Family
He was the great-grandson of Secretary of War Alphonso Taft, grandson of President William Howard Taft, the son of Senator Robert Taft and Martha Wheaton Bowers. He married Blanca Duncan Noel. They were the parents of Ohio Governor Bob Taft and three other children.
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