Taft family

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The Taft family hails from Cincinnati, Ohio; its members have served Ohio and the United States in various positions, such as Governor of Ohio, U.S. Senator (two), Attorney General, Secretary of War (two), President, and Chief Justice.

After the Lytle family and the Longworth family, the Taft family became and remains Cincinnati's leading family. They have built an Ohio dynasty, which nominally is comparable to the Adams, Bush, and Kennedy political families.

The Taft family has historical ties to Yale University, where many of its family members have been educated.

The first known ancestor of the Taft family is Robert Taft, who was born about 1640 in England and died in 1724 in Massachusetts. His wife Sarah was born in England, too; they married in 1668 in Braintree, Ma.

Prominent members of the Taft family include: Nicholas Taft (b. ABT 1580) Richard Robert Taft (b. ABT 1610) Robert Taft (b. ABT 1640 - 8 Feb 1725)

Robert Taft (1640-1724)
- Joseph Taft (1680-1747) , son of Robert Taft
  - Peter Taft (1715-1783), son of Joseph Taft
    - Aaron Taft (1743-1808), son of Peter Taft
      - Peter Rawson Taft I (1785-1867), son of Aaron Taft: member of the Vermont legislature
        Alphonso Taft (1810-1891), son of Peter Rawson Taft I: U.S. secretary of war (1876), U.S. attorney general (1876-1877)
        Charles Phelps Taft I (1843-1923), son of Alphonso Taft: U.S. representative (1895-1897), publisher (Cincinnati Times-Star), U.S. representative, owner of the Chicago Cubs until 1916
        William Howard Taft I (1857-1930), son of Alphonso Taft: U.S. president (1909-1913), U.S. chief justice (1921-1930), U.S. secretary of war (1904-1908)
        Robert Alphonso Taft I (1889-1953), son of William Howard Taft I: U.S. senator from Ohio (1939-1953)
        William Howard Taft III (1915-1991), son of Robert Alphonso Taft I: ambassador to Ireland
        William Howard Taft IV, son of William Howard Taft III: chief legal adviser to the U.S. Department of State
        William Howard Taft V, son of William Howard Taft IV
        
        John Thomas Taft, son of William Howard Taft III
        Stephen Alexander Rinehart Taft, son of John Thomas Taft
        
        Robert Taft (Jr.) (1917-1993), son of Robert Alphonso Taft I: U.S. senator from Ohio (1971-1977)
        Robert Alphonso Taft II (1942-), son of Robert Taft (Jr.): governor of Ohio (1999-present)
        Jonathan Duncan Taft, son of Robert Taft (Jr.)
        
        Lloyd Bowers Taft I, son of Robert Alphonso Taft I
        Lloyd Bowers Taft II, son of Lloyd Bowers Taft I
        Daniel Culley Taft, son of Lloyd Bowers Taft II
        Virginia Taft, daughter of Lloyd Bowers Taft II
        Bennett Stone Taft, son of Lloyd Bowers Taft II
        
        Horace Dwight Taft (1925-1997), son of Robert Alphonso Taft I: physics professor at Yale University
        John Godfrey Taft, son of Horace Dwight Taft
        Hugh Bancroft Taft, son of Horace Dwight Taft
        Horace Dutton Taft II, son of Horace Dwight Taft
        
        Charles Phelps Taft II (1897-1983), son of William Howard Taft I: Charterite Cincinnati mayor (1955-1957), Cincinnati city council member (1938-1942), Hamilton County, Ohio, prosecutor (1927-1928), candidate for governor of Ohio (1952), candidate for Republican nomination for Ohio governor (1958)
        Seth Chase Taft, son of Charles Phelps Taft II: Candidate for Ohio Senate (1962); candidate for mayor of Cleveland, Ohio (1967); candidate for Republican nomination for governor of Ohio (1982)
        Frederick Irving Taft, son of Seth Chase Taft
        Thomas Prindle Taft, son of Seth Chase Taft
        Seth Tucker Taft, son of Seth Chase Taft
        
        Peter Rawson Taft III, son of Charles Phelps Taft II
        
        Henry Waters Taft (1859-1945), son of Alphonso Taft: candidate for justice of New York Court of Appeals (1898); New York delegate to Republican National Convention (1920, 1924)
        Walbridge Smith Taft (1885-1951), son of Henry Waters Taft: Candidate for U.S. representative from New York
        
        Horace Dutton Taft I (1861-1943), son of Alphonso Taft: author, founder of the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut
        Peter Rawson Taft II (1845-1889), son of Alphonso Taft
        Samuel Davenport Taft (1855-1855), son of Alphonso Taft
- Robert Taft II (1674-1748), son of Robert Taft
  - Robert Taft III (1697-1777), son of Robert Taft II
    - Robert Taft IV (1724-1787), son of Robert Taft III
      - Lovett Taft (1756-1837), son of Robert Taft IV
        Aurin Post Taft (1788-1861), son of Lovett Taft
        Frederick Lovett Taft I (1811-1869), son of Lovett Taft
        Newton Archibald Taft (1843-1890), son of Frederick Lovett Taft I
        Frederick Lovett Taft II (1870-1913), son of Newton Archibald Taft
        Kingsley Arter Taft (1903-1970), son of Frederick Lovett Taft II: U.S. senator, chief justice of the Ohio Supreme Court
        David Taft, son of Kingsley Arter Taft: COO of Landec Corp., trustee of Kenyon College
        Sheldon A. Taft, son of Kingsley Arter Taft: candidate for Ohio Supreme Court judgeship
  - Israel Taft, son of Robert Taft II
    - Jacob Taft, son of Israel Taft
      - Eastman Taft, son of Jacob Taft
        Chloe Taft, daughter of Eastman Taft and his 2nd cousin Hannah Taft
        Ezra Taft Benson, son of Chloe Taft; Mormon apostle and Representative to the Utah Territorial Legislature
        George Taft Benson, son of Ezra Taft Benson
        George Taft Benson II, son of George Taft Benson
        Ezra Taft Benson, son of George Taft Benson II; U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Leader of the Mormon Church 1985-94
        Bonnie Amussen Benson, daughter of Ezra Taft Benson
        Mark Benson Madsen, son of Bonnie Amussen Benson, Utah State Senate 2002-current
  - John Taft, son of Robert Taft II
    - Jesse Taft, son of John Taft
      - Hannah Taft, daughter of Jesse Taft, married to her 2nd cousin Eastman Taft (see above)

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More distant relations

Hulbert Taft Sr.: Publisher (Cincinnati Times-Star) - nephew of President Taft and Charles Phelps Taft I
- Hulbert Taft Jr., son of Hulbert Taft Sr.: Broadcaster (Taft Broadcasting)
Dudley S. Taft : businessman, member of the boards of Taft Broadcasting, Cinergy, Tribune Co.

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