Taft family

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Taft family
Alphonso Taft William H. Taft Robert A. Taft
Current region	New England, United States
Place of origin	Norwich, Norfolk, England County Louth, Ireland
Connected families	Lippitt family
Estate(s)	Ohio compound

This article is part of a series about William Howard Taft
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The Taft family is an American political family of English descent, with origins in Massachusetts.^[1] Its members have served in the states of Massachusetts, Ohio, Rhode Island, Utah, and Vermont, and the United States federal government, in various positions such as representative (two), governor of Ohio, governor of Rhode Island, senator (three), secretary of agriculture, attorney general, secretary of war (two), acting secretary of defense, president, and chief justice.