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Robert Taft, Jr.


United States Senator from Ohio
In office January 3, 1971 – December 28, 1976
Preceded by	Stephen M. Young
Succeeded by	Howard Metzenbaum

Personal details
Born	(1917-02-26)February 26, 1917 Cincinnati, Ohio
Died	December 7, 1993(1993-12-07) (aged 76) Cincinnati, Ohio
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Blanca Duncan Noel Katherine Longworth Whittaker, Joan McKelvy

Robert Alphonso Taft, Jr. (February 26, 1917 — December 7, 1993) was a member of the Taft political family who served as a Republican Congressman from Ohio between 1963 and 1965, as well as between 1967 and 1971. He also served as a U.S. Senator between 1971 and 1976.

Taft attended Yale University and Harvard Law School. At Yale he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity. During World War II, Taft served as an officer in the United States Navy from 1942 to 1946. After law school, Taft joined the Cincinnati law firm, Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by his father. Taft served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1955-1962 until winning election to the United States House of Representatives. Taft won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1962 as an at-large representative from Ohio (at-large seats were barred by the Voting Rights Act).

In 1964, rather than running for re-election to the House, he ran for the U.S. Senate, but he lost to Stephen M. Young. In 1966, Taft returned to the House of Representatives, unseating Democratic incumbent (and future Governor of Ohio) John J. Gilligan. In 1968, Taft won re-election, defeating Democrat Carl F. Heiser. Taft then won Young's U.S. Senate seat six years after losing to him when Young did not run for re-election, running against Howard Metzenbaum. Taft, however, lost six years later in a rematch against Metzenbaum. He resigned six days before the end of his term to resume the practice of law.

On November 29, 1993, Taft suffered a stroke and fell into a coma. He never woke from the coma and died on December 7, 1993.

Family

Robert, Jr. was a great-grandson of Secretary of War Alphonso Taft, grandson of President William Howard Taft and First Lady Helen Louise "Nellie" Herron as well as Lloyd Wheaton Bowers and Louisa Bennett Wilson. He was the second son of Senator Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr. (1889-1953) and Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889-1958). In 1939 Robert, Jr. married Blanca Duncan Noel (1917-1968), daughter of Lewis W. Noel and Natalie Duncan. They were the parents of Ohio Governor Robert Alphonso "Bob" Taft III, Sarah Butler Taft, Deborah Taft, and Jonathan Duncan Taft. After Blanca's death, Robert, Jr. remarried to Katherine Longworth Whittaker, widow of his distant cousin David Gibson Taft. They divorced in 1977. In October, 1978, he married the former Joan McKelvy, also of Cincinnati.

U.S. House of Representatives
New seat	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's at-large congressional district 1963–1965	Succeeded byRobert E. Sweeney
Preceded byJohn J. Gilligan	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st congressional district 1967–1971	Succeeded byWilliam J. Keating
U.S. Senate
Preceded byStephen M. Young	U.S. senator (Class 1) from Ohio 1971–1976 Served alongside: William B. Saxbe, Howard M. Metzenbaum, John H. Glenn, Jr.	Succeeded byHoward M. Metzenbaum

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v t e United States senators from Ohio
Class 1	Smith Meigs Worthington Kerr Ruggles Morris Tappan Corwin Ewing Wade Thurman Sherman Hanna Dick Pomerene Fess Donahey H. Burton Huffman K. Taft Bricker Young R. Taft Jr. Metzenbaum DeWine S. Brown Moreno
Class 3	Worthington Tiffin Griswold Campbell Morrow Trimble E. Brown Harrison Burnet Ewing Allen Chase Pugh Chase Sherman Matthews Pendleton Payne Brice Foraker T. Burton Harding Willis Locher T. Burton McCulloch Bulkley R. Taft Sr. Burke Bender Lausche Saxbe Metzenbaum Glenn Voinovich Portman Vance

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st congressional district
McLean Harrison Ross Gazlay Findlay Lytle Storer (father) Duncan N. Pendleton Duncan Faran Disney Day G. Pendleton Eggleston Strader Perry Dodds Sayler Butterworth Follett Butterworth Storer (son) C. Taft Shattuc Longworth Bowdle Longworth Hollister Dixon Elston Scherer Rich Gilligan R. Taft Jr. Keating T. Luken Gradison T. Luken C. Luken Mann Chabot Driehaus Chabot Landsman

v t e Members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 23rd, 24th, at-large, and the Northwest Territory's congressional districts
Ohio 23	George H. Bender (1953–1954) William Edwin Minshall Jr. (1955–1974) Ronald M. Mottl (1975–1983)
Ohio 24	Buz Lukens (1967–1971) Walter E. Powell (1971–1973)
Ohio at-large	Jeremiah Morrow (1803–1813) Robert Crosser (1913–1915) Charles V. Truax (1933–1935) Stephen M. Young (1933–1937) Daniel S. Earhart (1936–1937) John McSweeney (1937–1939) Harold G. Mosier (1937–1939) George H. Bender (1939–1949) L. L. Marshall (1939–1941) Stephen M. Young (1941–1943) Stephen M. Young (1949–1951) George H. Bender (1951–1953) Robert Taft Jr. (1963–1965) Robert E. Sweeney (1965–1967)
Northwest Territory at-large	William Henry Harrison (1799–1800) William McMillan (1800–1801) Paul Fearing (1801–1803)

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