FARGO, N.D. (Valley News Live) - Next is “Big Bill” - William Howard Taft. Before becoming the 27th president - Taft aspired to be a Supreme Court Justice. His first step toward this goal was ...

The site once served as the home in which former president and Supreme Court chief justice William Howard Taft grew up.

Almost exactly a century ago, in February 1925, Chief Justice William Howard Taft persuaded Congress to grant the Supreme Court an extraordinary power: to pick which cases it would decide.

William Howard Taft served as the 27th U.S president and commander in chief from 1909 to 1913, but he is also regarded as the father of the modern U.S. Supreme Court for his leadership as chief ...

Like many others, eight men over 60, and one younger, have worked, played, thought this summer. Last week they met again at Washington for the first autumn sitting of the U. S. Supreme Court. Eight ...

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 associated with the ...

SWARTSELL: Taft is the only person in U.S. history to serve as both president and Supreme Court chief justice. But in 1884, he was just a fledging attorney trying an estate case over $410 before ...

The body of William Howard Taft rested in an Arlington grave today while the nation went about its work again with only ... justices of the supreme court and the other high officials of the ...

The site once served as the home in which former president and Supreme Court chief justice William Howard Taft grew up. Protesters say they showed up to voice support for the United States ...