PoliticalGraveyard.com
The Political Graveyard: A Database of American History
Pennsylvania: State Supreme Court


Justices of the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court, 1767-2002 (May be incomplete!)
Thomas Willing as of 1767 George Bryan 1780-91 William Bradford as of 1791-94 Edward Shippen 1791 Thomas Smith 1794-1809 John B. Gibson as of 1816-27 John Tod 1827 John Ross 1830-34 Thomas Burnside 1845-51 George Chambers as of 1851 John B. Gibson as of 1851-53 Walter H. Lowrie as of 1851-57 George Washington Woodward as of 1852-67 James Armstrong as of 1857 William Strong 1857-68 James Thompson 1857 Gaylord Church as of 1858 John M. Read as of 1858-72 Daniel Agnew as of 1863-79 George Sharswood 1868-82 Silas M. Clark 1889-91 Henry Green as of 1889-99 J. Brewster McCollum 1889-1900 James T. Mitchell as of 1889-1903 James P. Sterrett 1889-93 Henry W. Williams as of 1889-96 Christopher Heydrick 1891-92 John Dean 1893-96 Samuel G. Thompson 1893-94 D. Newlin Fell 1894-1910 J. Hay Brown as of 1899-1921 Robert S. Frazer 1915-36 Emory A. Walling 1917-32 John W. Kephart 1919-40 Alexander Simpson, Jr. 1919-35 William I. Schaffer 1921-43 Robert von Moschzisker 1921-30 Sylvester Baker Sadler 1921-31 George W. Maxey 1930-50 James B. Drew 1931-52 William B. Linn 1932-43 H. Edgar Barnes 1935-40 Horace Stern 1936-56 Marion D. Patterson 1940-43 William M. Parker 1940-43 Allen M. Stearne 1943 Charles A. Jones as of 1945-61 John C. Bell, Jr. as of 1950-72 Thomas McKeen Chidsey 1950-58 Michael A. Musmanno as of 1951 Herbert B. Cohen 1957-70 Benjamin R. Jones 1957- Michael J. Eagen 1960- Robert N. C. Nix, Jr. 1971-96 William D. Hutchinson as of 1982-87 John A. Maher 1996 Ron Castille as of 2002

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

  • 1791 Jan 27: George Bryan, died in office.
  • 1809 Mar 31: Thomas Smith, died in office.
  • 1851 Mar 25: Thomas Burnside, died in office.
  • 1857: Joseph J. Lewis (Rep), defeated.
  • 1868: William Strong, resigned.
  • 1891 Nov 21: Silas M. Clark, died in office.
  • 1893 Mar 3: Samuel G. Thompson, appointed.
  • 1916 Nov 7: Emory A. Walling, elected; Charles Palmer, defeated.
  • 1918 Nov 5: John W. Kephart, elected; Alexander Simpson, Jr., elected; Charles B. Lenahan, defeated; Edward J. Fox, defeated; Edwin M. Abbott, defeated; Joseph W. Bouton, defeated; Joseph J. Kintner, defeated; Henry Budd, defeated; Augustus V. Dively, defeated.
  • 1921: Eugene C. Bonniwell (Dem), defeated.
  • 1930 Nov 4: George W. Maxey (Rep), elected; Henry C. Niles (Dem), defeated; John W. Slayton (Socialist), defeated; Charlotte F. Jones (Communist), defeated; Charles Palmer (Prohibition), defeated.
  • 1930 Nov 24: Robert von Moschzisker, resigned; George W. Maxey, appointed.
  • 1931 Mar 1: Sylvester Baker Sadler, died in office.
  • 1931 Sep 28: James B. Drew, appointed.
  • 1932 Apr 26: Edward C. Higbee (Dem), nominated unopposed.
  • 1932 Apr 26: William B. Linn (Rep), nominated unopposed.
  • 1932 Apr 26: Charles Palmer (Prohibition), nominated unopposed.
  • 1932 Apr 26: John W. Slayton (Socialist), nominated unopposed.
  • 1932 Nov 8: William B. Linn (Rep & Liberal), elected; Edward C. Higbee (Dem), defeated; John W. Slayton (Socialist), defeated; Charles Palmer (Prohibition), defeated; Charlotte F. Jones (Communist), defeated.
  • 1935 Jul 24: Alexander Simpson, Jr., died in office.
  • 1935 Aug 12: H. Edgar Barnes, appointed.
  • 1940 Oct 6: H. Edgar Barnes, died in office.
  • 1940 Dec 11: William M. Parker, appointed.
  • 1956 Apr 24: Herbert B. Cohen (Dem), nominated unopposed.
  • 1956 Apr 24: Benjamin R. Jones (Rep), nominated; Henry X. O'Brien (Rep), defeated in primary.
  • 1956 Nov 6: Benjamin R. Jones (Rep), elected; Herbert B. Cohen (Dem), elected.
  • 1958 Apr 19: Thomas McKeen Chidsey, died in office.
  • 1958 Nov 4: Curtis Bok (Dem), elected; Robert E. Woodside (Rep), defeated.
  • 1962 Nov 6: Samuel J. Roberts (Rep), elected; Earl S. Keim (Dem), defeated.
  • "Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
    Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872
    The Political Graveyard

    The Political Graveyard is a web site about U.S. political history and cemeteries. Founded in 1996, it is the Internet's most comprehensive free source for American political biography, listing 320,919 politicians, living and dead.
     
      The coverage of this site includes (1) the President, Vice President, members of Congress, elected state and territorial officeholders in all fifty states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories; and the chief elected official, typically the mayor, of qualifying municipalities; (2) candidates at election, including primaries, for any of the above; (3) all federal judges and all state appellate judges; (4) certain federal officials, including the federal cabinet, diplomatic chiefs of mission, consuls, U.S. district attorneys, collectors of customs and internal revenue, members of major federal commissions; and political appointee (pre-1969) postmasters of qualifying communities; (5) state and national political party officials, including delegates, alternate delegates, and other participants in national party nominating conventions; (6) Americans who served as "honorary" consuls for other nations before 1950. Note: municipalities or communities "qualify", for Political Graveyard purposes, if they have at least half a million person-years of history, inclusive of predecessor, successor, and merged entities.  
      The listings are incomplete; development of the database is a continually ongoing project.  
      Information on this page — and on all other pages of this site — is believed to be accurate, but is not guaranteed. Users are advised to check with other sources before relying on any information here.  
      The official URL for this page is: https://politicalgraveyard.com/geo/PA/ofc/spju.html.  
      Links to this or any other Political Graveyard page are welcome, but specific page addresses may sometimes change as the site develops.  
      If you are searching for a specific named individual, try the alphabetical index of politicians.  
    Copyright notices: (1) Facts are not subject to copyright; see Feist v. Rural Telephone. (2) Politician portraits displayed on this site are 70-pixel-wide monochrome thumbnail images, which I believe to constitute fair use under applicable copyright law. Where possible, each image is linked to its online source. However, requests from owners of copyrighted images to delete them from this site are honored. (3) Original material, programming, selection and arrangement are © 1996-2023 Lawrence Kestenbaum. (4) This work is also licensed for free non-commercial re-use, with attribution, under a Creative Commons License.
    Site information: The Political Graveyard is created and maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, who is solely responsible for its structure and content. — The mailing address is The Political Graveyard, P.O. Box 2563, Ann Arbor MI 48106. — This site is hosted by HDL. — The Political Graveyard opened on July 1, 1996; the last full revision was done on March 8, 2023.

    Creative 
Commons License Follow polgraveyard on Twitter [Amazon.com]