Wikipedia:WikiProject United States courts and judges/Supreme Court of the United States
Appearance
Judge | Appointed by | Began active service |
Ended active service |
Ended senior status |
End reason |
Samuel Alito | George W. Bush | January 31, 2006 | Incumbent | - | - |
Henry Baldwin | Andrew Jackson | January 6, 1830 | April 21, 1844 | - | death |
Philip Pendleton Barbour | Andrew Jackson | March 15, 1836 | February 25, 1841 | - | death |
Hugo Black | Franklin D. Roosevelt | August 18, 1937 | September 17, 1971 | September 25, 1971 | death |
Harry Blackmun | Richard M. Nixon | May 14, 1970 | August 3, 1994 | March 4, 1999 | death |
John Blair Jr. | George Washington | September 30, 1789 | October 25, 1795 | - | resignation |
Samuel Blatchford | Chester A. Arthur | March 22, 1882 | July 7, 1893 | - | death |
Joseph P. Bradley | Ulysses Grant | March 21, 1870 | January 22, 1892 | - | death |
Louis Brandeis | Woodrow Wilson | June 1, 1916 | February 13, 1939 | October 5, 1941 | death |
William J. Brennan, Jr. | Dwight D. Eisenhower | [1] | October 15, 1956July 20, 1990 | July 24, 1997 | death |
David Josiah Brewer | Benjamin Harrison | December 18, 1889 | March 28, 1910 | - | death |
Stephen Breyer | Bill Clinton | August 3, 1994 | Incumbent | - | - |
Henry Billings Brown | Benjamin Harrison | December 29, 1890 | May 28, 1906 | - | retirement |
Warren E. Burger | Richard M. Nixon | June 23, 1969 | September 26, 1986 | June 25, 1995 | death |
Harold Hitz Burton | Harry S Truman | September 22, 1945 | October 13, 1958 | October 28, 1964 | death |
Pierce Butler | Warren G. Harding | December 21, 1922 | November 16, 1939 | - | death |
James F. Byrnes | Franklin D. Roosevelt | June 25, 1941 | October 3, 1942 | - | resignation |
John Archibald Campbell | Franklin Pierce | March 22, 1853 | April 30, 1861 | - | resignation |
Benjamin N. Cardozo | Herbert Hoover | March 2, 1932 | July 9, 1938 | - | death |
John Catron | Andrew Jackson | March 8, 1837 | May 30, 1865 | - | death |
Salmon Portland Chase | Abraham Lincoln | December 6, 1864 | May 7, 1873 | - | death |
Samuel Chase | George Washington | January 27, 1796 | June 19, 1811 | - | death |
Tom C. Clark | Harry S Truman | August 19, 1949 | June 12, 1967 | June 13, 1977 | death |
John Hessin Clarke | Woodrow Wilson | July 24, 1916 | September 18, 1922 | - | resignation |
Nathan Clifford | James Buchanan | January 12, 1858 | July 25, 1881 | - | death |
Benjamin Robbins Curtis | Millard Fillmore | [2] | September 22, 1851September 30, 1857 | - | resignation |
William Cushing | George Washington | September 27, 1789 | September 13, 1810 | - | death |
Peter Vivian Daniel | Martin Van Buren | March 3, 1841 | May 31, 1860 | - | death |
David Davis | Abraham Lincoln | [3] | October 17, 1862March 4, 1877 | - | resignation |
William R. Day | Theodore Roosevelt | February 23, 1903 | November 13, 1922 | - | retirement |
William O. Douglas | Franklin D. Roosevelt | April 15, 1939 | November 12, 1975 | January 19, 1980 | death |
Gabriel Duvall | James Madison | November 18, 1811 | January 12, 1835 | - | resignation |
Oliver Ellsworth | George Washington | March 4, 1796 | September 30, 1800 | - | resignation |
Stephen Johnson Field | Abraham Lincoln | March 10, 1863 | December 1, 1897 | - | retirement |
Abe Fortas | Lyndon B. Johnson | August 11, 1965 | May 14, 1969 | - | resignation |
Felix Frankfurter | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 20, 1939 | August 28, 1962 | February 22, 1965 | death |
Melville Weston Fuller | Grover Cleveland | July 20, 1888 | July 4, 1910 | - | death |
Ruth Bader Ginsburg | Bill Clinton | August 5, 1993 | Incumbent | - | - |
Arthur Goldberg | John F. Kennedy | September 28, 1962 | July 26, 1965 | - | resignation |
Horace Gray | Chester A. Arthur | December 20, 1881 | September 15, 1902 | - | death |
Robert Cooper Grier | James K. Polk | August 4, 1846 | January 31, 1870 | - | retirement |
John Marshall Harlan | Rutherford B. Hayes | November 29, 1877 | October 14, 1911 | - | death |
John Marshall Harlan | Dwight D. Eisenhower | March 17, 1955 | September 23, 1971 | December 29, 1971 | death |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Theodore Roosevelt | [4] | August 11, 1902January 12, 1932 | - | retirement |
Charles Evans Hughes | William H. Taft | May 2, 1910 | June 10, 1916 | - | resignation |
