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Taft, Robert A(lphonso)
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| (1889–1953)
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| US senator, born in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, the son of President William Howard Taft. He studied at Yale and Harvard Law School. During World War 1 he worked with Herbert Hoover in the US Food Administration and then for post-war European relief efforts. He entered politics in Ohio, serving in the state legislature, and as a prominent conservative Republican he went on to serve in the US Senate (Ohio, 1938–53). An isolationist in foreign affairs and an opponent of ‘New Deal’ and ‘Fair Deal’ domestic programmes, he was three times a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination (1940, 1948, 1952). Known as Mr Republican, he co-wrote the Taft–Hartley Act, which imposed new restrictions on labour, defended Senator Joseph McCarthy, and continued to oppose the USA's internationalist actions. |
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