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William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father, Alphonso Taft, was one of the prominent legal figures of his time and served as Secretary of War and Attorney General during President Ulysses S. Grants administration. He also held diplomatic posts for the United States in Austria-Hungary and Russia. Taft grew up in an environment shaped by his family’s high expectations. He graduated second in his class from Yale University in 1878 and subsequently pursued lega