Use an Affidavit if: 1  You have been asked to make a declaration or statement of fact under oath as part of a contract or legal process. 2  You want to ask someone else to make a declaration or statement of fact under oath.
Did President William Howard Taft die in a bathtub? No, President William Howard Taft did not die in a bathtub. He died of natural causes in his sleep at his home in Washington D.C. on March 8, 1930. Taft, the 27th President, â¦was the largest President, weighing an official 332 pounds.
But Taft much preferred law to politics. He was appointed a Federal circuit judge at 34. He aspired to be a member of the Supreme Court, but his wife, Helen Herron Taft, held other ambitions for him. His route to the White House was via administrative posts. President McKinley sent him to the Philippines in 1900 as chief civil administrator.