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.
Taft retired from the Court on February 3, 1930, due to ill health, and he died the next month. The Great Depression was just beginning to take its toll, and the conservatives brought to the Court by Taft would soon oppose at every turn the policies of the New Deal under President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.