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Helen Herron Taft’s political ambitions for her husband, along with her avid interest in politics, were connected to her discomfort with the peripheral role assigned to young women of her class in late nineteenth-century America. Far more than a social decoration, Mrs. Taft was a well-educated, imaginative, and energetic person in a time and place that offered a woman of her genteel class ...
Born - January 2, 1861 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Parents - John Williamson Herron & Harriet Collins Herron. Married - June 19, 1886 to William Howard Taft. Children - Robert Alphonso (1889 – 1953), Helen Herron (1891 – 1987), Charles Phelps (1897 – 1983) Education - Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Firsts - 1st First Lady to ride with the ...
She suffered a stroke two months after President Taft’s inauguration that impaired her speech to the point of having to relearn how to form sounds. During this time, she relied on her sisters and college-aged daughter to substitute for her during social functions. Helen Taft employed African American men as ushers for the first time in the ...
Helen Louise Herron Taft (ur. 2 czerwca 1861 w Cincinnati, zm. 22 maja 1943 w Waszyngtonie) – pierwsza dama Stanów Zjednoczonych w latach 1909–1913, jako żona prezydenta Williama Tafta .
HELEN LOUISE "NELLIE" HERRON TAFT. Birth: 2 June, 1861. Cincinnati, Ohio. She was called "Nellie" from childhood on. The nickname served as a further distinction from her daughter Helen. As First Lady, she nevertheless signed correspondence to non-family members as "Helen H." In naming her only daughter after herr, the family also made the ...
Born: Cincinati, OH. Married: William Taft, 1886. Children: Helen, Robert, Charles. First Lady: 1909-1913. Perhaps no other First Lady was as responsible for her husband's election to the nation's highest office as was Helen (Nellie) Herron Taft. Although her husband weighed 350 pounds, it was Helen who knew how to throw her weight around.
When President Theodore Roosevelt appointed William Taft Secretary of War in 1904, the Tafts returned to the United States via Japan, where they were celebrated as political celebrities. Stateside, Mrs.Taft read the McMillan Commission's "city beautiful" plan for the capital, and discovered another niche. Commissioner Daniel Burnham traveled to Manila to see Luneta, and in 1906 a Luneta type ...
