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July 11, 1921: President Taft is sworn in as chief justice

Wednesday 11 July 2012

President Harding nominated former President Taft for the position of chief justice of the Supreme Court after the death of Chief Justice Edward Douglass White. Taft was the president from 1909 to 1913 and is the only person to have held the position of both president of the United States and chief justice of the Supreme Court.

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