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US Supreme Court

US Supreme Court Justices

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1-James Wilson 1789–1798 - 9 Years - Washington - Death
2-JOHN JAY (1) 1789–1795 - 6 Years - Washington - Resignation
3-William Cushing 1789–1810 - 21 Years - Washington - Death
4-John Blair, Jr. 1789–1795 - 6 Years - Washington - Resignation
5-JOHN RUTLEDGE (2) 1789-1791 / 1795–1795 - 2 / 0 Years - Washington - Resignation / Rejection
6-James Iredell 1790–1799 - 9 Years - Washington - Death
7-Thomas Johnson 1792–1793 - 1 Years - Washington - Resignation
8-William Paterson 1793–1806 - 13 Years - Washington - Death
9-Samuel Chase 1796–1811 - 15 Years - Washington - Death
10-OLIVER ELLSWORTH (3) 1796–1800 - 4 Years - Washington - Resignation
11-Bushrod Washington 1798–1829 - 31 Years - Adams, J. - Death
12-Alfred Moore 1800–1804 - 4 Years - Adams, J. - Resignation
13-JOHN MARSHALL (4) 1801–1835 - 34 Years - Adams, J. - Death
14-William Johnson 1804–1834 - 30 Years - Jefferson - Death
15-Henry Brockholst Livingston 1807–1823 - 16 Years - Jefferson - Death
16-Thomas Todd 1807–1826 - 19 Years - Jefferson - Death
17-Gabriel Duvall 1811–1835 - 24 Years - Madison - Resignation
18-Joseph Story 1812–1845 - 33 Years - Madison - Death
19-Smith Thompson 1823–1843 - 20 Years - Monroe - Death
20-Robert Trimble 1826–1828 - 2 Years - Adams, J. Q. - Death
21-John McLean 1830–1861 - 31 Years - Jackson - Death
22-Henry Baldwin 1830–1844 - 14 Years - Jackson - Death
23-James Moore Wayne 1835–1867 - 32 Years - Jackson - Death
24-ROGER B. TANEY (5) 1836–1864 - 28 Years - Jackson - Death
25-Philip Pendleton Barbour 1836–1841 - 5 Years - Jackson - Death
26-John Catron 1837–1865 - 28 Years - Jackson - Death
27-John McKinley 1837–1852 - 15 Years - Van Buren - Death
28-Peter Vivian Daniel 1842–1860 - 18 Years - Van Buren - Death
29-Samuel Nelson 1845–1872 - 27 Years - Tyler - Retirement
30-Levi Woodbury 1845–1851 - 6 Years - Polk - Death
31-Robert Cooper Grier 1846–1870 - 24 Years - Polk - Retirement
32-Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1851–1857 - 6 Years - Fillmore - Resignation
33-John Archibald Campbell 1853–1861 - 8 Years - Pierce - Resignation
34-Nathan Clifford 1858–1881 - 23 Years - Buchanan - Death
35-Noah Haynes Swayne 1862–1881 - 19 Years - Lincoln - Retirement
36-Samuel Freeman Miller 1862–1890 - 28 Years - Lincoln - Death
37-David Davis 1862–1877 - 15 Years - Lincoln - Resignation
38-Stephen Johnson Field 1863–1897 - 34 Years - Lincoln - Retirement
39-SALMON P. CHASE (6) 1864–1873 - 9 Years - Lincoln - Death
40-William Strong 1870–1880 - 10 Years - Grant - Retirement
41-Joseph P. Bradley 1870–1892 - 22 Years - Grant - Death
42-Ward Hunt 1873–1882 - 9 Years - Grant - Retirement
43-MORRISON WAITE (7) 1874–1888 - 14 Years - Grant - Death
44-John Marshall Harlan 1877–1911 - 34 Years - Hayes - Death
45-William Burnham Woods 1881–1887 - 6 Years - Hayes - Death
46-Stanley Matthews 1881–1889 - 8 Years - Garfield - Death
47-Horace Gray 1882–1902 - 20 Years - Arthur - Death
48-Samuel Blatchford 1882–1893 - 11 Years - Arthur - Death
49-Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar 1888–1893 - 5 Years - Cleveland - Death
50-MELVILLE FULLER (8) 1888–1910 - 22 Years - Cleveland - Death
51-David Josiah Brewer 1890–1910 - 20 Years - Harrison, B. - Death
52-Henry Billings Brown 1891–1906 - 15 Years - Harrison, B. - Retirement
53-George Shiras, Jr. 1892–1903 - 11 Years - Harrison, B. - Retirement
54-Howell Edmunds Jackson 1893–1895 - 2 Years - Harrison, B. - Death
55-EDWARD DOUGLASS WHITE (9) 1894–1921 - 27 Years - Cleveland / Taft - Death
56-Rufus Wheeler Peckham 1896–1909 - 13 Years - Cleveland - Death
57-Joseph McKenna 1898–1925 - 27 Years - McKinley - Retirement
58-Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1902–1932 - 30 Years - Roosevelt, T. - Retirement
59-William R. Day 1903–1922 - 19 Years - Roosevelt, T. - Retirement
