Robert A. Taft
Former member of the United States Senate
Robert Alphonso Taft Sr. was an American conservative politician, lawyer, and scion of the Taft family. A member of the Republican Party, he represented Ohio in the United States Senate and briefly served as Senate Majority Leader. Wikipedia
Born: September 8, 1889, Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
Died: July 31, 1953, New York City, New York, United States
Spouse: Martha Wheaton Bowers (m. 1914)
Education: Taft School, Harvard University, Yale University, Harvard Law School
Children: Robert Taft Jr., William Howard Taft III
Quotes
“Lending war equipment is a good deal like lending chewing gum. You don’t want it back.”
“For no one makes aggresive war unless he excepts to win”
“An unwise and overambitious foreign policy, and particularly the effort to do more than we are able to do, is the one thing which might in the end destroy our armies and prove a real threat to the liberty of the people of the United States.”
― Robert A. Taft, A Foreign Policy for Americans
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