Taft Administration - Early Life
Early Life
From an early age, William Howard Taft was very large. As he matured, Taft might have been the butt of many a joke because of his size, but his good-naturedness instead made him well liked rather than taunted and teased. That characteristic was apparent all through his life.
Taft's father, Alphonso Taft, was, like his more famous son, a Yale graduate, lawyer, judge, and cabinet officer, serving Ulysses S. Grant as both secretary of war and attorney general in the 1870s. Taft was very much like his father and shared his father's aspirations to be a lawyer and a judge, rather than a politician. Taft's mother, Louise Taft, in some sense may have known her son better than he did himself for she discouraged him from entering politics, believing that a political career would make her son miserable.
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