Supreme Court of the United States/Catalogs/Justices
Beginning dates reflect confirmation rather than the date of the oath of office.
Appointing Presidents | Chief Justices | Associate Justices |
---|---|---|
George Washington | John Jay (1789-1795) John Rutledge (1795-1795) |
John Rutledge (1789-1791; later Chief Justice) William Cushing (1789-1810) |
John Adams | John Marshall (1801-1836) | Bushrod Washington (1798-1829) Alfred Moore (1799-1804) |
Thomas Jefferson | William Johnson (1804-1834) Henry Brockholst Livingston (1806-1823) | |
James Madison | Gabriel Duvall (1811-1835) Joseph Story (1811-1845) | |
James Monroe | Smith Thompson (1823-1843) | |
John Quincy Adams | Robert Trimble (1826-1828) | |
Andrew Jackson | Roger Brooke Taney (1836-1864) | John McLean (1829-1861) Henry Baldwin (1830-1844) |
Martin Van Buren | John McKinley (1837-1852) Peter V. Daniel (1841-1860) | |
John Tyler | Samuel Nelson (1845-1872) | |
James K. Polk | Levi Woodbury (1845-1851) Robert C. Grier (1846-1870) | |
Millard Fillmore | Benjamin R. Curtis (1851-1857) | |
Franklin Pierce | John A. Campbell (1853-1861) | |
James Buchanan | Nathan Clifford (1858-1881) | |
Abraham Lincoln | Salmon P. Chase (1864-1874) | Noah H. Swayne (1862-1881) Samuel F. Miller (1862-1890) |
Ulysses S. Grant | Morrison R. Waite (1874-1888) | William Strong (1870-1880) Joseph P. Bradley (1870-1892) |
Rutherford B. Hayes | John Marshall Harlan (1877-1911) William B. Woods (1880-1887) | |
James A. Garfield | Stanley Matthews (1881-1889) | |
Chester A. Arthur | Horace Gray (1881-1902)
Samuel Blatchford (1882-1893) | |
Grover Cleveland (first term) | Melville W. Fuller (1888-1910) | Lucius Q.C. Lamar (1888-1893) |
Benjamin Harrison | David J. Brewer (1889-1910) Henry B. Brown (1890-1906) | |
Grover Cleveland (second term) | Edward Douglass White (1894-1910; then Chief Justice) Rufus W. Peckham (1895-1909) | |
William McKinley | Joseph McKenna (1898) | |
Theodore Roosevelt | Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1902-1932) William R. Day (1903-1922) | |
William Howard Taft | Edward Douglass White (1910-1921) | Horace H. Lurton (1909-1914) Charles Evans Hughes (1910-1916; later Chief Justice) |
Woodrow Wilson | James C. McReynolds (1914-1914) Louis D. Brandeis (1916-1939) | |
Warren G. Harding | William Howard Taft (1921-1930) | George Sutherland (1922-1938) Pierce Butler (1922-1939) |
Calvin Coolidge | Harlan Fiske Stone (1925-1941; then Chief Justice) | |
Herbert Hoover | Charles Evan Hughes (1930-1941) | Owen J. Roberts (1930-1945) Benjamin N. Cardozo (1932-1938) |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | Harlan Fiske Stone (1941-1946) | Hugo L. Black (1937-1971) Stanley Forman Reed (1938-1957) |
Harry S. Truman | Fred M. Vinson (1946-1953) | Harold H. Burton (1945-1958) Thomas C. Clark (1949-1967) |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | Earl Warren (1953-1969) | John Marshall Harlan (1955) William J. Brennan, Jr. (1956-1990) |
John F. Kennedy | Byron R. White (1962-1992) Arthur J. Goldberg (1962-1965) | |
Lyndon B. Johnson | Abe Fortas (1965-1969) Thurgood Marshall (1967-1991) | |
Richard M. Nixon | Warren E. Burger (1969-1986) | Harry A. Blackmun (1970-1994) Lewis F. Powell, Jr. (1971-1987) |
Gerald R. Ford | John Paul Stevens (1975-present) | |
Ronald Reagan | William H. Rehnquist (1986-2005) | Sandra Day O'Connor (1981-2006) Antonin Scalia (1986-present) |
George H.W. Bush | David H. Souter (1990-2009) Clarence Thomas (1991-present) | |
Bill Clinton | Ruth Bader Ginsburg (1993-present) Stephen G. Breyer (1994-present) | |
George W. Bush | John G. Roberts, Jr. (2005-present) | Samuel Alito (2006-present) |
Barack Obama | Sonia Sotomayor (2009-present) |