William Howard Taft IV (born on September 13, 1945 in Washington, D.C., USA) is the son of William Howard Taft III and the great-grandson of U. Events 509 BC - The Temple of Jupiter on Rome 's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September Year 1945 ( MCMXLV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D The United States of America —commonly referred to as the William Howard Taft III (1915-1991 was the grandson of William Howard Taft and served as U S. President William Howard Taft (see also Taft family). William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 – March 8 1930 was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice The Taft family of the United States hails from Cincinnati Ohio with historic origins in Massachusetts; its members have served Ohio, Taft is an attorney who has served in the United States government under several Republican administrations. An attorney at law (or attorney-at-law) in the United States is a practitioner in a court of law who is legally qualified to prosecute
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Education, family
Taft attended St. Paul's School, graduating with classmate John Kerry in 1962. This is about St Paul's School in the United States For other schools with the same name see the disambiguation page. } John Forbes Kerry (born December 11 1943 is an American Politician who is currently serving his fourth term as the junior United States Senator He earned his bachelor of arts degree in English from Yale University in 1966 and his law degree from Harvard Law School in 1969. Harvard Law School (also known as Harvard Law or HLS) is one of the professional Graduate schools of Harvard University.
He and his late wife, Julia Vadala Taft, had three children—Maria Consetta Taft, Julia Harris Taft, and William Howard Taft V. [1] He resides in Lorton, Va.
Government service and legal career
Taft served briefly as attorney adviser to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission in 1970. The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC) is an independent agency of the United States government, established in 1914 by the Federal Trade Commission Act
From 1970 to 1973, he was the principal assistant to Caspar W. Weinberger, who was deputy director, then director, of the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President under President Richard Nixon. Caspar Willard "Cap" Weinberger ( August 18, 1917 &ndash March 28, 2006) was an American politician and Secretary The Office of Management and Budget (OMB is a Cabinet -level office and is the largest office within the Executive Office of the President of the United States (EOP The Executive Office of the President ( EOP) consists of the immediate staff of the President of the United States, as well as multiple levels of support staff reporting Taft assisted him in the management of the budgetary process, policy review, and program oversight for the entire federal government.
Taft served from 1973 to 1976 as the executive assistant to the secretary of the U. S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. In April 1976 Taft was appointed by President Ford to serve as general counsel of the U. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr (July 14 1913 December 26 2006 was the thirty-eighth President of the United States, serving from 1974 to 1977 and the fortieth Vice President S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. As such, he was the chief lawyer for the department and the principal administrator of the Office of the General Counsel, which consisted of approximately 350 lawyers in Washington and 10 regional offices.
During the Carter administration, he was an attorney with the Washington, D. James Earl "Jimmy" Carter Jr (born October 1 1924 was the thirty-ninth President of the United States, serving from 1977 to 1981 and the recipient of the 2002 C. law firm of Leva, Hawes, Symington, Martin and Oppenheimer.
In February 1981, as one of his first appointments, President Ronald Reagan appointed Taft as general counsel of the United States Department of Defense. Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 The United States Department of Defense ( DOD or DoD) is the federal department charged with coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government Taft was then appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense and served from January 1984 to April 1989. The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Defense. He served as acting Secretary of Defense from January to March 1989 after George H. W. Bush became president. The United States Secretary of Defense ( SECDEF) is the head of the U George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12 1924 served as the forty-first President of the United States from 1989 to 1993 Bush's initial nominee, John Tower, was not confirmed by the United States Senate after much contentious debate and testimony. John Goodwin Tower ( September 29, 1925 – April 5, 1991) was the first Republican United States senator from Texas The United States Senate is the Upper house of the bicameral United States Congress, the Lower house being the House of Representatives The eventual appointee confirmed in March was Richard B. Cheney, who became vice president in 2001. Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney (born January 30 1941 is the forty-sixth and current Vice President of the United States. Although he was only acting Secretary of Defense, and never confirmed as the permanent Secretary, he became the third member of his family to hold a position as civilian head of a military department, following his great-great-grandfather Alphonso Taft (under President Ulysses S. Grant) and his great-grandfather William Howard Taft (under President Theodore Roosevelt). Alphonso Taft ( November 5, 1810 – May 21, 1891) was the Attorney General and Secretary of War under President Ulysses S Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant (April 27 1822 &ndash July 23 1885 was an American general and the eighteenth President of the United States William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 – March 8 1930 was an American politician, the twenty-seventh President of the United States, the tenth Chief Justice Theodore Roosevelt (ˈroʊzəvɛlt October 27 1858 January 6 1919 also known as T
