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Bob Taft was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He is an American Republican Party politician. He was elected to two terms of office as the 67th Governor of the U.S. state of Ohio between 1999 and 2007. After leaving office, Taft started working for the University of Dayton beginning August 15, 2007. He attended Yale University, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union, and graduated with a B.A. in government in 1963. He later attended the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, receiving an M.A., again in government, in 1967. In 1976, he received his Juris Doctor from the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Taft was elected as a Republican to the Ohio House of Representatives from 1976 to 1981, and then was Hamilton County commissioner from 1981 to 1990.