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Supreme Court Justices

Supreme Court Justices
(including dates on bench)

Chief Justices

John Jay	1789-95
John Rutledge	1795
Oliver Ellsworth	1796-1800
John Marshall	1801-35
Roger B. Taney	1836-64
Salmon P. Chase	1864-73
Morrison R. Waite	1874-88
Melville W. Fuller	1888-1910
Edward D. White	1910-21
William H. Taft	1921-30
Charles E. Hughes	1930-41
Harlan F. Stone	1941-46
Fred M. Vinson	1946-53
Earl Warren	1953-69
Warren E. Burger	1969-86
William H. Rehnquist	1986-2005
John G. Roberts, Jr.	2005-

Associate Justices

John Rutledge	1789-91
William Cushing	1789-1810
James Wilson	1789-98
John Blair	1789-96
Robert H. Harrison	1789-90
James Iredell	1790-99
Thomas Johnson	1791-93
William Paterson	1793-1806
Samuel Chase	1796-1811
Bushrod Washington	1798-1829
Alfred Moore	1799-1804
William Johnson	1804-34
Henry Brockholst Livingston	1806-23
Thomas Todd	1807-26
Gabriel Duval	1811-36
Joseph Storey	1811-45
Smith Thompson	1823-43
Robert Trimble	1826-28
John McLean	1829-61
Henry Baldwin	1830-44
James M. Wayne	1835-67
Philip P. Barbour	1836-41
John Catron	1837-65
John McKinley	1837-52
Peter V. Daniel	1841-60
Samuel Nelson	1845-72
Levi Woodbury	1845-51
Robert C. Grier	1846-70
Benjamin R. Curtis	1851-57
John A. Campbell	1853-61
Nathan Clifford	1858-81
Noah H. Swayne	1862-81
Samuel F. Miller	1862-90
David Davis	1862-77
Stephen J. Field	1863-97
William Strong	1870-80
Joseph P. Bradley	1870-92
Ward Hunt	1873-82
John M. Harlan	1877-1911
William B. Woods	1881-87
Stanley Matthews	1881-89
Horace Gray	1882-1902
Samuel Blatchford	1882-93
Lucius G. C. Lamar	1888-93
David J. Brewer	1890-1910
Henry B. Brown	1891-1906
George Shiras, Jr.	1892-1903
Howell E. Jackson	1893-95
Edward D. White	1894-1910
Rufus W. Peckham	1896-1909
Joseph McKenna	1898-1925
Oliver W. Holmes	1902-32
William R. Day	1903-22
William H. Moody	1906-10
Horace H. Lurton	1910-14
Charles E. Hughes	1910-16
Willis Van Devanter	1911-37
Joseph R. Lamar	1911-16
Mahlon Pitney	1912-22
James C. McReynolds	1914-41
Louis D. Brandeis	1916-39
John H. Clarke	1916-22
George Sutherland	1922-38
Pierce Butler	1923-39
Edward T. Sanford	1923-30
Harlan F. Stone	1925-41
Owen J. Roberts	1930-45
Benjamin N. Cardozo	1932-38
Hugo Black	1937-71
Stanley F. Reed	1938-57
Felix Frankfurter	1939-62
William O. Douglas	1939-75
Frank Murphy	1940-49
James F. Byrnes	1941-42
Robert H. Jackson	1941-54
Wiley B. Rutledge	1943-49
Harold H. Burton	1945-58
Thomas C. Clark	1949-67
Sherman Minton	1949-56
John M. Harlan	1955-71
William J. Brennan, Jr.	1956-90
Charles E. Whittaker	1957-62
Potter Stewart	1958-81
Byron R. White	1962-93
Arthur J. Goldberg	1962-65
Abe Fortas	1965-69
Thurgood Marshall	1967-91
Harry A. Blackmun	1970-94
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.	1971-87
William H. Rehnquist	1971-86
John Paul Stevens	1975-
Sandra Day O'Connor	1981-2006
Antonin Scalia	1986-
Anthony M. Kennedy	1988-
David H. Souter	1990-
Clarence Thomas	1991-
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	1993-
Stephen G. Breyer	1994-
Samuel A. Alito, Jr.	2006-

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