Samuel Taft

Samuel Taft was born September 23, 1735 at Upton, Worcester County, Massachusetts, and died in 1816 at Uxbridge Worcester County, Massachusetts, in his 80th year. He was a Revolutionary War soldier who later hosted his former commander in Chief, President George Washington, on his innuagural tour of New England.

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Famous quotes containing the word taft:

    We shall have to begin all over again. [Taft hoped that] the Senators might change their minds, or that the people might change the Senate; instead of which they changed me.
    —William Howard Taft (1857–1930)