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词条 William Howard Taft III
释义

  1. Early life

  2. Career

     Ambassador to Ireland 

  3. Personal life

  4. See also

  5. References

  6. Further reading

  7. External links

{{Infobox US Ambassador
| name = William Howard Taft III
| image = WHTiii.jpg
| caption = Taft speaking in 1959 in front of a statue of his father, Robert A. Taft
| imagesize =
| order =
| ambassador_from = United States
| country = Ireland
| term_start = May 13, 1953
| term_end = June 25, 1957
| president = Dwight D. Eisenhower
| predecessor = Francis P. Matthews
| successor = Scott McLeod
| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|8|7}}
| birth_place = Bar Harbor, Maine[1]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|2|23|1915|8|7}}
| death_place = Washington, D.C.
| spouse = Barbara Bradfield
| party = Republican
| profession = Diplomat and professor
| religion =
| parents = Robert A. Taft
Martha Wheaton Bowers Taft
| relations = William Howard Taft (grandfather)
| children = 4, incl. William Howard Taft IV
| alma_mater = Yale University
Princeton University
}}

William Howard Taft III (August 7, 1915 – February 23, 1991) was an American diplomat who served as United States Ambassador to Ireland from 1953 to 1957,[2] and was a grandson of President William Howard Taft and First Lady Helen Louise "Nellie" Taft.

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]{{rp|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]
  • 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.{{sfn|Gould 2014|pp=5–12}} Taft graduated from Yale University and earned a doctorate from Princeton University.[8]

Career

After graduating from Princeton, Taft taught English at the University of Maryland and Haverford College. During World War II, Taft became an analyst in military intelligence. After the war ended, he went back to Yale and taught there.[8]

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.[8]

Ambassador to Ireland

In 1953, President Eisenhower appointed Taft U.S. ambassador to Ireland. His task as ambassador was made easier by the fact that John A. Costello (Taoiseach, 1954–57) was a personal friend; Taft described Costello as "pleasant and unassuming" whereas he had found Éamon de Valera "formal and aloof". (His predecessor, George A. Garrett, had also found Costello more sympathetic than de Valera.) Taft played a considerable part in organizing Costello's successful state visit to the United States in March 1956.

In 1957, Eisenhower appointed R. W. Scott McLeod as his successor to the Ambassadorship and Taft returned to the State Department as a member of its policy planning staff. He remained with State until 1960, when he became Consul General in Mozambique. He retired from the State Department's bureau for scientific, environmental and space affairs in 1977.[8]

Personal life

Taft married Barbara Bradfield, with whom he had four children:[8]

  • John Thomas Taft
  • William Howard Taft IV (b. 1945), who married Julia Vadala (1942–2008)[8]
  • Maria Herron Taft, who married John Clemow, son of Albert George Clemow, in 1971.[9]
  • Martha Bowers Taft, who married Michael Golden, son of the British Michael Golden, in 1971.[10]

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.[11]

See also

  • Taft family

References

1. ^{{cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/10412180/taft_iii_birth/ |title=HERE'S ANOTHER REPUBLICAN VOTER---HE IS FIRST GRANDCHILD OF EX-PRESIDENT TAFT |newspaper=The Pittsburgh Press |url-access=limited |date=October 13, 1915 |accessdate=April 20, 2017}}
2. ^{{cite web |url=https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/people/taft-william-howard |title=William Howard Taft III (1915–1991) |website=history.state.gov |accessdate=April 20, 2017}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://myrootsplace.com/getperson.php?personID=I108060&tree=mrptree|archive-url=https://archive.is/20130615064215/http://myrootsplace.com/getperson.php?personID=I108060&tree=mrptree|dead-url=yes|archive-date=2013-06-15|title=Myrootsplace|work=myrootsplace.com}}
4. ^{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iCN-AAAAIAAJ | title=The twelfth general catalogue of the Psi Upsilon Fraternity | accessdate=March 24, 2011 | year=1917}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://myrootsplace.com/getperson.php?personID=I114041&tree=mrptree|title=Myrootsplace|work=myrootsplace.com}}
6. ^{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/10/23/us/lloyd-b-taft.html|title=Lloyd B. Taft Obituary|accessdate=2012-04-25 | work=The New York Times|date=October 23, 1985}}
7. ^{{cite journal|author=Adair, Robert K.; Sandweiss, Jack; Pless, Irwin A.|title=Obituary: Horace Dwight Taft|journal=Physics Today|date=August 1983|volume=36|issue=8|page=77|url=http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v36/i8/p77_s2?bypassSSO=1|doi=10.1063/1.2915814}}
8. ^{{cite news|last1=Lamb|first1=Yvonne Shinhoster|title=Julia Taft; Crisis Manager Helped Resettle Refugees|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/18/AR2008031803341.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=The Washington Post|date=19 March 2008}}
9. ^{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Maria Taft Wed to John Clemow|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/12/09/archives/maria-taft-wed-to-john-clemow.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=9 December 1971}}
10. ^{{cite news|last1=Times|first1=Special To The New York|title=Miss Martha B. Taft Is Bride Of Michael Golden in Scotland|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/21/archives/miss-martha-b-taft-is-bride-of-michael-golden-in-scotland.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=21 September 1971}}
11. ^{{cite news|title=W. H. Taft 3d, 75, Ex-Envoy to Ireland And Son of Senator|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/02/26/obituaries/w-h-taft-3d-75-ex-envoy-to-ireland-and-son-of-senator.html|accessdate=8 August 2016|work=The New York Times|date=26 February 1991}}
  • {{cite book|ref={{sfnRef|Gould 2014}}|last=Gould|first=Lewis L.|title=Chief Executive to Chief Justice:Taft Betwixt the White House and Supreme Court|year=2014|isbn=978-0-7006-2001-2|publisher=University Press of Kansas|location=Lawrence, KS}}

Further reading

  • {{cite web |url=http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mfdip.2004taf02 |title=Interview with William Howard Taft III |date=April 30, 1987 |interviewer=Charles Stuart Kennedy |agency=Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training |via=Library of Congress}}

External links

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