Chief Justice White died in 1921. President Harding appointed ex-President Taft to fill the vacancy. Then Justice Clarke of Ohio retired. George Sutherland of Utah replaced him. Justice Day of Ohio retired soon after that. The Catholic Church, left without a member on the bench since Chief Justice White's death, clamored for a Catholic. The Eastern hierarchy wanted young Martin Manton of New York. But Taft and old George W. Wickersham plugged for another Catholic (who also was a Democrat, most Catholics being Democrats), one from the Northwest. So, Pierce Butler of Minnesota...
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