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Birth: Apr. 14, 1785 Uxbridge Worcester County Massachusetts, USA Death: Jan. 1, 1867 Cincinnati Hamilton County Ohio, USA

Vermont Legislator. Born in Massachusetts, Peter Taft moved to Vermont and became a member of the Vermont State Legislature. He was the patriarch of the Taft family political dynasty. This dynasty that lasted nearly 200 years, included US Secretary of War and Attorney General Alphonso Taft, US President and Chief Justice William Howard Taft, US Senator Robert A Taft, Governor and Senator Robert Taft Jr, and Governor Robert Taft II.

President William Howard Taft's grandfather, Peter Rawson Taft I, was born in Uxbridge in 1785 and grew up there. His father Aaron moved to Townshend, Vermont, because of the difficult economy, when he was fifteen. The story is told that Peter Rawson walked a cow all the way from Uxbridge to Townshend, a distance of well over 100 miles. The "Aaron Taft house" is now on the National Register of Historic Places. Peter Rawson Taft I became a Vermont legislator and eventually died in Hamilton County, Cincinnati, Ohio. Peter Rawson Taft's son, Alphonso Taft, founded Skull and Bones at Yale, served as U.S. Secretary of War, and his son William Howard became the U.S. President. The ancestry of U.S. presidents traces to Uxbridge and Mendon more than once, including both presidents bearing the last name Bush. ...

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