Oral history interview with Charles P. Taft, 1968.

Biographical Note

Lawyer.

Scope and Contents

Role in origin of the 1920s Charter Movement in Ohio; proportional representation debate; work towards urban coalition; Cincinnati and Ohio politics and corruption during 1920s; recollectiions of brother, Robert A. Taft: support of Zionist causes, organization at 1948 national Republican convention, Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act; activities at Taft School and Yale University, law practice in Cincinnati.

Subjects

• Interviews.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Ohio--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Patterson, James T., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Presidents--United States--Election--1948.
• Taft, Charles P. (Charles Phelps), 1897-1983--Interviews.
• Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• Yale University.