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Known throughout his life for his brilliant grasp of complexity, he was first in his class at the [[Taft School]] (run by his uncle), at [[Yale College]] (1910) and at [[Harvard Law School]] (1913), where he edited the ''Harvard Law Review''. He practiced law with the firm of Maxwell and Ramsey in [[Cincinnati, Ohio]]. On Oct. 17, 1914, he married Martha Wheaton Bowers, the daughter of Lloyd Bowers, who had served as his father's solicitor general.
Taft confessed in l922 1922 that "while I have no difficulty talking, I don't know how to do any of the eloquence business which makes for enthusiasm or applause".<ref>Taft ''Papers'' 1:271</ref> Taft himself appeared taciturn and coldly intellectual, characteristics that were offset by his gregarious wife, who served the same role his mother had for his father, as a confident and powerful asset to her husband's political career. They had four sons. Robert Alphonso Taft, Jr., served as a senator from Ohio. Horace Dwight Taft, became a professor of physics and dean at Yale. William Howard III served as ambassador to Ireland.
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