Description: This photograph shows U.S. Senator Robert Taft, Sr., at the Columbus (Ohio) Chamber of Commerce, 1953. Smiling broadly, Taft sits at table on which a newspaper or other printed material is displayed. An unidentified woman is visible in the background. Robert Alphonso Taft, Sr., was a prominent United States senator from Ohio during the mid-twentieth century. Taft was born September 8, 1889, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His father was William Howard Taft, a president of the United States. Robert Taft attended public schools in Cincinnati, as well as schools in Manila, Philippines, where his father was governor general, and the Taft School in Watertown, Connecticut. In 1910 he graduated from Yale University and then earned a law degree at Harvard University in 1913. Upon graduating from Harvard, Taft practiced law in Cincinnati. He served as an assistant counsel to the United States Food Administration from 1917 to 1918. A member of the Republican Party, Taft won election to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1920. He held this office from 1921 to 1926 and eventually rose to the rank of speaker and majority leader. During 1931 and 1932, he served in the Ohio Senate. In 1938, Taft won election to the United States Senate. He served until 1953, winning reelection in 1944 and 1950. His greatest contribution in the Senate was his co-sponsorship of the Taft-Hartley Act, which limited the power of unions by banning "unfair" union practices, outlawed closed union shops, and permitted the federal government to seek federal court injunctions against unions if a strike threatened the national interest. Believing that they were socialistic, Taft also sought to end many of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal programs. In 1940, 1948, and 1952, Taft sought the Republican Party's presidential nomination, but was unsuccessful each time. His firm support of Republican issues led him to be nicknamed "Mr. Republican." On January 3, 1953, he became majority leader of the Senate. Taft died on July 31, 1953, during his third Senate term. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05867
Subjects: Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Taft, Robert A. (Robert Alphonso), 1889-1953; United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947; United States. Congress. Senate; Politicians
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio)
 

Description: Carte de visite portrait of Dr. John G. Rogers, ca. 1860-1864. Dr. Rogers was the physician who assisted at the birth of Civil War general and United State President Ulysses S. Grant. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06096
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Medicine--History; Portrait photography--United States--History--19th century
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Photographic print of an engraved portrait of President Abraham Lincoln, ca. 1861-1865. The original image was a larger carte de visite photograph. Abraham Lincoln was born in Kentucky on February 12, 1809. He became President of the United States in March of 1860. Shortly after being reelected for a second presidential term, Lincoln was shot at Ford Theater in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 1865, by John Wilkes Booth. Lincoln died the following day and was buried in Springfield, Illinois, after a lengthy funeral procession from Washington D.C. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04260
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Portraits
 

Description: Portrait of Civil War General Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, Julia Dent Grant. They met in Missouri in 1844, when Grant was stationed with Dent's brother at the United States Army base at Jefferson Barracks. Within one year, the couple was secretly engaged, as Julia's father, Frederick Dent, initially opposed the marriage due to Grant's lower economic status. Soon, Mr. Dent relented, but the United States had entered into the U.S.-Mexican War, further postponing the marriage. With the war's conclusion, Dent and Grant were married on August 22, 1848. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04523
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Grant Family; Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885
 

Description: Group portrait of members of the Young Peoples' Socialist League of Cleveland, Ohio, on an outing. The photograph is dated May 17, but the year is difficult to read. The photograph was likely taken between 1909 and 1917. Party activist Charles E. Ruthenberg, who went on to found the Communist Party of the USA, is pictured kneeling in the second row. A circle has been drawn around his head. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05166
Subjects: Demonstrations; Socialist Party of the United States of America--History; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Ruthenberg, Charles Emil, 1882-1927; Portrait photography
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: Formal portrait of Harry M. Daugherty, 1921. He served as a campaign adviser to candidate Warren G. Harding during the 1920 presidential campaign. After Harding was elected he appointed Daugherty Attorney General, a cabinet post that Daugherty held from 1921-1924. He resigned amid charges that he was involved in a conspiracy to defraud the government known as the Teapot Dome scandal. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL01004
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
 

Description: Portrait of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), an attorney from Cleveland, Ohio, who served in the Ohio state legislature (1848-1850) and in the United States House of Representatives (1861–1863). Riddle was also a prominent abolitionist involved with the defense of the Oberlin Rescuers in 1859, and a supporter of the women's suffrage movement, notable for his speech titled "The right of women to exercise the elective franchise under the Fourteenth Article of the Constitution," given during a suffrage convention in Washington, D.C., January 11, 1871. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05194
Subjects: United States - Officials and employees; Lawyers--Ohio; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics; Abolitionists -- Ohio; Suffrage -- Ohio;
Places: Cleveland (Ohio); Cuyahoga County (Ohio)
 

Description: 1880 political cartoon for "Puck Magazine" titled "The Political Handicap--Who Will Ride the Democratic Entry?" In this cartoon, Republican candidate James A. Garfield is depicted as a jockey with the weight of Arthur and Credit Mobilier on his back against the Democratic Party hopefuls. Included in this latter group are Winfield S. Hancock, who won the 1880 Democratic primary, as well as Thomas A. Hendricks, Allen G. Thurman, Thomas F. Bayard, Samuel J. Tilden, and Samuel J. Randall. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_0565
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Political primaries; Presidential elections--United States--1880; Political cartoons
Places: Cincinnati (Ohio); Hamilton County (Ohio);
 

Description: Political cartoon from "Puck Magazine" featuring James A. Garfield as a bride marrying Uncle Sam. The caption reads, "Forbidding the Banns. The Bride (Garfield):- `But it was such a little one!'" A man labelled "Democratic N.C." (National Convention) is rushing to the altar with an infant labelled "Credit Mobilier." View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: OVS_0566
Subjects: Ohio Government; Presidents and Politics; Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881; Political primaries; Presidential elections--United States--1880; Crédit Mobilier scandal; Political cartoons
Places: Columbus (Ohio); Franklin County (Ohio);
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Ulysses S. Grant, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Ulysses S Grant was born on April 27, 1822, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. He was named Hiram Ulysses Grant and was called by his middle name. After he joined the army, he was called Ulysses S. Grant. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04245
Subjects: Generals--United States; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Portrait of General Ulysses S. Grant, from "The Pictorial History of the Great Civil War" by John Laird Wilson, 1878. Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1825, in Point Pleasant, Ohio. Although he was named Hiram Ulysses, he was called by his middle name. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04246
Subjects: Generals--United States; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885; Ohio History--Presidents and Politics
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio)
 

Description: Modern reproduction of a photograph depicting General Ulysses S. Grant posed with his staff while campaigning in Virginia during the Civil War, 1864. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL06095
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio History--Military Ohio; Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Military leadership; Presidents
Places: Point Pleasant (Ohio); Clermont County (Ohio); Virginia