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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.
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 2024 Harding Symposium July 19-20 will feature four descendants of former first ladies Helen "Nellie" Taft, Edith Wilson and Florence Harding. Descendants panel sharing stories about first ...
This was complicated by the attempts of Taft's wife, Helen Herron Taft, to exert her own influence on the White House. [158] Edith and Helen had developed a rivalry over the years, both distrusting each other and the other's husband. [159] This contributed to a similar animosity between Theodore and William in the following years. [160]
Helen and William Howard Taft married in 1886, and he described his wife as a "self-contained, independent, and of unusual application," calling her a "treasure." Woodrow and Edith Wilson: 2 ...
First Ladies: Influence & Image is a 35-episode American television series produced by C-SPAN that originally aired from February 25, 2013 to February 10, 2014. Each episode originally aired live and looked at the life and times of one or more of the first ladies of the United States . [ 1 ]
William Howard Taft III (1915–1991) Robert A. Taft (1917–1993) Lloyd Bowers Taft (1923–1985) Horace Dwight Taft (1925–1983) Helen Herron Taft Nickname: Helene: August 1, 1891 – February 21, 1987 Frederick Johnson Manning Mother of: Helen Taft Manning (1921–2013) Caroline Manning (1925–2020) Charles Phelps Taft II Nickname: Charlie
In 1912, Tokyo’s Mayor Yukio Osaki sent trees to Helen Taft, the wife of then-president William Taft as a gift of goodwill from Japan to the United States. The 2,000 trees arrived, but ...