[United States Senate Manual, 117th Congress]
[S. Doc. 117-1]
[Statistical Data]
[Pages 731-733]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]


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                                         JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT

                                                          

                                                                       1970

                                 JUSTICES OF THE SUPREME COURT, 1789 TO 2020\1\
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                                                                                                          Years
              Name\2\                State whence appointed          Date of            Date service        of
                                                                  commission\3\          terminated      service
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          chief justices
 
 1. John Jay......................  New York................  Sept. 26, 1789        June 29, 1795              5
 2. John Rutledge.................  South Carolina..........  July 1, 1795          Dec. 15, 1795        (\4\)(\
                                                                                                             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        Sept. 3, 2005          \5\19
17. John G. Roberts, Jr...........  Maryland................  Sept. 29, 2005        ...................  .......
        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

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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
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         June 29, 2010             34
91. Sandra Day O'Connor...........  Arizona.................  Sept. 22, 1981        Jan. 31, 2006             26
92. Antonin Scalia................  Virginia................  Sept. 25, 1986        Feb. 13, 2016             29
93. Anthony M. Kennedy............  California..............  Feb. 18, 1988         July 31, 2013             30
94. David Hackett Souter..........  New Hampshire...........  Oct. 29, 1990         June 29, 2009             18
95. Clarence Thomas...............  Georgia.................  Oct. 23, 1991         ...................  .......
96. Ruth Bader Ginsburg...........  New York................  Aug. 10, 1993         Sept. 18, 2020            27
97. Stephen G. Breyer.............  Massachusetts...........  Aug. 3, 1994          ...................  .......
98. Samuel A. Alito, Jr...........  New Jersey..............  Jan. 31, 2006         ...................  .......
99. Sonia M. Sotomayor............  New York................  Aug. 8, 2009          ...................  .......
100. Elena Kagan..................  Massachusetts...........  Aug. 7, 2010          ...................  .......
101. Neil M. Gorsuch..............  Colorado................  Apr. 10, 2017         ...................  .......
102. Brett M. Kavanaugh...........  Maryland................  Oct. 6, 2018          ...................  .......
103. Amy Coney Barrett............  Indiana.................  Oct. 26, 2020         ...................  .......
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\1\Source: Marshal, Supreme Court of the United States.

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\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.