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Alphonso Taft (born November 5, 1810 in Townshend , Windham County , Vermont , † May 21, 1891 in San Diego , California ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) and founder of a political dynasty in the United States. He was a member of President Ulysses S. Grant's cabinet as Justice and War Secretary .

Taft graduated from Yale University , where he was also a tutor, successfully in 1833. In 1832 he and his college friend William Huntington Russell founded the still existing student union Skull & Bones at this university. He then studied law at Yale Law School, was admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1838 and moved to Cincinnati in 1839 , where he was a member of the city council and became one of the most influential citizens of Ohio . He was a member of the trust companies of the University of Cincinnati and Yale College .

In 1856 he made an unsuccessful attempt to be elected to the US House of Representatives . From 1866 to 1872 he was a judge on the Cincinnati Supreme Court. In March 1876 he was appointed Secretary of War in his cabinet by US President Grant , and three months later he became Attorney General of the United States.

After resigning as Minister of Justice in 1877, he returned to practical jurisdiction. His candidacies for governor of Ohio in 1875 and 1879 were unsuccessful. Taft succeeded William Walter Phelps as ambassador to Austria-Hungary in 1882 , and from 1884 to 1885 he carried out this activity in the Russian Empire .

His son William Howard Taft was elected the 27th President of the United States of America in 1908 and was previously also a member of the Skull & Bones Society. His grandson Robert A. Taft I ( Skull & Bones member) and his great-grandson Robert Taft Jr. were both US Senators , and his great-great-grandson Robert A. Taft III was Governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. William Howard Taft III was Ambassador to Ireland and William Howard Taft IV is an advisor to the US State Department.

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SURNAME	Taft, Alphonso
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH	November 5, 1810
PLACE OF BIRTH	Townshend , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH	May 21, 1891
Place of death	San Diego , California