and great-grandson of William Howard Taft, the only person in American history to have been president and chief justice of the United States ... senior status in the Senate.

the eldest son of former President William Howard Taft. Robert Taft represented Ohio in the U.S. Senate, where he’d accumulated a staunchly conservative voting record. He opposed foreign aid, ...

Charles W. Chatfield '48, who will assume chairmanship of the new organization, stated that its purpose "is to present the forthright facts on Senator Taft so that there is a fair basis for judgment." ...