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John G. Taft (born 1954) is an American financier and writer. [1] [2] ... [17] and the following year he was named a “Leading Individual" by the Family Wealth ...
The Taft family is an American political family of English descent, with origins in Massachusetts. [1] Its members have served in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, and the United States federal government, in various positions such as representative (two), governor of Ohio, governor of Rhode Island, senator (three), secretary of agriculture, attorney general ...
John F. Kennedy and Donald J. Trump are the only known presidents who did not have ancestors who arrived during the colonial period. Barack Obama is thus far the only president to have ancestry from outside of Europe; his paternal family is of Kenyan Luo ancestry.
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Alphonso Taft was born in Townshend, Vermont, the only child of Peter Rawson Taft of the powerful Taft family, and Sylvia Howard, on November 5, 1810. [2] He was descended from Robert Taft Sr. who had migrated to America from County Louth, Ireland. [2] His mother Sylvia was either of Scottish or Irish descent. [2]
He was the son of Albert S. Ingalls and Jane (née Taft) Ingalls (1874–1962). His mother was the niece of U.S. President William Howard Taft. David was the grandson of railroad executive Melville E. Ingalls. [3] and the great-grandson of industrialist David Sinton, for whom he was named.
Moses Taft built a woolen mill on the Blackstone River at Uxbridge, c. 1852. [2] The mill ran 24/7 during the American Civil War. [2] Union Blue Uniforms were made at Moses Taft's Mill in historic Uxbridge. Moses Taft was a descendant of the famous Taft family in America which had its roots in Uxbridge. By the mid-1850s the mills of Uxbridge ...
Robert Taft Sr., also Robert Taffe (c. August 1640 – February 8, 1725), was the first Taft in the United States and the founder of the American Taft family. Believed to be of Scottish heritage, [ a ] Taft left the British Isles to settle in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in the 1670s.