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Name: Alphonso Taft
Birth Date: November 5, 1810
Death Date: May 21, 1891
Place of Birth: Townshend, Vermont, United States
Place of Death: San Diego, California, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: attorney general

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Biography of Alphonso Taft
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Alphonso Taft served as U.S. attorney general from 1876 to 1877 during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant. Taft, who previously acted as Grant's Secretary of War, was the father of William Howard Taft, who served as both President and...


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Alphonso Taft (November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and the founder of an American political dynasty. Born in Townshend, Vermont, he graduated from Yale College in 1833,...


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William Howard Taft revered the law.He studied it, worked with it as a lawyer and a judge and helped craft it as president.He even molded a fledgling nation (not ours) by nurturing it. The modern Supreme Court is very much a product of the man...


 

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