Of course, it helped that Taft hadn’t wanted to be president in the first place. He wanted to be the chief justice. Taft’s father, Alphonso, was America’s attorney general, and he instilled ...

“Mrs. Justice Holmes died on Tuesday night,” the Supreme Court’s Chief Justice, William Howard Taft, reported on May 5, 1929. Mr. Justice Holmes—Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.—had relied on ...

A close runner-up is the Taft Court in 1923. I count five members with facial hair. Chief Justice Taft gave Justice Holmes a run for his mustache. The Taft Court (1923-1925). Seated, from left to ...

But consider: Cincinnati-born William Howard Taft was the 27th president of the United States and the 10th chief justice, the only person to hold both positions. Yet he is more likely to be ...

The only other justice to lie in state was William Howard Taft, who served as president before serving on the court as the chief justice. If the body is to lay in repose, family members determine ...