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William Howard TaftBorn: 9/15/1857Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio William Howard Taft was born in Cincinnati on Sept. 15, 1857. A Yale graduate, he entered Ohio Republican politics in the 1880s…Taft, Robert Alphonso
(Encyclopedia) Taft, Robert Alphonso, 1889–1953, American politician, b. Cincinnati, Ohio; son of William Howard Taft. He practiced law in Ohio and served (1921–26, 1931–32) in the state legislature…Taft, William Howard
(Encyclopedia) Taft, William Howard, 1857–1930, 27th President of the United States (1909–13) and 10th chief justice of the United States (1921–30), b. Cincinnati. Taft retired from public life…Helen
(Encyclopedia) Helen, in Greek mythology, the most beautiful of women; daughter of Leda and Zeus, and sister of Castor and Pollux and Clytemnestra. While still a young girl Helen was abducted to…Moody, Helen Wills
(Encyclopedia) Moody, Helen Wills: see Wills, Helen Newington.Menelaus
(Encyclopedia) MenelausMenelausmĕnəlāˈəs [key], in Greek mythology, king of Sparta, son of Atreus. He was the husband of Helen, father of Hermione, and younger brother of Agamemnon. When Paris,…Hermione
(Encyclopedia) HermioneHermionehərmīˈənē [key], in Greek mythology, the only daughter of Helen and Menelaus. When Helen eloped with Paris, Hermione was abandoned to the care of Clytemnestra. She…Ballinger, Richard Achilles
(Encyclopedia) Ballinger, Richard AchillesBallinger, Richard Achillesbălˈĭnjər [key], 1858–1922, U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1909–11), b. Boonesboro (now in Boone), Iowa. He was mayor of Seattle…Keller, Helen Adams
(Encyclopedia) Keller, Helen Adams, 1880–1968, American author and lecturer, blind and deaf from an undiagnosed illness at the age of two, b. Tuscumbia, Ala. In 1887 she was put under the charge of…Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power)
(Encyclopedia) Whitman, Sarah Helen (Power), 1803–78, American poet, b. Providence, R.I. In 1828 she married a Boston lawyer, John W. Whitman; after his death (1833) she returned to Providence and…Trending
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