[United States Senate Manual, 107th Congress]
[S. Doc. 107-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Pages 1143-1144]
[From the U.S. Government Printing Office, www.gpo.gov]
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1450
JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1789 TO 2000 \1\
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Years
Name \2\ State whence appointed Date of commission Date service of
\3\ terminated service
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chief justices
1. John Jay...................... New York................ Sept. 26, 1789 June 29, 1795 5
2. John Rutledge \4\............. South Carolina.......... July 1, 1795 Dec. 15, 1795 (\5\)
3. Oliver Ellsworth.............. Connecticut............. Mar. 4, 1796 Dec. 15, 1800 4
4. John Marshall................. Virginia................ Jan. 31, 1801 July 6, 1835 34
5. Roger Brooke Taney............ Maryland................ Mar. 15, 1836 Oct. 12, 1864 28
6. Salmon Portland Chase......... Ohio.................... Dec. 6, 1864 May 7, 1873 8
7. Morrison Remick Waite......... ....do.................. Jan. 21, 1874 Mar. 23, 1888 14
8. Melville Weston Fuller........ Illinois................ July 20, 1888 July 4, 1910 21
9. Edward Douglas White.......... Louisiana............... Dec. 12, 1910 May 19, 1921 \5\ 10
10. William Howard Taft........... Connecticut............. June 30, 1921 Feb. 3, 1930 8
11. Charles Evans Hughes.......... New York................ Feb. 13, 1930 June 30, 1941 \5\ 11
12. Harlan Fiske Stone............ ......do................ July 3, 1941 Apr. 22, 1946 \5\ 4
13. Fred Moore Vinson............. Kentucky................ June 21, 1946 Sept. 8, 1953 7
14. Earl Warren................... California.............. Oct. 2, 1953 June 23, 1969 15
15. Warren E. Burger.............. Virginia................ June 23, 1969 Sept. 26, 1986 17
16. William Hubbs Rehnquist....... Virginia................ Sept. 25, 1986 ................... (\5\)
associate justices
1. John Rutledge................. South Carolina.......... Sept. 26, 1789 Mar. 5, 1791 1
2. William Cushing............... Massachusetts........... Sept. 27, 1789 Sept. 13, 1810 20
3. James Wilson.................. Pennsylvania............ Sept. 29, 1789 Aug. 21, 1798 8
4. John Blair.................... Virginia................ Sept. 30, 1789 Jan. 27, 1796 5
5. James Iredell................. North Carolina.......... Feb. 10, 1790 Oct. 20, 1799 9
6. Thomas Johnson................ Maryland................ Nov. 7, 1791 Feb. 1, 1793 1
7. William Paterson.............. New Jersey.............. Mar. 4, 1793 Sept. 9, 1806 13
8. Samuel Chase.................. Maryland................ Jan. 27, 1796 June 19, 1811 15
9. Bushrod Washington............ Virginia................ Dec. 20, 1798 Nov. 26, 1829 30
10. Alfred Moore.................. North Carolina.......... Dec. 10, 1799 Jan. 26, 1804 3
11. William Johnson............... South Carolina.......... Mar. 26, 1804 Aug. 4, 1834 30
12. Henry B. Livingston........... New York................ Nov. 10, 1806 Mar. 18, 1823 16
13. Thomas Todd................... Kentucky................ Mar. 3, 1807 Feb. 7, 1826 18
14. Gabriel Duvall................ Maryland................ Nov. 18, 1811 Jan. 14, 1835 23
15. Joseph Story.................. Massachusetts........... ......do Sept. 10, 1845 33
16. Smith Thompson................ New York................ Dec. 9, 1823 Dec. 18, 1843 20
17. Robert Trimble................ Kentucky................ May 9, 1826 Aug. 25, 1828 2
18. John McLean................... Ohio.................... Mar. 7, 1829 Apr. 4, 1861 31
19. Henry Baldwin................. Pennsylvania............ Jan. 6, 1830 Apr. 21, 1844 14
20. James Moore Wayne............. Georgia................. Jan. 9, 1835 July 5, 1867 32
21. Philip Pendleton Barbour...... Virginia................ Mar. 15, 1836 Feb. 25, 1841 4
22. John Catron................... Tennessee............... Mar. 8, 1837 May 30, 1865 28
