The Political Graveyard: Massachusetts: Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court

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Massachusetts: Chief Justices of the Supreme Judicial Court

Index of Politicians by Office Held or Sought

Chief Justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, 1782-1938 (May be incomplete!)
William Cushing 1782-89 Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent 1790-91 Francis Dana 1791-1806 Theophilus Parsons 1806-13 Samuel Sewall 1814 Isaac Parker 1814-30 Lemuel Shaw 1830-60 George Tyler Bigelow 1860-68 Reuben Atwater Chapman 1868-73 Horace Gray 1873-81 Marcus Morton 1882-90 Walbridge Abner Field 1890-99 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1899-1902 Marcus Perrin Knowlton 1902-11 Arthur Prentice Rugg 1911-38

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