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Catalog Number: DCLCMM7842226-A
Title: Robert A. Taft Papers, 1885 - 1980 (bulk 1938 - 1953).
Author: Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889 - 1953.
Quantity: 522,000 items. 1,453 containers plus 1 oversize plus 1 classified. 581 linear feet.
Access restrictions: Classified, in part.
Historical/Biographical Note: U.S. senator from Ohio, Republican Party leader, and lawyer.
Summary: Correspondence, family and personal papers, political and legislative files, subject files, business and financial papers, speeches and writings, and other papers relating primarily to Taft's career in the U.S. Senate (1939-1953) and to his role as a national leader in the Republican Party. Subjects include a large range of public policy and legislative issues, especially in the areas of the economy, labor, defense, foreign policy, taxation, and veterans' affairs. Topics include his Cincinnati law practice, Ohio politics, public housing and education, and political campaigns of 1938, 1940, 1944, 1948, 1950, and 1952, and Yale University. Also includes papers concerning Taft's personal life and family especially his wife, Martha Bowers Taft, and his parents, William Howard and Helen Herron Taft.
Among the many prominent persons represented by correspondence or subject matter are John W. Bricker, Forrest Davis, Thomas E. Dewey, Everett Dirksen, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John B. Hollister, Herbert Hoover, David S. Ingalls, Julius Klein, David E. Lilienthal, Douglas MacArthur, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harold E. Stassen, Adlai E. Stevenson, Harry S. Truman, and Wendell Willkie.
Other descriptions: Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room.
Custodial History: 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.
Location of originals: Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C.
Subject: United States. Congress. Senate.
Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Yale University.
Economics.
Education.
Elections -- United States -- 1938.
Elections -- United States -- 1940.
Elections -- United States -- 1944.
Elections -- United States -- 1948.
Elections -- United States -- 1950.
Elections -- United States -- 1952.
Housing.
Labor and laboring classes -- Law and legislation.
Military policy.
Practice of law -- Ohio -- Cincinnati.
Taxation.
Veterans -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Ohio -- Politics and government.
United States -- Foreign relations.
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.
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
Stassen, Harold Edward, 1907-
Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965.
Taft, Helen Herron, 1861-1943.
Taft, Martha Wheaton Bowers, d. 1958.
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930.
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972.
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944.
Taft family.
Lawyers. itoamc
Politicians. itoamc
Senators, U.S. Congress -- Ohio. itoamc
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