Taft served as U.S. Permanent Representative to NATO, which has the rank of ambassador, from 1989 to 1992, during the Gulf War. The United States Permanent Representative to NATO (commonly called the US Ambassador to NATO is the official representative of the United States to the North Atlantic Treaty
During the Clinton administration, Taft entered private practice with the Washington, D.C., law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton (born William Jefferson Blythe III, August 19 1946 served as the forty-second President of the United States Washington DC ( formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, the District, or simply D Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP is an international Law firm with offices in New York City, Washington DC, London, Paris
Service in George W. Bush administration
After the election of 2000, George W. Bush appointed Taft to serve as chief legal advisor to the United States Department of State under Secretary of State Colin Powell, with whom he was reportedly friends. 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar. George Walker Bush ( born July 6 1946 is the forty-third and current President of the United States. Colin Luther Powell, KCB (Honorary MSC, (born April 5, 1937) is a retired General in the United States Army. This appointment was technically a significantly lower appointment than he had held in other administrations, but it permitted him to work with his wife, Julia Taft, a top State Department official in charge of refugees who also served during the Clinton administration. According to the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, a refugee is a person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race
In 2004, Taft's name surfaced as a dissenter concerning the policy of interrogation techniques for military detainees. [2] In a January 11, 2002, memo, Taft opposed Justice Department lawyers to argue that the president could not "suspend" U. Events 1055 - Theodora is crowned Empress of the Byzantine Empire. See also 2002 (disambiguation Year 2002 ( MMII) was a Common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. S. obligations to respect the Geneva Conventions and that a legal argument to do so was "legally flawed and procedurally impossible. The Geneva Conventions consist of four Treaties formulated in Geneva, Switzerland, that set the standards for International law for humanitarian " This was also the position of Secretary of State Colin L. Powell, who attempted to persuade Bush to reconsider. Alberto R. Gonzales, the White House counsel, subsequently advised Bush in a memo that Taft and Powell were wrong and the Justice Department's analysis was "definitive. Alberto R Gonzales (born August 4 1955) was the 80th Attorney General of the United States. " Gonzales said terrorist attacks "require a new approach in our actions toward captured terrorists," and noted that terrorists had never respected the Geneva Conventions' human rights protections.
Leaving government service
After the re-election of President Bush, resignation of Colin Powell and appointment of Condoleezza Rice as secretary of state, Taft resigned to return to private practice, again at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Condoleezza Rice (born November 14 1954 is the 66th United States Currently he is a visiting professor in international law and diplomacy at Stanford Law School. [3]
On September 12, 2006, Taft co-signed (along with 28 other retired military or defense department officials) a letter to the chairman and ranking member of the Senate Armed Services committee in which he stated his belief that the Bush Administration's attempt to redefine Common Article 3 of the Geneva Convention "poses a grave threat" to U. S. service members.
Taft is said to be one of the sources who told journalists David Corn and Michael Isikoff that former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage was the source syndicated columnist Robert Novak had when he made public the fact that Valerie Wilson worked for the CIA. David Corn is a Liberal American political journalist and author Michael Isikoff (b Syosset New York, 1952 is an Investigative journalist for the United States -based magazine Newsweek. Richard Armitage may refer to Richard Armitage (actor, English actor Richard Armitage (politician, American politician Robert David Sanders "Bob" Novak (born February 26, 1931) is a Conservative American political commentator syndicated columnist and journalist Valerie Wilson may refer to Valerie Elise Plame Wilson usually known as Valerie Plame, CIA operative at the center of a criminal investigation and political In a review of Corn's and Isikoff's book, Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, Novak wrote: "I don't know precisely how Isikoff flushed out Armitage [as Novak's original source], but Hubris clearly points to two sources: Washington lobbyist Kenneth Duberstein, Armitage's political adviser, and William Taft IV, who was the State Department legal adviser when Armitage was deputy secretary. Kenneth M Duberstein (born April 21 1944) served as US President Ronald Reagan 's White House Chief of Staff from 1988 "[4]
Notes
- ^ Julia Taft Obituary
- ^ Lawyer for State Dept. Disputed Detainee Memo
- ^ "William Taft IV to Join Stanford Law School as the Warren Christopher Professor of the Practice of International Law and Diplomacy" Stanford Law School, April 4, 2007
- ^ Novak, Robert, "Who Said What When: The rise and fall of the Valerie Plame 'scandal'", The Weekly Standard, October 16, 2006, book review of Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War, by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, accessed October 8, 2008
External links
- Bio at Fried, Frank, Harris, Schriver & Jacobson LLP
- United States Department of State: US Ambassadors to NATO
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United States Deputy Secretary of Defense 1984–1989 |
Succeeded by Donald J. Atwood, Jr. |
| Preceded by Alton G. The United States Deputy Secretary of Defense is the second-highest ranking official in the United States Department of Defense. Donald Jesse Atwood Jr (May 25 1924 &ndash April 24, 1994 was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense for U Keel, Jr. |
U.S. Ambassador to NATO 1989–1992 |
Succeeded by Reginald Bartholomew |
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