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United States Supreme Court Justices

*Chief Justices
Name Appointed by President Oath Taken - End of Term
John Jay Washington 10/19/1789 - 06/29/1795
John Rutledge Washington 08/12/1795 - 12/15/1795
Oliver Ellsworth Washington 03/08/1796 - 12/15/1800
John Marshall Adams, J. 02/04/1801 - 07/06/1835
Roger Brooke Taney Jackson 03/28/1836 - 10/12/1864
Salmon Portland Chase Lincoln 12/15/1864 - 05/07/1873
Morrisson Remick Waite Grant 03/04/1874 - 03/23/1888
Melville Weston Fuller Cleveland 10/08/1888 - 07/04/1910
Edward Douglas White Taft 12/19/1910 - 05/19/1921
William Howard Taft Harding 07/11/1921 - 02/03/1930
Charles Evans Hughes Hoover 02/24/1930 - 06/30/1941
Fred Moore Vinson Truman 06/24/1946 - 09/08/1953
Earl Warren Eisenhower 10/05/1953 - 06/23/1969
Warren Earl Burger Nixon 06/23/1969 - 09/26/1986
William H. Rehnquist Reagan 09/26/1986 - 09/03/2005
John G. Roberts, Jr. Bush, G.W. 09/29/2005 - ------------
*Associate Justices
James Wilson Washington 10/05/1789 - 08/21/1798
William Cushing Washington 02/02/1790 - 09/13/1810
John Rutledge Washington 02/15/1790 - 03/05/1791
John Blair Washington 02/02/1790 - 10/25/1795
James Iredell Washington 05/12/1790 - 10/20/1799
Thomas Johnson Washington 08/06/1792 - 01/16/1793
William Paterson Washington 03/11/1793 - 09/09/1806
Samuel Chase Washington 02/04/1796 - 06/19/1811
Bushrod Washington Adams, J. 02/04/1799 - 11/26/1829
Alfred Moore Adams, J. 04/21/1800 - 01/26/1804
William Johnson Jefferson 05/07/1804 - 08/04/1834
Henry Brockholst Livingston Jefferson 01/20/1807 - 03/18/1823
Thomas Todd Jefferson 05/04/1807 - 02/07/1826
Gabriel Duvall Madison 11/23/1811 - 01/14/1835
Joseph Story Madison 02/03/1812 - 09/10/1845
Smith Thompson Monroe 09/01/1823 - 12/18/1843
Robert Trimble Adams, J.Q. 06/16/1826 - 08/25/1828
John McLean Jackson 01/11/1830 - 04/04/1861
Henry Baldwin Jackson 01/18/1830 - 04/21/1844
James Moore Wayne Jackson 01/14/1835 - 07/05/1867
Philip Pendleton Barbour Jackson 05/12/1836 - 02/25/1841
John Catron Jackson 05/01/1837 - 05/30/1865
John McKinley Van Buren 01/09/1838 - 07/19/1852
Peter Vivian Daniel Van Buren 01/10/1842 - 05/31/1860
Samuel Nelson Tyler 02/27/1845 - 11/28/1872
Levi Woodbury Polk 09/23/1845 - 09/04/1851
Robert Cooper Grier Polk 08/10/1846 - 01/31/1870
Benjamin Robbins Curtis Fillmore 10/10/1851 - 09/30/1857
John Archibald Campbell Pierce 04/11/1853 - 04/30/1861
Nathan Clifford Buchanan 01/21/1858 - 07/25/1881
Noah Haynes Swayne Lincoln 01/27/1862 - 01/24/1881
Samuel Freeman Miller Lincoln 07/21/1862 - 10/13/1890
David Davis Lincoln 12/10/1862 - 03/04/1877
Stephen Johnson Field Lincoln 05/20/1863 - 12/01/1897
William Strong Grant 03/14/1870 - 12/14/1880
Joseph P. Bradley Grant 03/23/1870 - 01/22/1892
Ward Hunt Grant 01/09/1873 - 01/27/1882
John Marshall Harlan Hayes 12/10/1877 - 10/14/1911
William Burnham Woods Hayes 01/05/1881 - 05/14/1887
Stanley Matthews Garfield 05/17/1881 - 03/22/1889
Horace Gray Arthur 01/09/1882 - 09/15/1902
Samuel Blatchford Arthur 04/03/1882 - 07/07/1893
