The Congressman from Ohio went over to the Supreme Court, had his credentials presented, got sworn in, signed the register, paid his $25, and went back to work on Capitol Hill. For freshman Representative Robert A. Taft Jr., 46. admission to practice before the highest U.S. tribunal placed him squarely in a family tradition that goes back before the Civil War. Preceding him to the Supreme Court bar were his father, the late Senator Robert A. Taft; grandfather. President William Howard Taft; and great-grandfather, Alphonso Taft, Attorney General under President Grant.
Living in Italy since 1958, when the U.S. found him mentally...
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