Background
Taft, Charles Phelps was born on September 20, 1897 in Cincinnati. Son of William Howard and Helen (Herron) Taft.
Taft, Charles Phelps was born on September 20, 1897 in Cincinnati. Son of William Howard and Helen (Herron) Taft.
Doctor of Laws, University Toledo, 1934, U. Rochester, Miami University, Ohio Wesleyan University, Yale University, 1952. Doctor of Civil Law, Union College. Doctor of Hebrew Literature, Hebrew Union College.
Bar: Ohio bar 1922. Since practiced in, Cincinnati. Prosecuting attorney, Hamilton County, Ohio, 1927-1928. Member Cincinnati City Council, 1938-1942, 48-51, 55-77.
Mayor of Cincinnati, 1955-1957.
Served to First lieutenant United States Army, 1917-1918, Advertising Educational Foundation in France. Member American, Ohio, Cincinnati bar associations, Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Phi.
Married Eleanor K. Chase, October 6, 1917 (deceased. Children: Eleanor Kellogg Taft Hall, Sylvia Howard Taft Lotspeich, Seth Chase, Lucia (deceased), Cynthia Taft Morris, Rosalyn (deceased), Peter R. Bachelor of Arts, Yale University, 1918, Bachelor of Laws, 1921.