Robert Alphonso Taft (September 8, 1889 – July 31, 1953), of the Taft political family of Cincinnati, in OTL was a Republican United States Senator and a prominent conservative statesman. As the leading opponent of the New Deal in the Senate from 1939 to 1953, he led the successful effort by the conservative coalition to curb the power of labor unions, and was a major proponent of the foreign policy of non-interventionism. However, he failed in his quest to win the presidential nomination of the Republican Party in 1940, 1948 and 1952. From 1940 to 1952 he battled New York Governor Thomas E. Dewey, the leader of the GOP's moderate "Eastern Establishment" for control of the Republican Party. In 1957, a Senate committee chaired by John F. Kennedy named Taft as one of the five greatest senators in American history, along with Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, and Robert La Folette.
Alternate versions of Taft have been discovered in the multiverse:
- Robert Taft, Senator from Ohio (Election 1952)
- Robert Taft, 34th President Of The United States (The Old Right Victorious)