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U.S. Supreme Court
Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-2003 (may be
incomplete!)
John
Jay 1789-95
John
Rutledge 1795
Oliver
Ellsworth 1796-1800
John
Marshall 1801-35
Roger
B. Taney 1836-64
Salmon
P. Chase 1864-73
Morrison
R. Waite 1874-88
Melville
W. Fuller 1888-1910
Edward
Douglass White 1910-21
William
H. Taft 1921-30
Charles
Evans Hughes 1930-41
Harlan
F. Stone 1941-46
Fred
M. Vinson 1946-53
Earl
Warren 1953-69
Warren
E. Burger 1969-86
William
H. Rehnquist 1986-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
Associate Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court, 1789-2006
(may be incomplete!)
William
Cushing 1789-1810
John
Rutledge 1789-91
James
Wilson 1789-98
John
Blair 1789-95
James
Iredell 1790-99
Thomas
Johnson 1791-93
William
Paterson 1793-1806
Samuel
Chase 1796-1811
Bushrod
Washington 1798-1829
Alfred
Moore 1799-1804
William
Johnson 1804-34
Brockholst
Livingston 1806-23
Thomas
Todd 1807-26
Gabriel
Duvall 1811-35
Joseph
Story 1811-45
Smith
Thompson 1823-43
Robert
Trimble 1826-28
John
McLean 1830-61
Henry
Baldwin 1830-44
James
M. Wayne 1835-67
Philip
Pendleton Barbour 1836-41
John
Catron 1837-65
John
McKinley 1837-52
Peter
Vivian Daniel 1841-60
Samuel
Nelson 1845-72
Levi
Woodbury 1845-51
Robert
Cooper Grier 1846-70
Benjamin
R. Curtis 1851-57
John
Archibald Campbell 1853-61
Nathan
Clifford 1858-81
David
Davis 1862-77
Samuel
Freeman Miller 1862-90
Noah
H. Swayne 1862-81
Stephen
J. Field 1863-97
William
Strong 1870-80
Joseph
P. Bradley 1870-92
Ward
Hunt 1872-82
John
Marshall Harlan 1877-1911
William
Burnham Woods 1880-87
Horace
Gray 1881-1902
Stanley
Matthews 1881-89
Samuel
M. Blatchford 1882-93
Lucius
Q. C. Lamar 1888-93
David
Josiah Brewer 1889-1910
Henry
B. Brown 1890-1906
George
Shiras, Jr. 1892-1903
Howell
Edmunds Jackson 1893-95
Edward
Douglass White 1894-1910
Rufus
W. Peckham 1895-1909
Joseph
McKenna 1898-1925
Oliver
Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1902-32
William
Rufus Day 1903-22
William
H. Moody 1906-10
Horace
Harmon Lurton 1910-14
Willis
Van Devanter 1910-37
Charles
Evans Hughes 1910-16
Joseph
R. Lamar 1911-16
Mahlon
Pitney 1912-22
James
C. McReynolds 1914-41
Louis
D. Brandeis 1916-39
John
H. Clarke 1916-22
George
Sutherland 1922-38
Pierce
Butler 1922-39
Edward
Terry Sanford 1923-30
Harlan
F. Stone 1925-41
Owen
J. Roberts 1930-45
Benjamin
N. Cardozo 1932-38
Hugo
L. Black 1937-71
Stanley
F. Reed 1938-57
William
O. Douglas 1939-75
Felix
Frankfurter 1939-62
Frank
Murphy 1940-49
Robert
H. Jackson 1941-54
James
F. Byrnes 1941-42
Wiley
Blount Rutledge 1943-49
Harold
H. Burton 1945-58
Tom
C. Clark 1949-67
Sherman
Minton 1949-56
John
Marshall Harlan 1955-71
William
J. Brennan, Jr. 1956-90
Charles
Evans Whittaker 1957-62
Potter
Stewart 1958-81
Arthur
J. Goldberg 1962-65
Byron
R. White 1962-93
Abe
Fortas 1965-69
Thurgood
Marshall 1967-91
Harry
A. Blackmun 1970-94
Lewis
F. Powell, Jr. 1972-87
William
H. Rehnquist 1972-86
John
Paul Stevens 1975-
Sandra
Day O'Connor 1981-2006
Antonin
Scalia 1986-
Anthony
M. Kennedy 1988-
David
H. Souter 1990-
Clarence
Thomas 1991-
Ruth
Bader Ginsburg 1993-
Stephen
G. Breyer 1994-
Officeholding Events (may be incomplete!)
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