| Tenure
| Justice
| Served in Court(s)
| Critical Rulings
| Nominated By
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| 1789-1798 | James Wilson | John Jay Court, John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1790-1796 | John Blair, Jr. | John Jay Court, John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1790-1799 | James Iredell | John Jay Court, John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1790-1810 | William Cushing | John Jay Court, John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court, John Marshall Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1792-1793 | Thomas Johnson | John Jay Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1793-1806 | William Paterson | John Jay Court, John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court, John Marshall Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1796-1811 | Samuel Chase | John Rutledge Court, Oliver Ellsworth Court, John Marshall Court | (PLs) | George Washington
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| 1799-1829 | Bushrod Washington | Oliver Ellsworth Court, John Marshall Court | (PLs) | John Adams
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| 1800-1804 | Alfred Moore | Oliver Ellsworth Court, John Marshall Court | (PLs) | John Adams
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| 1804-1834 | William Johnson | John Marshall Court | (PLs) | Thomas Jefferson
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| 1807-1823 | H. Brockholst Livingston | John Marshall Court | (PLs) | Thomas Jefferson
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| 1807-1826 | Thomas Todd | John Marshall Court | (PLs) | Thomas Jefferson
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| 1811-1835 | Gabriel Duvall | John Marshall Court | (PLs) | James Madison
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| 1812-1845 | Joseph Story | John Marshall Court, Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | James Madison
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| 1823-1843 | Smith Thompson | John Marshall Court, Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | James Monroe
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| 1826-1828 | Robert Trimble | John Marshall Court | (PLs) | John Quincy Adams
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| 1830-1844 | Henry Baldwin | John Marshall Court, Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Andrew Jackson
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| 1830-1861 | John McLean | John Marshall Court, Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Andrew Jackson
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| 1835-1867 | James M. Wayne | John Marshall Court, Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court | (PLs) | Andrew Jackson
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| 1836-1841 | Philip P. Barbour | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Andrew Jackson
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| 1837-1865 | John Catron | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court | (PLs) | Andrew Jackson
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| 1838-1852 | John McKinley | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Martin Van Buren
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| 1842-1860 | Peter V. Daniel | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Martin Van Buren
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| 1845-1851 | Levi Woodbury | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | James K. Polk
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| 1845-1872 | Samuel Nelson | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court | (PLs) | James K. Polk
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| 1846-1870 | Robert C. Grier | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court | (PLs) | James K. Polk
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| 1851-1857 | Benjamin R. Curtis | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Millard Fillmore
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| 1853-1861 | John A. Campbell | Roger B. Taney Court | (PLs) | Franklin Pierce
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| 1858-1881 | Nathan Clifford | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | James Buchanan
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| 1862-1877 | David Davis | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Abraham Lincoln
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| 1862-1881 | Noah H. Swayne | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Abraham Lincoln
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| 1863-1897 | Stephen J. Field | Roger B. Taney Court, Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Abraham Lincoln
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| 1870-1880 | William Strong | Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Ulysses S. Grant
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| 1870-1892 | Joseph P. Bradley | Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Ulysses S. Grant
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| 1873-1882 | Ward Hunt | Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Ulysses S. Grant
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| 1877-1889 | John Marshall Harlan | Salmon P. Chase Court, Morrison R. Waite Court, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| 1881-1887 | William B. Woods | Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Rutherford B. Hayes
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| 1881-1889 | Stanley Matthews | Morrison R. Waite Court, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | James A. Garfield
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| 1882-1893 | Samuel Blatchford | Morrison R. Waite Court, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Chester A. Arthur
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| 1882-1902 | Horace Gray | Morrison R. Waite, Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Chester A. Arthur
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| 1888-1893 | Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Morrison R. Waite Court | (PLs) | Grover Cleveland
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| 1890-1910 | David J. Brewer | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Benjamin Harrison
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| 1891-1906 | Henry B. Brown | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Benjamin Harrison
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| 1892-1903 | George Shiras, Jr. | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Benjamin Harrison
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| 1893-1895 | Howell E. Jackson | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Benjamin Harrison
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| 1896-1909 | Rufus W. Peckham | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Grover Cleveland
