Ohio Republican Party

The Ohio Republican Party is the Ohio affiliate of the Republican Party. It was founded in Columbus, Ohio, in 1854.^[1]

Ohio Republican Party

Alex Triantafilou

February 13, 1854 (1854-02-13)

211 South Fifth Street Columbus, Ohio 43215

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It currently holds the bulk of the state's political power, controlling the majority of Ohio's U.S. House seats, one of its two U.S. Senate seats, the governorship, supermajorities in both houses of the state legislature, and a majority on the Ohio Supreme Court.

Taft family political power[edit]

The Taft family has been one of the most powerful political families in American history. Robert Taft, Sr. was the first Taft to come to America, around the 1670s. The Ohio section of Taft's are descendants of Robert, Sr.

The start of the five generations of Taft's in politics was with Alphonso Taft. He was the founder of the Ohio political dynasty that is associated with the Republican Party. Alphonso was in President Ulysses S. Grant's Cabinet, first as Attorney General then as Secretary of War. He was later appointed US Ambassador to the Austria-Hungary Empire.^[8]

Three of Alphonso's sons entered into politics also, former US Representative of Ohio's 1st District Charles Phelps Taft, former US president and Chief Justice of the United States William Howard Taft, and former Republican Party Delegate Henry Waters Taft.

Both of William H. Taft's sons entered into politics. Robert A. Taft was a former US Senator and his other son Charles Phelps Taft II was former Mayor of Cincinnati. Both men were seen as great politicians.

The next generation of Taft politicians came from two of Robert's children. Robert Taft, Jr. served in both houses of the US Congress. His brother William Howard Taft III was Ambassador to Ireland.

The current generation of Tafts in politics are former Ohio Governor Bob Taft, son of Robert Taft Jr. William Howard Taft IV, son of William H. Taft III, has been an Ambassador to NATO and United States Deputy Secretary of Defense.

J. D. Vance

: US Senator, Governor of Ohio, United States Secretary of the Treasury, Chief Justice of the United States

Salmon P. Chase

: US representative, Governor of Ohio, United States Secretary of the Treasury

Charles William Foster, Jr.

: US representative, Governor of Ohio, President of the United States

Rutherford B. Hayes

: US Representative, Governor of Ohio, President of the United States

William McKinley

: Governor of Ohio, United States Postmaster General

William Dennison

: Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to Brazil

David Tod

: Governor of Ohio, United States Secretary of the Interior

Jacob Dolson Cox

: Ohio Attorney General, Governor of Ohio, US Senator, Republican nominee for Vice President of the United States

John W. Bricker

: Governor of Ohio, Ambassador to France

Edward F. Noyes

: Governor of Ohio, US Representative

Thomas L. Young

: Governor of Ohio, US Senator

Joseph B. Foraker

: Ohio Attorney General, Governor of Ohio

George K. Nash

: Governor of Ohio, US Representative, US Senator

Frank B. Willis

: Ohio Attorney General, Governor of Ohio, Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court

C. William O'Neill

: mayor of Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State Auditor, Governor of Ohio, candidate for Republican nomination for President of the United States (1964, 1968), candidate for Republican nomination to the US Senate

James A. Rhodes

: US senator, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, President of the United States

Warren G. Harding

: US Senator, a Radical Republican, President Pro Tempore of the United States Senate

Benjamin F. Wade

: US Representative, President of the United States

James A. Garfield

: United States Secretary of the Interior

James Rudolph Garfield

: commander of Union forces in the Civil War; President of the United States

Ulysses S. Grant

: US Senator, President of the United States

Benjamin Harrison

: United States Secretary of War, President of the United States, Chief Justice of the United States

William H. Taft I

: US Senator, US attorney general, ambassador to India

William B. Saxbe

: US representative, United States Secretary of the Treasury, US Senator, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, United States Secretary of State, author of the Sherman Antitrust Act

John Sherman

: Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, US Senator, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, candidate for Republican nomination for President of the United States (1940, 1948, 1952)

Robert A. Taft I

: Ohio State Representative, mayor of Cleveland, US Senator, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Harold H. Burton

: US Representative, US Senator

Simeon D. Fess

: Speaker of the US House of Representatives

Nicholas Longworth

: Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court

Potter Stewart

: US Senator, Chief Justice of the Ohio Supreme Court

Kingsley A. Taft

: Governor of Ohio

Bob Taft

: US Senator, Governor of Ohio, Lieutenant Governor of Ohio, Mayor of Cleveland

George Voinovich

Party symbols[edit]

Ohio Republicans use the same symbols used by the national Republican Party, such as the elephant. The Ohio Republican Party logo features a white elephant silhouette over the shape of Ohio in red, with blue outlining its northern border.

Political party strength in Ohio

Politics of Ohio

List of United States representatives from Ohio

Joseph P. Smith, History Of The Republican Party In Ohio: And Memoirs of Its Representative Supporters, In Two Imperial Quarto Volumes. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1898. | Vol. II

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