60-William Henry Moody 1906–1910 - 4 Years - Roosevelt, T. - Retirement
61-Horace Harmon Lurton 1910–1914 - 4 Years - Taft - Death
62-CHARLES EVANS HUGHES (11) 1910–1916 / 1930-1941 - 6 / 11 Years - Taft / Hoover - Resignation / Retirement
63-Willis Van Devanter 1911–1937 - 26 Years - Taft - Retirement
64-Joseph Rucker Lamar 1911–1916 - 5 Years - Taft - Death
65-Mahlon Pitney 1912–1922 - 10 Years - Taft - Resignation
66-James Clark McReynolds 1914–1941 - 27 Years - Wilson - Retirement
67-Louis Brandeis 1916–1939 - 23 Years - Wilson - Retirement
68-John Hessin Clarke 1916–1922 - 6 Years - Wilson - Resignation
69-WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT (10) 1921–1930 - 9 Years - Harding - Resignation
70-George Sutherland 1922–1938 - 16 Years - Harding - Retirement
71-Pierce Butler 1923–1939 - 16 Years - Harding - Death
72-Edward Terry Sanford 1923–1930 - 7 Years - Harding - Death
73-HARLAN F. STONE (12) 1925–1946 - 21 Years - Coolidge / Roosevelt F. - Death
74-Owen Roberts 1930–1945 - 15 Years - Hoover - Resignation
75-Benjamin N. Cardozo 1932–1938 - 6 Years - Hoover - Death
76-Hugo Black 1937–1971 - 34 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Retirement
77-Stanley Forman Reed 1938–1957 - 19 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Retirement
78-Felix Frankfurter 1939–1962 - 23 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Retirement
79-William O. Douglas 1939–1975 - 36 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Retirement
80-Frank Murphy 1940–1949 - 9 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Death
81-James F. Byrnes 1941–1942 - 1 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Resignation
82-Robert H. Jackson 1941–1954 - 13 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Death
83-Wiley Blount Rutledge 1943–1949 - 6 Years - Roosevelt, F. - Death
84-Harold Hitz Burton 1945–1958 - 13 Years - Truman - Retirement
85-FRED M. VINSON (13) 1946–1953 - 7 Years - Truman - Death
86-Tom C. Clark 1949–1967 - 18 Years - Truman - Retirement
87-Sherman Minton 1949–1956 - 7 Years - Truman - Retirement
88-EARL WARREN (14) 1953–1969 - 16 Years - Eisenhower - Retirement
89-John Marshall Harlan II 1955–1971 - 16 Years - Eisenhower - Retirement
90-William J. Brennan, Jr. 1956–1990 - 34 Years - Eisenhower - Retirement
91-Charles Evans Whittaker 1957–1962 - 5 Years - Eisenhower - Resignation
92-Potter Stewart 1958–1981 - 23 Years - Eisenhower - Retirement
93-Byron White 1962–1993 - 31 Years - Kennedy - Retirement
94-Arthur Goldberg 1962–1965 - 3 Years - Kennedy - Resignation
95-Abe Fortas 1965–1969 - 4 Years - Johnson, L. - Resignation
96-Thurgood Marshall 1967–1991 - 24 Years - Johnson, L. - Retirement
97-WARREN E. BURGER (15) 1969–1986 - 17 Years - Nixon - Retirement
98-Harry Blackmun 1970–1994 - 24 Years - Nixon - Retirement
99-Lewis F. Powell, Jr. 1972–1987 - 15 Years - Nixon - Retirement
100-WILLIAM REHNQUIST (16) 1972–2005 - 33 Years - Nixon / Reagan - Death
101-John Paul Stevens 1975–2010 - 35 Years - Ford - Retirement
102-Sandra Day O'Connor 1981–2006 - 25 Years - Reagan - Retirement
103-Antonin Scalia 1986–present - 28 Years - Reagan - Currently serving
104-Anthony Kennedy 1988–present - 26 Years - Reagan - Currently serving
105-David Souter 1990–2009 - 19 Years - Bush, G. H. W. - Retirement
106-Clarence Thomas 1991–present - 23 Years - Bush, G. H. W. - Currently serving
107-Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993–present - 21 Years - Clinton - Currently serving
108-Stephen Breyer 1994–present - 20 Years - Clinton - Currently serving
109-JOHN G. ROBERTS (17) 2005–present - 9 Years - Bush, G. W. - Currently serving
110-Samuel Alito 2006–present - 8 Years - Bush, G. W. - Currently serving
111-Sonia Sotomayor 2009–present - 5 Years - Obama - Currently serving
112-Elena Kagan 2010–present - 4 Years - Obama - Currently serving
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