Jimmy Carter was the only full-term president who did not have the opportunity to appoint a supreme court justice.
The first (and so far only) US President to have also served as a Justice of the Supreme Court was William Howard Taft, who was appointed Chief Justice by Warren Harding.
William Howard Taft
Andrew Jackson was a justice of the Tennessee Superior Court before he was President. William Howard Taft was a federal circuit judge before he was president and was appointe to the US Supreme Court after the presidency.
Jimmy Carter did not have the opportunity to nominate anyone for the supreme court,
Jimmy Carter, who was in office from 1977-1981, never had an opportunity to nominate a US Supreme Court justice.
Yes. Surprisingly, only one US Supreme Court justice has been from Texas: Justice Tom C. Clark, who was appointed by President Truman and served on the Court from 1949-1967.
None. William Howard Taft served both as President and Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, but he was President first, from 1909-1913. President Warren G. Harding later nominated Taft as Chief Justice of the United States (Supreme Court), where he served from 1921-1930.Charles Evans Hughes resigned from the Supreme Court to run for President in 1916, but he was not Chief Justice and he was not elected President. He later returned to the supreme court as the Chief Justice.For more information, see Related Questions, below.
William Howard Taft was US President from 1909-1913, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court from 1921-1930.
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After being appointed by President Warren G. Harding, former President William Howard Taft served as Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court from 1921-1930.
President Garfield appointed only one US Supreme Court justice, Stanley Matthews, who served from 1881-1889.