Why was Robert Taft so powerful, who was he, conection to his dad, who was his dad?

Taft was the son of President William Howard Taft and the grandson of Attorney General Alphonso Taft. As a US Senator, Robert Taft may arguably be more influential than either of his ancestors. He led the conservative wing of the Republican Party throughout the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the leading isolationist, pro-business, and anti-New Dealer of his time. Taft is known as the founder of Modern Republican Conservatism. Taft got a late start in politics, going into the US Senate when he was about 50 years old, where he quickly worked with conservative Republicans and Southern Democrats to protest much of the New Deal. Taft died in office in 1953. His son Robert Taft, Jr. later became a US Senator, and his grandson, Bob Taft (Robert Taft III), was a rather liberal Republican governor of Ohio from 1999 to 2007. Taft was a presidential candidate in three elections. He first ran for president in 1940, as a first term senator. Despite this, he came in second in the ballot at the convention. In 1948, Taft came in second once again for the Republican nomination. In his last attempt for the presidency, Taft bested Eisenhower in the 1952 Republican primaries, but was defeated at the Convention when a rule change shifted enough delegates to Eisenhower to ensure the World War II general was the nominee.

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i think its the outcome of people's preferences.