Background
He was born on December 21, 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Alphonso Taft, and his younger brother was William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States.
United States representative politician
He was born on December 21, 1843 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Alphonso Taft, and his younger brother was William Howard Taft, the 27th President of the United States.
Half brother of President William Howard, Henry Watters and Horace Dutton T. Bachelor of Arts, Yale, 1864, Master of Arts, 1867. Juris Utriusque Doctor, Heidelberg, 1887.
Also studied at Berlin and Paris. Doctor of Laws, University of Cincinnati, 1923.
In 1867 he received another degree from the University of Heidelberg. In 1869 he resumed his law practice. Taft married Anna Sinton in 1873, who was an heiress to a pig iron fortune, left by her father David Sinton.
Today their former home is the Taft Museum of Artist
In 1879 he became editor of the Cincinnati Times-Star, which would later be bought by the Cincinnati Post. This began the Taft media empire which was his main claim to fame.
In 1895 he went to Congress, but served only two years. He returned to the newspaper business after that and for a time owned the Philadelphia Phillies baseball team from 1905 to 1913, and then the Chicago Cubs baseball team from 1914 to 1916.
He died on December 31, 1929.
Following his death, Annie (Anna) Sinton Taft donated $5 million to the University of Cincinnati in 1930 and established a memorial fund after his name. This fund was transformed in 2005 into the Charles Phelps Taft Research Center at the University of Cincinnati. The city of Taft, Texas was named after him in 1904.
Member Ohio House of Representatives, 1871. Member 54th Congress (1895-1897), 1st Ohio District.
Married Annie, daughter; children: Jane Ellison (Mistress Albert South. Ingalls), David Sinton (deceased), Anna Louise (Mistress William T. Semple), Charles Howard.