Lucius Quintus C. Lamar Cleveland 01/18/1888 - 01/23/1893
David Josiah Brewer Harrison 01/06/1890 - 03/28/1910
Henry Billings Brown Harrison 01/05/1891 - 05/28/1906
George Shiras, Jr. Harrison 10/10/1892 - 02/23/1903
Howell Edmunds Jackson Harrison 04/04/1893 - 08/08/1895
Edward Douglass White Cleveland 03/12/1894 - 12/18/1910
Rufus Wheeler Peckham Cleveland 01/06/1896 - 10/24/1909
Joseph McKenna McKinley 01/26/1898 - 01/05/1925
Oliver Wendell Holmes Roosevelt, T. 12/08/1902 - 01/12/1932
William Rufus Day Roosevelt, T. 03/02/1903 - 11/13/1922
William Henry Moody Roosevelt, T. 12/17/1906 - 11/20/1910
Horace Harmon Lurton Taft 01/03/1910 - 07/12/1914
Charles Evans Hughes Taft 10/10/1910 - 06/10/1916
Wilis Van Devanter Taft 01/03/1911 - 06/02/1937
Joseph Rucker Lamar Taft 01/03/1911 - 01/02/1916
Mahlon Pitney Taft 03/18/1912 - 12/31/1922
James Clark McReynolds Wilson 10/12/1914 - 01/31/1941
Louis Dembitz Brandeis Wilson 06/05/1916 - 02/13/1939
John Hessin Clarke Wilson 10/09/1916 - 09/18/1922
George Sutherland Harding 10/02/1922 - 01/17/1938
Pierce Butler Harding 01/02/1923 - 11/16/1939
Edward Terry Sanford Harding 02/19/1923 - 03/08/1930
Harlan Fiske Stone Coolidge 03/02/1925 - 07/02/1941
Owen Josephus Roberts Hoover 06/02/1930 - 07/31/1945
Benjamin Nathan Cardoza Hoover 03/14/1932 - 07/09/1938
Hugo Lafayette Black Roosevelt, F. 08/19/1937 - 09/17/1971
Stanley Forman Reed Roosevelt, F. 01/31/1938 - 02/25/1957
Felix Frankfurter Roosevelt, F. 01/30/1939 - 08/28/1962
William Orville Douglas Roosevelt, F. 04/17/1939 - 11/12/1975
Frank Murphy Roosevelt, F. 02/05/1940 - 07/19/1949
James Francis Byrnes Roosevelt, F. 07/08/1941 - 10/03/1942
Robert Houghwout Jackson Roosevelt, F. 07/11/1941 - 10/09/1954
Wiley Blount Rutledge Roosevelt, F. 02/15/1943 - 09/10/1949
Harold Hitz Burton Truman 10/01/1945 - 10/13/1958
Tom Campbell Clark Truman 08/24/1949 - 06/12/1967
Sherman Minton Truman 10/12/1949 - 10/15/1956
John Marshall Harlan Eisenhower 03/28/1955 - 09/23/1971
William J. Brennan, Jr. Eisenhower 10/16/1956 - 07/20/1990
Charles Evans Whittaker Eisenhower 03/25/1957 - 03/31/1962
Potter Stewart Eisenhower 10/14/1958 - 07/03/1981
Byron Raymond White Kennedy 04/16/1962 - 06/28/1993
Arthur Joseph Goldberg Kennedy 10/01/1962 - 07/25/1965
Abe Fortas Johnson, L. 10/04/1965 - 05/14/1969
Thurgood Marshall Johnson, L. 10/02/1967 - 10/01/1991
Harry A. Blackmun Nixon 06/09/1970 - 08/03/1994
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. Nixon 01/07/1972 - 6/26/1987
William H. Rehnquist Nixon 01/07/1972 - 09/26/1986
John Paul Stevens Ford 12/19/1975 - -------------
Sandra Day O'Connor Reagan 09/25/19810 - 1/31/2006
Antonin Scalia Reagan 09/26/1986 - -------------
Anthony M. Kennedy Reagan 02/18/1988 - -------------
David H. Souter Bush, G.H.W. 10/09/1990 - -------------
Clarence Thomas Bush, G.H.W. 10/23/1991 - -------------
Ruth Bader Ginsburg Clinton 08/10/1993 - -------------
Stephen G. Breyer Clinton 08/03/1994 - -------------
Samuel A. Alito, Jr. Bush, G.W. 01/31/2006 - -------------
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