William Howard Taft
› William
Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) served as the 27th President
of the United States (1909–1913) and as the tenth Chief Justice of the United
States (1921–1930), the only 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 position in which he
served until a month before his death.
