President William Howard Taft is my 14th cousin 2 x removed. The ancestor who connects both of us together in my genealogical tree is Joan Plantagenet Beaufort , Countess (1379 – 1440), my 13th great grandmother.
William Howard Taft was born on September 15, 1857 and died on March 8, 1930. He had been the 27th president associated with United States (1909–1913) as well as the tenth chief justice associated with United States (1921–1930), the sole person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908, the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt, but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921, President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice, a posture by which he served until four weeks before his death.
This is the genealogical chart the shows how William Howard Taft and I connect to Joan Plantagenet Beaufort , Countess (1379 – 1440), my 13th great grandmother:
President William Howard Taft (1857 – 1930)
14th cousin 2x removed
Alphonso Taft (1810 – 1891)
Father of President William Howard Taft
Peter Rawson Taft
Father of Alphonso Taft
Rhoda Rawson (1749 – 1827)
Mother of Peter Rawson Taft
Abner Rawson (1721 – 1794)
Father of Rhoda Rawson
Edmund Rawson
Father of Abner Rawson
Susanna WILSON
Mother of Edmund Rawson
John WILSON (1621 – 1691)
Father of Susanna WILSON
Elizabeth Mansfield (1595 – 1658)
Mother of John WILSON
Sir John Mansfield (1572 – 1610)
Father of Elizabeth Mansfield
Anne de Eure (1536 – 1566)
Mother of Sir John Mansfield
Sir Ralph Eure
Father of Anne de Eure
William Eure
Father of Sir Ralph Eure
Ralph Eure (1453 – 1539)
Father of William Eure
William Sir (Hoare ) Eure (1440 – 1484)
Father of Ralph Eure
Eleanor Eleanore de Greystoke (1416 – 1468)
Mother of William Sir (Hoare ) Eure
Elizabeth de Ferrers (1395 – 1434)
Mother of Eleanor Eleanore de Greystoke
Joan Plantagenet Beaufort , Countess (1379 – 1440)
Mother of Elizabeth de Ferrers