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James K. Polk vs William Howard Taft: height compared
Drawn to a common scale from sourced heights.
- William Howard Taft: 182 cm (6′0″). James K. Polk: 173 cm (5′8″).
- William Howard Taft is about 9 cm (3.5 in) taller than James K. Polk.
- William Howard Taft is 1.05x the height of James K. Polk.
Both heights are as recorded on Wikidata (CC0), retrieved ; recorded heights of real people are approximate, so treat differences of a centimeter or two as noise.
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