Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso) 1889-1953 creator mixed material monographic eng 522,000 1,451 1 3 581 Correspondence, speeches, writings, political and legislative files, subject files, business and financial records, family papers, and other papers relating primarily to Taft's career as a U.S. senator and to his role as a national leader in the Republican Party. Subjects include public policy and legislative issues especially in the areas of defense, economic policy, education, finance, foreign policy, labor, public housing, taxation, and veterans' affairs. Topics include his Cincinnati law practice, World War I service, national and Ohio state politics, political campaigns between 1938 and 1952, and Yale University. Family members represented include Taft's parents, Helen Herron Taft and William H. Taft; his sister, Helen Taft Manning; his wife, Martha Wheaton Bowers Taft; and his son, Robert Taft. Individuals represented by correspondence or subject matter are John W. Bricker, Forrest Davis, Thomas E. Dewey, Everett McKinley Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John B. Hollister, Herbert Hoover, David S. Ingalls, Julius Klein, David Eli Lilienthal, Douglas MacArthur, Henry F. Pringle, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold E. Stassen, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, and Wendell L. Willkie. Open to research. Classified, in part. Photographs transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Sound recordings and newsreel film transferred to Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. U.S. senator from Ohio, Republican Party leader, and lawyer. Collection material in English. Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011071 Bricker, John W. (John William) 1893-1986 Davis, Forrest 1893-1962 Dewey, Thomas E. (Thomas Edmund) 1902-1971 Dirksen, Everett McKinley Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David) 1890-1969 Hollister, John B. (John Baker) 1890-1978 Hoover, Herbert 1874-1964 Ingalls, David S. (David Sinton) 1899- Klein, Julius 1901-1984 Lilienthal, David Eli 1899-1981 MacArthur, Douglas 1880-1964 Manning, Helen Taft 1891-1987 Pringle, Henry F. (Henry Fowles) 1897-1958 Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano) 1882-1945 Stassen, Harold Edward 1907-2001 Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing) 1900-1965 Taft, Helen Herron 1861-1943 Taft, Martha Wheaton Bowers -1958 Taft, Robert 1917-1993 Taft, William H. (William Howard) 1857-1930 Truman, Harry S 1884-1972 Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis) 1892-1944 Taft family United States. Congress. Senate. Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- ) Yale University. Education United States Elections United States Labor United States Practice of law Ohio Cincinnati Public housing United States Taxation United States Veterans United States World War, 1914-1918 Ohio Politics and government United States Defenses United States Economic policy 20th century United States Foreign relations 20th century United States Politics and government 1901-1953 Lawyers Politicians Senators, U.S. Congress mm 78042226 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011071 hdl:loc.mss/eadmss.ms011071.3 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011071 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms011071.3 Open to research. Classified, in part. DLC 780817 20260227111626.0 mm 78042226