Kingsley A. Taft

Kingsley A. Taft

Kingsley Arter Taft (born July 19, 1903 in Cleveland , Ohio , † March 28, 1970 in Columbus , Ohio) was an American lawyer and politician of the Republican Party . He served in the Senate for Ohio from 1946 to 1947 .

biography

Taft was born into the influential Taft family in Cleveland, the son of Frederick L. Taft . After graduating from high school , he received his bachelor's degree from Amherst College in 1925 . In 1928 he made his law degree from Harvard University . He went back to Ohio and opened a law firm. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1933 to 1934 . In 1940 he was elected to the Shaker Heights school council, to which he was a member until 1942. During the Second World War he served in the US Army , most recently in the rank of major .

From 1946 he sat for the US state Ohio in the Senate. He was chosen in a special election to succeed James W. Huffman . This in turn sat in the Senate from 1945 to 1946. Huffman took the place of a judge of the Supreme Court appointed Harold Hitz Burton one. Taft sat in the Senate until 1947. He thus completes Burton's actual tenure. Taft could not be run for re-election, the Republican candidate John W. Bricker was his successor.

In 1948 he was elected as a judge to the Supreme Court of Ohio , the state's highest court. In 1954 and 1960 he was confirmed in office. He was elected Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1962. He held this office until his death in 1970.

Web links

• Kingsley A. Taft in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Kingsley A. Taft in the database of Find a Grave (English)