William Howard Taft III
William Howard Taft III | |
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United States Ambassador to Ireland | |
In office May 13, 1953 – June 25, 1957 | |
President | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Preceded by | Francis P. Matthews |
Succeeded by | Scott McLeod |
Personal details | |
Born | PhD) | August 7, 1915
Profession | Diplomat and professor |
William Howard Taft III (August 7, 1915 – February 23, 1991) was an American diplomat who served as
Early life
William Howard Taft III was born on August 7, 1915, and was the eldest of four sons born to Robert A. Taft (1889–1953) and Martha Wheaton Bowers (1889–1958),[3] daughter of Lloyd Wheaton Bowers (1859–1910), the former solicitor general of the United States from 1909 to 1910.[4]: 127 His three brothers were: Robert Taft Jr. (1917–1993), who was elected to the U.S. Senate; Lloyd Bowers Taft (1923–1985),[5] who worked as an investment banker in Cincinnati,[6] and Horace Dwight Taft (1925–1983), who became a professor of physics and dean at Yale.[7] At the time of his birth, his grandfather had just ended his Presidency and had recently become the Kent Professor of Law and Legal History at Yale Law School.[8] Taft graduated from Yale University and earned a doctorate from Princeton University.[9]
Career
After graduating from Princeton, Taft taught English at the
In 1949, he went to Dublin as part of the Marshall Plan aid mission and worked for the Central Intelligence Agency and the Defense Department from 1951 to 1953.[9]
Ambassador to Ireland
In 1953,
In 1957, Eisenhower appointed
Personal life
Taft married Barbara Bradfield, with whom he had four children:[9]
- John Thomas Taft
- William Howard Taft IV (b. 1945), who married Julia Vadala (1942–2008)[10]
- Maria Herron Taft, who married John Clemow, son of Albert George Clemow, in 1971.[11]
- Martha Bowers Taft, who married Michael Golden, son of the British Michael Golden, in 1971.[12]
Taft was a member of the Metropolitan Club of Washington, D.C. He died of prostate cancer at his Washington home on February 23, 1991.[9]
See also
References
- ^ "HERE'S ANOTHER REPUBLICAN VOTER---HE IS FIRST GRANDCHILD OF EX-PRESIDENT TAFT". The Pittsburgh Press. October 13, 1915. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ "William Howard Taft III (1915–1991)". history.state.gov. Retrieved April 20, 2017.
- ^ "Myrootsplace". myrootsplace.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15.
- ^ Fraternity, Psi Upsilon (1917). The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity. Retrieved March 24, 2011.
- ^ "Myrootsplace". myrootsplace.com. Archived from the original on 2013-06-15. Retrieved 2016-08-08.
- ^ "Lloyd B. Taft Obituary". The New York Times. October 23, 1985. Retrieved 2012-04-25.
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- ^ a b c d e f "W. H. Taft 3d, 75, Ex-Envoy to Ireland And Son of Senator". The New York Times. 26 February 1991. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Lamb, Yvonne Shinhoster (19 March 2008). "Julia Taft; Crisis Manager Helped Resettle Refugees". The Washington Post. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Times, Special To The New York (9 December 1971). "Maria Taft Wed to John Clemow". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- ^ Times, Special To The New York (21 September 1971). "Miss Martha B. Taft Is Bride Of Michael Golden in Scotland". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 August 2016.
- Gould, Lewis L. (2014). Chief Executive to Chief Justice:Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 978-0-7006-2001-2.
Further reading
- "Interview with William Howard Taft III". Interviewed by Charles Stuart Kennedy. Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training. April 30, 1987 – via Library of Congress.