The White and Taft Courts
History of the Court: The Taft Court, 1921-1930
When Chief Justice White died in 1921, President Harding made William H. Taft Chief Justice, the only former Chief Executive ever to hold the highest judicial ...
The Taft Court refers to the Supreme Court of the United States from 1921 to 1930, when William Howard Taft served as Chief Justice of the United States.
William Howard Taft Court (1921-1930)
In 1922, the Taft Court ruled that professional baseball falls outside the Sherman Antitrust Act, which restricts anti-competitive actions by businesses. The ...
History of the Court: The White Court, 1910-1921
Oregon before the Supreme Court in 1908, but the New York Times thought the Court no place for “a striver after changes.” William Howard Taft and Joseph H.
Edward Douglass White Court (1910-1921)
White served as Chief Justice until he died on May 19, 1921 and was succeeded by former President Taft. The Supreme Court saw frequent changes in membership ...
The White Court lasted from December 1910 until May 1921, during the presidencies of William Howard Taft (R) and Woodrow Wilson (D).
9 White and Taft Courts,1910-1930 - Oxford Academic
Abstract. William Howard Taft, the only man who was both President and Chief Justice, once said that the Supreme Court was his notion of ...
Taft Court; White Court; Fuller Court; Waite Court; Chase Court; Taney Court; Marshall Court; Ellsworth Court; Rutledge Court; Jay Court. Taft Court (1930).
William Howard Taft | The White House
But Taft much preferred law to politics. He was appointed a Federal circuit judge at 34. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen ...
List of United States Supreme Court cases by the Taft Court
This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the Taft Court, the tenure of Chief Justice William Howard ...
William Howard Taft's truly historic 'double-double'
Later, the New York Times noted that Taft had a busy time as President nominating Supreme Court Justices. “He made six appointments in a court ...
Taft served as the head of two branches of government, as President of the United States from 1909 to 1913, and chief justice of the Supreme Court from 1921 to ...
The Architect of Our Divided Supreme Court | The New Yorker
A hundred years ago, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made the Court more efficient and more powerful. His interventions marked a turning point whose effects ...
William Howard Taft - White House Historical Association
But Taft much preferred law to politics. He was appointed a federal circuit judge at 34. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen ...
Chapter 5: The White and Taft Courts, 1911–30 in - Elgaronline
Describes shift for black American from the abysmal Fuller Court to the moderately protective White Court (1911–21).
The Judicial Conference: A Century of Service to the Federal Judiciary
Chief Justice William Howard Taft is in the first row, second from right. Credit: Library of Congress.
About this Collection | William H. Taft Papers - Library of Congress
The papers of William Howard Taft (1857-1930), twenty-seventh president of the United States and tenth chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, consist of ...
Justices 1789 to Present - Supreme Court
White, Edward Douglass, Louisiana, Cleveland, March 12, 1894, December 18, 1910 ... Taft, January 3, 1910, July 12, 1914. Hughes, Charles Evans, New York, Taft ...
By the time he was 30, he had been appointed to the Ohio Superior Court. He remained there three years when President Benjamin Harrison appointed Taft as his ...
Political Entrepreneurship and the Reforms of William Howard Taft
When, after a rela- tively short tenure on the bench, Taft resigned from the Court in 1930, the federal courts, the Supreme. Court, and the Chief Justice were ...