Taft was secretary with the War, Attorney General and ambassador. Its great-grandfather William Howard Taft was President of the United States of America. His/her grandfather Robert Alphonso Taft and his father Robert Taft Jr. were Republican senators with the Congrès of the United States.

Other members of its family, cousins or uncles, were members of the government, ambassadors or members of Parliament.

Bob Taft is a cousin distant from George W. Bush and the vice-president Dick Cheney.

Bob Taft is graduate universities of Yale in 1963, of Princeton in 1967 and right of the university of Cincinnati in 1976.

Republican deputy with the Room of the representatives of Ohio of 1976 with 1981, police chief of the county of Hamilton of 1981 with 1990, Taft is elected Secretary of State of Ohio in 1991, is re-elected in 1994 and exerts this function until in 1998.

Bob Taft was elected in 1998 governor of Ohio by 50% of the voices compared with 45% with its democratic opponent Lee Fisher.

In 2002, Taft is re-elected with 58% of the votes compared with 38% with the democrat Tim Hagan.

The August 17th 2005, Taft is accused of four charges equivalents to a failure deontologic having led to a fraudulent enrichment of an amount of 5.800 US$. Condemned to refund and with a fine of $4 000, the judge ordered in Taft to excuse himself near the citizens of Ohio and the civils servant of the state. Taft also was the subject of a request of impeachment but without success.

Its approval rating fell to 15% from favorable opinions in September 2005.

The November 13rd 2005, Time Magazine distinguished Bob Taft like one from the three worse governors of the United States (or one of three the least powerful).

In December 2005, with a rate of approval of 17% (against 80% of negative opinions), he is the least popular governor of the country (bearing SurveyUSA Survey on 600 residents of each state carried out from December 9th to 11th 2005. Margin of error of 4%).

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