No president embodied this philosophy more than William Howard Taft. Of course, it helped that Taft hadn’t wanted to be president in the first place. He wanted to be the chief justice.

William Howard Taft, the only man to serve as President of the United States and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, once observed that the court was his idea of what Heaven must be like.

William Howard Taft served as President of the United States from 1909 to 1913. Nine years after leaving office, Taft finally achieved his dream and became the Tenth Chief Justice of the United ...

Jared Cohen talks to Fox News Digital about William Howard Taft's time as chief justice of the Supreme Court — and what he can teach the nation New York-based Jared Cohen, bestselling author of ...

The Taft Court (1923-1925). Seated, from left to right: Justices Willis Van Devanter, Joseph McKenna, Chief Justice William Howard Taft, and Justices Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and James C.

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 ...

“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 ...

If wise men think that William Howard Taft, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is seriously ill, they are mistaken. At Murray Bay, Quebec, Mr. Taft laughed, denied emphatically any such rumor ...

Perhaps the most lasting moment of William Howard Taft's U.S. presidency took place ... preferring his later position as chief justice of the United States: "I don't remember that I was ever ...