William Howard Taft declined at least five offers of appointment to the Supreme Court of the United States.
 Taft was appalled when, after Justice Lamar's death in January 1916, Wilson nominated Brandeis, whom the former president had never forgiven for his role in the BallingerPinchot affair
In 1887, Taft, then aged 29, was appointed to a vacancy on the Superior Court of Cincinnati by Governor Joseph B

