Alphonso TAFT, SECRETARY OF WAR ATTORNEY GENERAL
Alphonso Taft was a successful Lawyer and later Judge. He becameSecretary of War of the United States of America and then Attorney General of theUnited States of America in the Cabinet of President Ulysses Simpson Grant.He also was appointed Foreign Minister to Austria-Hungary and Russiarepresenting the United States of America. Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.
Source includes, but is not limited to: Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.
He was a Member of the Society of the Cincinnati (1783). He was a Member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants(1897). He was a Member of The Society of Descendants of Knights of the MostNoble Order of the Garter (1929). He was a Founder and President. Sources include, but are not limited to; The Hereditary Register of the United States (1981). See also; Ancestral File and the IGI, International Genealogical Index,both resource systems developed and solely owned by The Church of JesusChrist of Latter Day Saints.
He married Louisa Maria Torrey 26 Dec 1853 at Millbury, Worcester, Massachusetts . Louisa Maria Torrey was born at Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts 11 Sep 1827 daughter of Samuel Davenport Torrey and Susan Holman Waters .
They were the parents of 4
children:
William Howard Taft, 27th President of the Usa
born 15 Sep 1857.
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Alphonso Taft, Secretary of War Attorney General died 21 May 1891 at San Diego, San Diego, California .
Louisa Maria Torrey died 8 Dec 1907 at Milbury, Worcester, Massachusetts .