23. John McKinley................. Alabama................. Sept. 25, 1837 July 19, 1852 14
24. Peter Vivian Daniel........... Virginia................ Mar. 3, 1841 May 31, 1860 18
25. Samuel Nelson................. New York................ Feb. 13, 1845 Nov. 28, 1872 27
26. Levi Woodbury................. New Hampshire........... Sept. 20, 1845 Sept. 4, 1851 5
27. Robert Cooper Grier........... Pennsylvania............ Aug. 4, 1846 Jan. 31, 1870 23
28. Benjamin Robbins Curtis....... Massachusetts........... Sept. 22, 1851 Sept. 30, 1857 6
29. John Archibald Campbell....... Alabama................. Mar. 22, 1853 Apr. 30, 1861 8
30. Nathan Clifford............... Maine................... Jan. 12, 1858 July 25, 1881 23
31. Noah Haynes Swayne............ Ohio.................... Jan. 24, 1862 Jan. 24, 1881 18
32. Samuel Freeman Miller......... Iowa.................... July 16, 1862 Oct. 13, 1890 28
33. David Davis................... Illinois................ Dec. 8, 1862 Mar. 4, 1877 14
34. Stephen Johnson Field......... California.............. Mar. 10, 1863 Dec. 1, 1897 34
35. William Strong................ Pennsylvania............ Feb. 18, 1870 Dec. 14, 1880 10
36. Joseph P. Bradley............. New Jersey.............. Mar. 21, 1870 Jan. 22, 1892 21
37. Ward Hunt..................... New York................ Dec. 11, 1872 Jan. 27, 1882 9
38. John Marshall Harlan.......... Kentucky................ Nov. 29, 1877 Oct. 14, 1911 33
39. William Burnham Woods......... Georgia................. Dec. 21, 1880 May 14, 1887 6
40. Stanley Matthews.............. Ohio.................... May 12, 1881 Mar. 22, 1889 7
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41. Horace Gray................... Massachusetts........... Dec. 20, 1881 Sept. 15, 1902 20
42. Samuel Blatchford............. New York................ Mar. 22, 1882 July 7, 1893 11
43. Lucius Quintus C. Lamar....... Mississippi............. Jan. 16, 1888 Jan. 23, 1893 5
44. David Josiah Brewer........... Kansas.................. Dec. 18, 1889 Mar. 28, 1910 20
45. Henry Billings Brown.......... Michigan................ Dec. 29, 1890 May 28, 1906 15
46. George Shiras, Jr............. Pennsylvania............ July 26, 1892 Feb. 23, 1903 10
47. Howell Edmunds Jackson........ Tennessee............... Feb. 18, 1893 Aug. 8, 1895 2
48. Edward Douglas White.......... Louisiana............... Feb. 19, 1894 Dec. 18, 1910 16
49. Rufus Wheeler Peckham......... New York................ Dec. 9, 1895 Oct. 24, 1909 13
50. Joseph McKenna................ California.............. Jan. 21, 1898 Jan. 5, 1925 26
51. Oliver Wendell Holmes......... Massachusetts........... Dec. 4, 1902 Jan. 12, 1932 29
52. William Rufus Day............. Ohio.................... Feb. 23, 1903 Nov. 13, 1922 19
53. William Henry Moody........... Massachusetts........... Dec. 12, 1906 Nov. 20, 1910 3
54. Horace Harmon Lurton.......... Tennessee............... Dec. 20, 1909 July 12, 1914 4
55. Charles Evans Hughes.......... New York................ May 2, 1910 June 10, 1916 5
56. Willis Van Devanter........... Wyoming................. Dec. 16, 1910 June 2, 1937 26
57. Joseph Rucker Lamar........... Georgia................. Dec. 17, 1910 Jan. 2, 1916 4
58. Mahlon Pitney................. New Jersey.............. Mar. 13, 1912 Dec. 31, 1922 10
59. James Clark McReynolds........ Tennessee............... Aug. 29, 1914 Jan. 31, 1941 26
60. Louis Dembitz Brandeis........ Massachusetts........... June 1, 1916 Feb. 13, 1939 22
61. John Hessin Clarke............ Ohio.................... July 24, 1916 Sept. 18, 1922 5
62. George Sutherland............. Utah.................... Sept. 5, 1922 Jan. 17, 1938 15
63. Pierce Butler................. Minnesota............... Dec. 21, 1922 Nov. 16, 1939 16
64. Edward Terry Sanford.......... Tennessee............... Jan. 29, 1923 Mar. 8, 1930 7
65. Harlan Fiske Stone............ New York................ Feb. 5, 1925 July 2, 1941 16
66. Owen Josephus Roberts......... Pennsylvania............ May 20, 1930 July 31, 1945 15
