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William Howard Taft National Historic Site
The William Howard Taft National
Historic Site in Cincinnati, Ohio was started in 1969, and is where
the former President of the United States and Chief Justice of the
United States was born and lived for the first 25 years of his life.
Taft was born in 1857, in the Mount Auburn Historic district of
Cincinnati, that was once a suburb of the city, but has since been
incorporated into it. The house was built in 1835 and is a two story
Greek Revival that was constructed in the wealthy area outside of
the city that was hot, smoky, dirty and very crowded. Taft's father,
Alphonso Taft, came here from Vermont in 1839 to start his new law
practice, bringing his family here ten years later. Alphonso was one
of the earliest supporters of the new Republican party in the city
and would later become the 31st US secretary of war and 35th US
attorney general.
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