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Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft (née Herron; June 2, 1861 – May 22, 1943) was the First Lady of the United States from 1909 to 1913 as the wife of President William Howard Taft. Born to a politically well-connected Ohio family, she took an early interest in political life, deciding at the age of 17 that she wished to become first lady.
Taft with her parents and brothers (1912) Helen Herron Taft Manning (August 1, 1891 – February 21, 1987) was an American historian who was dean and acting president of Bryn Mawr College . She was the middle child and only daughter of U.S. President William Howard Taft and his wife Helen Herron .
Recollections of Full Years is a 1914 memoir by Helen Taft, a First Lady of the United States and wife of William Howard Taft. The memoirs were the first to be published by a first lady. The book serves as "the most important source of information" about Helen Taft. [1] [2]
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 ...
19 Helen Taft. 20 Edith Wilson. 21 Florence Harding. 22 Grace Coolidge. 23 Lou Hoover. 24 Eleanor Roosevelt. 25 Bess Truman. 26 Mamie Eisenhower. 27 Jacqueline ...
Taft called on the chief justice on March 26, and found White ill, but still carrying on his work and not talking of retiring. [192] White did not retire, dying in office on May 19, 1921. Taft issued a tribute to the man he had appointed to the center seat and waited and worried if he would be White's successor.
T. Alphonso Taft; Bazaleel Taft Sr. Bezaleel Taft Jr. Bill Taft; Bob Taft; Charles Phelps Taft; Charles Phelps Taft II; Dudley Taft; Frederick L. Taft; Helen Herron Taft
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