Charles Evans Hughes | Herbert Hoover | February 13, 1930 | June 30, 1941 | August 27, 1948 | death |
Ward Hunt | Ulysses Grant | December 11, 1872 | January 27, 1882 | - | retirement |
James Iredell | George Washington | February 10, 1790 | October 20, 1799 | - | death |
Howell Edmunds Jackson | Benjamin Harrison | February 18, 1893 | August 8, 1895 | - | death |
Robert H. Jackson | Franklin D. Roosevelt | July 11, 1941 | October 9, 1954 | - | death |
John Jay | George Washington | September 26, 1789 | June 29, 1795 | - | resignation |
Thomas Johnson | George Washington | [5] | August 5, 1791January 16, 1793 | - | resignation |
William Johnson Jr. | Thomas Jefferson | March 26, 1804 | August 4, 1834 | - | death |
Anthony Kennedy | Ronald Reagan | February 11, 1988 | Incumbent | - | - |
Joseph Rucker Lamar | William H. Taft | December 17, 1910 | January 2, 1916 | - | death |
Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar | Grover Cleveland | January 16, 1888 | January 23, 1893 | - | death |
Henry Brockholst Livingston | Thomas Jefferson | [6] | November 10, 1806March 18, 1823 | - | death |
Horace Harmon Lurton | William H. Taft | December 20, 1909 | July 12, 1914 | - | death |
John Marshall | John Adams | January 31, 1801 | July 6, 1835 | - | death |
Thurgood Marshall | Lyndon B. Johnson | August 30, 1967 | October 1, 1991 | January 24, 1993 | death |
Stanley Matthews | James A. Garfield | May 12, 1881 | March 22, 1889 | - | death |
Joseph McKenna | William McKinley | January 21, 1898 | January 5, 1925 | - | retirement |
John McKinley | Martin Van Buren | [7] | April 22, 1837July 19, 1852 | - | death |
John McLean | Andrew Jackson | March 7, 1829 | April 4, 1861 | - | death |
James Clark McReynolds | Woodrow Wilson | August 29, 1914 | January 31, 1941 | August 24, 1946 | death |
Samuel Freeman Miller | Abraham Lincoln | July 16, 1862 | October 13, 1890 | - | death |
Sherman Minton | Harry S Truman | October 5, 1949 | October 15, 1956 | April 9, 1965 | death |
William Henry Moody | Theodore Roosevelt | December 12, 1906 | November 19, 1910 | - | resignation |
Alfred Moore | John Adams | December 10, 1799 | January 26, 1804 | - | resignation |
Frank Murphy | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 18, 1940 | July 19, 1949 | - | death |
Samuel Nelson | John Tyler, Sr. | February 13, 1845 | November 28, 1872 | - | retirement |
Sandra Day O'Connor | Ronald Reagan | September 22, 1981 | January 31, 2006 | Incumbent | - |
William Paterson | George Washington | March 4, 1793 | September 9, 1806 | - | death |
Rufus Wheeler Peckham | Grover Cleveland | December 9, 1895 | October 24, 1909 | - | death |
Mahlon Pitney | William H. Taft | March 13, 1912 | December 31, 1922 | - | resignation |
Lewis F. Powell, Jr. | Richard M. Nixon | December 9, 1971 | June 26, 1987 | August 25, 1998 | death |
Stanley Forman Reed | Franklin D. Roosevelt | January 27, 1938 | February 25, 1957 | April 2, 1980 | death |
William Rehnquist | Richard M. Nixon | December 15, 1971 | September 26, 1986 | - | reappointment |
William Rehnquist | Ronald Reagan | September 25, 1986 | September 3, 2005 | - | death |
John G. Roberts | George W. Bush | September 29, 2005 | Incumbent | - | - |
Owen Roberts | Herbert Hoover | May 20, 1930 | July 31, 1945 | - | resignation |
John Rutledge | George Washington | September 26, 1789 | March 5, 1791 | - | resignation |
John Rutledge | George Washington | [8] | July 1, 1795December 28, 1795 | ||
Wiley Blount Rutledge | Franklin D. Roosevelt | February 11, 1943 | September 10, 1949 | - | death |
Edward Terry Sanford | Warren G. Harding | January 29, 1923 | March 8, 1930 | - | death |
Antonin Scalia | Ronald Reagan | September 25, 1986 | Incumbent | - | - |
George Shiras, Jr. | Benjamin Harrison | July 26, 1892 | February 23, 1903 | - | retirement |
David Souter | George H.W. Bush | October 3, 1990 | Incumbent | - | - |
John Paul Stevens | Gerald Ford | December 17, 1975 | Incumbent | - | - |
Potter Stewart | Dwight D. Eisenhower | [9] | October 14, 1958July 3, 1981 | December 7, 1985 | death |
Harlan Fiske Stone | Calvin Coolidge | February 5, 1925 | July 3, 1941 | - | reappointment |
Harlan Fiske Stone | Franklin D. Roosevelt | July 3, 1941 | April 22, 1946 | - | death |
Joseph Story | James Madison | November 18, 1811 | September 10, 1845 | - | death |
