Ethics in Service (Esprios Classics)

William Howard Taft (September 15 1857 - March 8 1930) was the 27th president of the United States (1909-1913) and the tenth Chief Justice of the United States (1921-1930) the only person to have held both offices. Taft was elected president in 1908 the chosen successor of Theodore Roosevelt but was defeated for re-election by Woodrow Wilson in 1912 after Roosevelt split the Republican vote by running as a third-party candidate. In 1921 President Warren G. Harding appointed Taft to be chief justice a position in which he served until a month before his death.