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[[Image:Taft40.jpg|thumb|260px|''Time'' Jan. 29, 1940]]
{{Officeholder
|name=Robert A. Taft
|image=
|party=[[Republican]]
|spouse=Martha Wheaton Bowers
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/senator
|state=Ohio
|terms= January 3, 1939 – July 31, 1953
|preceded= Robert J. Bulkey
|status=
|succeeded= Robert A. Burke
}}
}}
'''Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr.''' (1889–1953), son of President [[William Howard Taft]], was a leading Republican Senator, 1938–53, and was known as "Mr. Republican". He was a leader of the [[Conservative Coalition]], working with southern Democrats to control Congress. Little major legislation passed the Senate against his objections. His crowning achievement was writing and passing, over President [[Harry Truman|Truman]]'s veto, the [[Taft-Hartley Act]] of 1947. It balanced the interests of unions, management and the public.
