Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8th 1889 - July 31st 1953) was a American Politician , member of the Republican party, senator of the Ohio to the Sénat of the United States of 1939 with 1953 and candidate with the presidential primary educations of the Republican party in 1940, 1948 and 1952.

A famous Family

Robert Taft is the grandson of the Attorney General and secretary to the war, Alphonso Taft, and the son of the president William H. Taft.

He spent 4 years to the Filipino during his childhood whereas his/her father was governor there.

Graduate in right of Yale and Harvard, it begins a lawyer career with Cincinnati in Ohio.

The October 17th 1914, Robert Taft marries Martha Wheaton Bowers avecd which it will have 4 children of which Robert Taft Jr (1917 - 1993), future senator, Horace Dwight Taft, future professor in physics with Yale and William Howard Taft III (1915-1991), future American ambassador. One of its small sons, Bob Taft, will be governor of Ohio of 1999 with 2007.

Public career

Reformed army because of its bad sight, Robert Taft joined in 1917 the legal team of Food and Drug Administration where it becomes acquainted with Herbert Hoover.

In 1918 - 1919, Robert Taft is with Paris as legal adviser of the administration in load of the distribution of food in Europe according to war. It is at that time that he becomes an tireless detractor of the bureaucracy of which he denounces slownesses and the deficiencies with the detriment of the individual rights of the citizens. He is opposed thus to SDN and to the European politicians in whom he does not have any confidence. He on the other hand supports the idea of an international court of justice.

In 1919, of return in Ohio, Robert Taft opens a law firm with his/her brother, Charles Phelps Taft II.

In 1920, Robert Taft is elected with the room of the representatives of Ohio from which he becomes the Announcer in 1926.

In 1930, it is elected with the Senate of the state of Ohio then is beaten in 1932. He at the time is regarded as a progressite which reformed the tax laws of the state, was opposed to the Ku Klux Klan and the Prohibition.

In 1938, Taft is elected with the Sénat of the United States. It weaves alliances with the Démocrates South to build an opposite preserving coalition with the New Deal of the president Franklin D. Roosevelt. It perceives New Deal like an ideology Socialiste, supporting the Bureaucratie and the deficits and undertakes to try to again reduce the intervention of the state in the economy. Its preserving program is also caught some with the Social security, recommends a strong national defense but is opposed to the conscription while recommending non-intervention in the European conflicts, in particular during the years 1939-1941. After Pearl Harbor, it gives an opinion in favor of the declaration of war to the Japan. Taft is re-elected in 1944 and 1950 while having become the symbol of the paléoconservateurs of the Republican party.

In 1940, it is presented to the republican primary educations for the presidential election but is beaten by the charismatic one and is moderated Wendell Willkie.

In 1946, the Congress rocks on the republican side and Taft assumes the chairmanship of the senatorial commission on work. He is the joint author of a law, last in addition to a presidential veto, which remains in 2006 the base of the social relations between employers and paid, in particular with respect to the Right to strike and of Blocus.

In foreign politics, taken again Taft its positions Isolationist S, including vis-a-vis the Communist danger represented by the the USSR of Joseph Stalin of which he states to be unaware of the threat. For him, the real danger remains the state omnipotent, bureaucrat, extravagant and interventionist. It supported however the Truman doctrine, approving with reserve the Marshall plan. He is opposed to the formation NATO which he regards as unnecessarily provocative and condemns the engagement of the the United States in the Guerre of Korea.

In 1948, Taft still tries to obtain the nomination of the republicans to the presidential election but the governor Thomas Dewey is preferred to him. He is again candidate in 1952 but must be erased in front of by Dwight Eisenhower.

In 1953, Taft becomes the leader of the Republican majority to the Senate but in April, he is diagnosed of a Cancer and dies the July 31st 1953.

He is buried with the episcopal cemetery of the hill of the Indians in Cincinnati.

In 1957, a senatorial commission directed by John F. Kennedy selected it like one of the five senators having the honor to have their portrait hung in the presidential room of the Senate.

Memorial

A memorial dedicated to Robert A. Taft is located close to the building of the Capitol at Washington DC. In 1959, the Senate distinguished it like one from the five larger senators from the American history.

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