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| 1898-1925 | Joseph McKenna | Melville Fuller Court, Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court | (PLs) | William McKinley
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| 1902-1932 | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | Melville Fuller Court, Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1903-1922 | William R. Day | Melville Fuller Court, Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court | (PLs) | Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1906-1910 | William H. Moody | Melville Fuller Court | (PLs) | Theodore Roosevelt
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| 1910-1914 | Horace H. Lurton | Melville Fuller Court, Edward Douglas White Court | (PLs) | William H. Taft
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| 1911-1916 | Joseph Rucker Lamar | Edward Douglas White Court | (PLs) | William H. Taft
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| 1911-1937 | Willis Van Devanter | Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | William H. Taft
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| 1912-1922 | Mahlon Pitney | Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court | (PLs) | William H. Taft
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| 1914-1941 | James Clark McReynolds | Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Woodrow Wilson
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| 1916-1922 | John H. Clark | Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court | (PLs) | Woodrow Wilson
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| 1916-1939 | Louis D. Brandeis | Edward Douglas White Court, William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Woodrow Wilson
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| 1922-1938 | George Sutherland | William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Warren G. Harding
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| 1923-1930 | Edward T. Sanford | Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Warren G. Harding
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| 1923-1939 | Pierce Butler | William H. Taft Court, Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Warren G. Harding
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| 1930-1945 | Owen J. Roberts | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court | (PLs) | Herbert Hoover
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| 1932-1938 | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo | Charles Evans Hughes Court | (PLs) | Herbert Hoover
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| 1937-1971 | Hugo Black | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1938-1957 | Stanley F. Reed | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1939-1962 | Felix Frankfurter | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1939-1975 | William O. Douglas | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1940-1949 | Frank W. Murphy | Charles Evans Hughes Court, Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1941-1942 | James F. Byrnes | Harlan Fiske Stone Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1941-1954 | Robert H. Jackson | Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1943-1949 | Wiley B. Rutledge | Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court | (PLs) | Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| 1945-1958 | Harold H. Burton | Harlan Fiske Stone Court, Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Harry S. Truman
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| 1949-1956 | Sherman Minton | Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Harry S. Truman
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| 1949-1967 | Tom C. Clark | Fred M. Vinson Court, Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Harry S. Truman
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| 1955-1971 | John Marshall Harlan II | Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court | (PLs) | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| 1956-1990 | William J. Brennan, Jr. | Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court | (PLs) | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| 1957-1962 | Charles E. Whittaker | Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| 1958-1981 | Potter Stewart | Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court | (PLs) | Dwight D. Eisenhower
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| 1962-1965 | Arthur J. Goldberg | Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | John F. Kennedy
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| 1962-1993 | Byron R. White | Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court | (PLs) | John F. Kennedy
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| 1965-1969 | Abe Fortas | Earl Warren Court | (PLs) | Lyndon B. Johnson
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| 1967-1991 | Thurgood Marshall | Earl Warren Court, Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court | (PLs) | Lyndon B. Johnson
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| 1970-1994 | Harry A. Blackmun | Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court | (PLs) | Richard M. Nixon
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| 1972-1987 | Lewis F. Powell, Jr. | Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court | (PLs) | Richard M. Nixon
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| 1975-Present | John Paul Stevens | Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | Gerald R. Ford
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| 1981-2006 | Sandra Day O'Connor | Warren E. Burger Court, William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | Ronald Reagan
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| 1986-Present | Antonin Scalia | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | Ronald Reagan
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| 1988-Present | Anthony M. Kennedy | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | Ronald Reagan
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| 1990-Present | David H. Souter | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | George H.W. Bush
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| 1991-Present | Clarence Thomas | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | George H.W. Bush
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| 1993-Present | Ruth Bader Ginsburg | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | William Jefferson Clinton
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| 1994-Present | Steven G. Breyer | William H. Rehnquist Court, John Roberts Court | (PLs) | William Jefferson Clinton
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| 2006-Present | Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. | John Roberts Court | (PLs) | George W. Bush
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