Taft-Lippitt-Chafee family political line

*Peter Rawson Taft (1785-1867), member of the Vermont Legislature. Father of Alphonso Taft.
*Ela Collins (1786-1848), New York Assemblyman 1815, U.S. Representative from New York 1823-1825. Father of William Collins.
*Thomas Wilson (1827-1910), delegate to the Minnesota Constitutional Convention 1857, District Court Judge in Minnesota 1857-1864, Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court 1864-1865, Chief Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court 1865-1869, Minnesota State Representative 1880-1882, Minnesota State Senator 1880-1882, U.S. Representative from Minnesota 1887-1889, candidate for Governor of Minnesota 1890. Grandfather-in-law of Robert A. Taft.
**Alphonso Taft (1810-1891), delegate to the Republican National Convention 1856, candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 1856, Ohio Superior Court Judge 1865-1872, candidate for Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio 1875, U.S. Secretary of War 1876, Attorney General of the United States 1876-1877, U.S. Minister to Austria-Hungary 1882-1884, U.S. Minister to Russia 1884-1885. Son of Peter Rawson Taft.
**William Collins (1818-1878), U.S. Representative from New York 1847-1849. Uncle by marriage of William Taft.
***Charles P. Taft (1843-1929), Ohio State Representative 1871-1873, U.S. Representative from Ohio 1895-1897, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1900 1908 1912. Son of Alphonso Taft.
***William Taft (1857-1930), Ohio Superior Court Judge 1887-1890, Judge of U.S. Court of Appeals 1892-1900, Governor of the Philippines 1900-1904, U.S. Secretary of War 1904-1908, President of the United States 1909-1913, Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1921-1930. Son of Alphonso Taft.
***Henry W. Taft (1859-1945), candidate for Justice of the New York Supreme Court 1898, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1920 1924. Son of Alphonso Taft.
***Henry Lippitt (1818-1891), Governor of Rhode Island 1875-1877.
****Walbridge S. Taft (1885-1951), candidate for U.S. Representative from New York 1916. Son of Henry W. Taft.
****Robert A. Taft (1889-1953), Ohio State Representative 1921-1926, Ohio State Senator 1831-1832, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1839-1853, candidate for Republican nomination for President of the United States 1940 1944 1948 1952, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1944. Son of William Taft.
****Charles Phelps Taft II (1897-1983), Prosecuting Attorney of Hamilton County, Ohio 1927-1928; Cincinnati, Ohio Councilman 1938-1942; candidate for Governor of Ohio 1952; candidate for Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio 1958; Mayor of Cincinnati, Ohio 1955-1957. Son of William Taft.
****Charles W. Lippitt (1846-1924), Governor of Rhode Island 1895-1897. Son of Henry Lippitt.
****Henry F. Lippitt (1856-1933), U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1911-1917. Son of Henry Lippitt and brother-in-law of President William Taft.
*****William Howard Taft III (1915-1991), U.S. Ambassador to Ireland 1953-1957. Grandson of William Taft.
*****Robert Taft, Jr. (1917-1993), Ohio State Representative 1955-1962, delegate to the Republican National Convention 1956 1960, U.S. Representative from Ohio 1963-1965 1967-1971, candidate for U.S. Senate from Ohio 1964, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1971-1976. Son of Robert A. Taft.
*****Seth C. Taft, candidate for Ohio State Senate 1962, candidate for Mayor of Cleveland, Ohio 1967; candidate for Republican nomination for Governor of Ohio 1982. Son of Charles Phelps Taft II.
******Robert A. Taft II (1942-), Ohio State Representative 1977-1981, Ohio Secretary of State 1991-1999, Governor of Ohio 1999-2007. Son of Robert Taft, Jr..
******John Chafee (1922-1999), Rhode Island State Representative 1957-1963, Governor of Rhode Island 1963-1969, U.S. Secretary of the Navy 1969-1972, candidate for U.S. Senate from Rhode Island 1972, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1976-1977. Great-grandson of Henry Lippitt.
*******Lincoln Chafee (1953-), Mayor of Warwick, Rhode Island 1992-1999; U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1999-2007. Son of John Chafee.

ee also

*Taft family
*List of United States political families

Governor Henry Lippitt, born 1818, was not the brother-in-law of President William H Taft. It was his son, Senator Henry Lippitt, born 1856, who married (as his second wife) Lucy Herron, the youngest sister of Helen Herron, wife of President Taft.