William Howard Taft served as both President and Chief Justice of the United States. He was a lawyer and became the youngest US Attorney General at age 32. Some Supreme Court justices lacked legal training, and Harvard Law School has produced the most justices. William Orville Douglas was the longest-serving justice.
William Howard Taft is the only person to have served as both President of the United States and a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Taft was president from 1909 to 1913, then Chief Justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930, until he resigned due to ill health. A lawyer by profession, Taft had wanted to be a Supreme Court justice long before he became president, and had even been nominated several times by President Theodore Roosevelt as a Supreme Court justice, but each time he had to decline the appointment due to other responsibilities policies. Taft also became the youngest United States Attorney General at age 32 and later served as acting Attorney General.
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There have been at least five US Supreme Court justices who lacked college-level legal training, including Samuel Chase, a signer of the Declaration of Independence; and James F. Byrnes, who served as a justice on the Supreme Court from 1941 to 1942 and is one of the few US politicians to have been active in state government and in all three branches of the federal government.
Harvard Law School has produced the majority of US Supreme Court justices, with 17 justices being Harvard alumni. Yale Law School and Columbia Law School are the only other two law schools to have produced more than four Supreme Court justices.
The longest serving Supreme Court justice was William Orville Douglas, who served from 1939 to 1975.
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