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Early life and education. Yale College photograph of Taft, c. 1878. William Howard Taft was born September 15, 1857, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Alphonso Taft and Louise Torrey. [2] The Taft family was not wealthy, living in a modest home in the suburb of Mount Auburn.
Early political career. William Howard Taft. The son of Alphonso Taft, secretary of war and attorney general (1876–77) under Pres. Ulysses S. Grant, and Louisa Maria Torrey, Taft graduated second in his Yale class of 1878, studied law, and was admitted to the Ohio bar in 1880.
Republican William Howard Taft (1857-1930) served as the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913, and later became a Supreme Court Justice. He was the only person to hold both...
Taft went to private school and, like his father, attended Yale College. There, he joined the now-notorious secret society Skull and Bones, which his father co-founded in 1832. Taft graduated...
He attended the University of Cincinnati Law School (1878-80) and was admitted to the bar in 1880. Family Ties. Taft was born to Alphonso Taft and Louisa Maria Torrey. His father was a lawyer and public official who had served as President Ulysses S. Grant's Secretary of War. Taft had two half-brothers, two brothers, and one sister.
Taft studied at Woodward High School, a well-regarded private school in Cincinnati, graduating in 1874 second in the class with a four-year grade point average of 91.5 out of 100. At Yale University, Taft followed his father's advice to refrain from athletics lest his participation impede his academic progress.
He graduated from Yale, and then returned to Ohio, studied at the Cincinnati Law School, and began his law practice. He made a swift climb in politics through Republican judiciary appointments, while a seat on the Supreme Court was his ultimate ambition.
