Supreme Court Trivia

Birth, Death, and Tenure

Which two justices died on the same day?

Retired chief justice William Howard Taft and Justice Edward Sanford each died on March 8, 1930. Taft died of heart failure while Sanford died unexpectedly of uremic poisoning.

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