Career
He was the eldest of four sons born to Robert Alphonso Taft and Martha Wheaton Bowers. (His predecessor George A Garrett, had also found Costello more sympathetic than De Valera). Taft played a considerable part in organising Costello"s successful State visit to the United States in March 1956. until at least the mid-1980s, perhaps later.
Taft was the father of William Howard Taft IV.