67. Benjamin Nathan Cardozo....... New York................ Mar. 2, 1932 July 9, 1938 6
68. Hugo Lafayette Black.......... Alabama................. Aug. 18, 1937 Sept. 17, 1971 34
69. Stanley Forman Reed........... Kentucky................ Jan. 27, 1938 Feb. 25, 1957 19
70. Felix Frankfurter............. Massachusetts........... Jan. 20, 1939 Aug. 28, 1962 23
71. William Orville Douglas....... Connecticut............. Apr. 15, 1939 Nov. 12, 1975 36
72. Frank Murphy.................. Michigan................ Jan. 18, 1940 July 19, 1949 9
73. James Francis Byrnes.......... South Carolina.......... June 25, 1941 Oct. 3, 1942 1
74. Robert Houghwout Jackson...... New York................ July 11, 1941 Oct. 9, 1954 13
75. Wiley Blount Rutledge......... Iowa.................... Feb. 11, 1943 Sept. 10, 1949 6
76. Harold Hitz Burton............ Ohio.................... Sept. 22, 1945 Oct. 13, 1958 13
77. Thomas Campbell Clark......... Texas................... Aug. 19, 1949 June 12, 1967 17
78. Sherman Minton................ Indiana................. Oct. 5, 1949 Oct. 15, 1956 7
79. John Marshall Harlan.......... New York................ Mar. 17, 1955 Sept. 23, 1971 16
80. William J. Brennan, Jr........ New Jersey.............. Oct. 15, 1956 July 20, 1990 34
81. Charles Evans Whittaker....... Missouri................ Mar. 22, 1957 Mar. 31, 1962 5
82. Potter Stewart................ Ohio.................... Oct. 14, 1958 July 3, 1981 23
83. Byron R. White................ Colorado................ Apr. 12, 1962 June 28, 1993 31
84. Arthur J. Goldberg............ Illinois................ Sept. 28, 1962 July 25, 1965 2
85. Abe Fortas.................... Tennessee............... Aug. 11, 1965 May 14, 1969 3
86. Thurgood Marshall............. New York................ Aug. 30, 1967 Oct. 1, 1991 24
87. Harry A. Blackmun............. Minnesota............... May 14, 1970 Aug. 3, 1994 24
88. Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr..... Virginia................ Dec. 9, 1971 June 26, 1987 16
89. William Hubbs Rehnquist....... Arizona................. Dec. 15, 1971 Sept. 25, 1986 15
90. John Paul Stevens............. Illinois................ Dec. 17, 1975 ................... .......
91. Sandra Day O'Connor........... Arizona................. Sept. 22, 1981 ................... .......
92. Antonin Scalia................ Virginia................ Sept. 25, 1986 ................... .......
93. Anthony M. Kennedy............ California.............. Feb. 18, 1988 ................... .......
94. David Hackett Souter.......... New Hampshire........... Oct. 29, 1990 ................... .......
95. Clarence Thomas............... Georgia................. Oct. 23, 1991 ................... .......
96. Ruth Bader Ginsburg........... New York................ Aug. 10, 1993 ................... .......
97. Stephen G. Breyer............. Massachusetts........... Aug. 3, 1994 ................... .......
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\1\Source: Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States.
\2\The acceptance of the appointment and commission by the appointee, as evidenced by the taking of the
prescribed oaths, is here implied, otherwise the individual is not carried on this list of the Members of the
Court. Examples: Robert Hanson Harrison is not carried, as a letter from President Washington of February 9,
1790, states Harrison declined to serve; neither is Edwin M. Stanton, who died before he could take the
necessary steps toward becoming a Member of the Court. Chief Justice Rutledge is included because he took his
oaths and presided over the August term of 1795, his name appearing on two opinions of the Court for that
term.
\3\Where a Member received two commissions the one entered on the Court's Minutes is here used.
\4\Commissioned July 1, 1795 (during adjournment of Congress); presided at August term, 1795. Nomination
rejected by the Senate Dec. 15, 1795.
\5\Also served as Associate Justice.