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SCOTUS trivia

Only one U.S. President has also served as a Supreme Court justice. Who was it?

a) Grover Cleveland
b) Franklin Delano Roosevelt
c) Woodrow Wilson
d) William Howard Taft

The correct answer: (d) William Howard Taft. President Taft was the twenty-seventh U.S. president, serving from 1909 to 1913, and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States, serving in that role from 1921 to 1930. Taft was nominated to the court by President Warren Harding (R) on June 30, 1921, and received his judicial commission on the same day.