William Strong | Ulysses Grant | February 18, 1870 | December 14, 1880 | - | retirement |
George Sutherland | Warren G. Harding | September 5, 1922 | January 17, 1938 | July 18, 1942 | death |
Noah Haynes Swayne | Abraham Lincoln | January 24, 1862 | January 24, 1881 | - | retirement |
William Howard Taft | Warren G. Harding | June 30, 1921 | February 3, 1930 | - | resignation |
Roger Brooke Taney | Andrew Jackson | March 15, 1836 | October 12, 1864 | - | death |
Clarence Thomas | George H.W. Bush | October 18, 1991 | Incumbent | - | - |
Smith Thompson | James Monroe | [10] | September 1, 1823December 18, 1843 | - | death |
Thomas Todd | Thomas Jefferson | March 3, 1807 | February 7, 1826 | - | death |
Robert Trimble | John Quincy Adams | May 9, 1826 | August 25, 1828 | - | death |
Willis Van Devanter | William H. Taft | December 16, 1910 | June 2, 1937 | February 8, 1941 | death |
Fred M. Vinson | Harry S Truman | June 21, 1946 | September 8, 1953 | - | death |
Morrison Remick Waite | Ulysses Grant | January 21, 1874 | March 23, 1888 | - | death |
Earl Warren | Dwight D. Eisenhower | [11] | October 2, 1953June 23, 1969 | July 9, 1974 | death |
Bushrod Washington | John Adams | [12] | September 29, 1798November 26, 1829 | - | death |
James Moore Wayne | Andrew Jackson | January 9, 1835 | July 5, 1867 | - | death |
Byron White | John F. Kennedy | April 12, 1962 | June 28, 1993 | April 15, 2002 | death |
Edward Douglass White | Grover Cleveland | February 19, 1894 | December 18, 1910 | - | reappointment |
Edward Douglass White | William H. Taft | December 12, 1910 | May 19, 1921 | - | death |
Charles Evans Whittaker | Dwight D. Eisenhower | March 22, 1957 | March 31, 1962 | September 30, 1965 | resignation |
James Wilson | George Washington | September 29, 1789 | August 21, 1798 | - | death |
Levi Woodbury | James K. Polk | [13] | September 20, 1845September 4, 1851 | - | death |
William Burnham Woods | Rutherford B. Hayes | December 21, 1880 | May 14, 1887 | - | death |
Notes
[edit]- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 14, 1957, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 19, 1957, and received commission on March 21, 1957.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 11, 1851, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 1851, and received commission on December 20, 1851.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 1, 1862, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 8, 1862, and received commission on December 8, 1862.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 2, 1902, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 4, 1902, and received commission on December 4, 1902.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on October 31, 1791, confirmed by the United States Senate on November 7, 1791, and received commission on November 7, 1791.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 15, 1806, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 17, 1806, and received commission on January 16, 1807.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on September 18, 1837, confirmed by the United States Senate on September 25, 1837, and received commission on September 25, 1837.
- ^ Rutledge served two different terms on the Supreme Court. He was first appointed as an Associate Justice in 1789, resigning from that position in 1791. He was made Chief Justice by a recess appointment in 1791, and formally nominated on December 10, 1795. His nomination was thereafter rejected by Congress in December 1791, and he resigned.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 17, 1959, confirmed by the United States Senate on May 5, 1959, and received commission on May 7, 1959.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 5, 1823, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 9, 1823, and received commission on December 9, 1823.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on January 11, 1954, confirmed by the United States Senate on March 1, 1954, and received commission on March 20, 1954.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 19, 1798, confirmed by the United States Senate on December 20, 1798, and received commission on December 20, 1798.
- ^ Recess appointment; formally nominated on December 23, 1845, confirmed by the United States Senate on January 3, 1846, and received commission on January 3, 1846.