Answer: 1935 — the 146th year of the Court’s existence. Chief Justice William Howard Taft, the only person ever to serve as both president and chief justice, persuaded Congress in 1929 to fund a permanent home, arguing the judiciary needed its own seat to stand as a truly coequal, independent branch, and he commissioned architect Cass Gilbert. Neither Taft (who died in 1930) nor Gilbert (who died in 1934) lived to see it completed under Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Read more here.
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