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Past Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
In order to become a Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States, an individual must be nominated by the President of the United States and approved by the Senate, with at least half of that body approving in the affirmative. Generally, a justice's qualifications are judged by the President and, most visibly, by a Senate hearing. There is no definitive qualification of age or experience that is a standard to be met; instead is a much more subjective process taken by the Senate, occasionally resulting in a sometimes controversial defeat of Presidential nominees. The following list consists of past Supreme Court Justices since 1789 placed in the order in which they took the judicial oath of office. Name StateAssociate JusticeAppointed By Chief Justice James Wilson PA Oct 5, 1789 - AugWashington 21, 1798 John Jay NY Washington Oct 19, 1789 - Jun 29, 1795 William Cushing MA Feb 2, 1790 - SepWashington 13, 1810 John Blair VA Feb 2, 1790 - OctWashington 25, 1795 John Rutledge SC Feb 15, 1790 - Washington Mar 5, 1791 James Iredell NC May 12, 1790 - Washington Oct 20, 1799 Thomas Johnson MD Aug 6, 1792 - JanWashington 16, 1793 William Paterson NJ Mar 11, 1793 - Washington Sep 9, 1806 John Rutledge SC Washington Aug 12, 1795 - Dec 15, 1795 Samuel Chase MD Feb 4, 1796 - JunWashington 19, 1811 Oliver Ellsworth CT Washington Mar 8, 1796 - Dec 15, 1800 Bushrod Washington VA Feb 4, 1799 - NovAdams 26, 1829 Alfred Moore NC Apr 21, 1800 - Adams Jan 26, 1804 John Marshall VA Adams Feb 4, 1801 - Jul 6, 1835 William Johnson SC May 7, 1804 - AugJefferson 4, 1834 Henry Brockholst NY Jan 20, 1807 - Jefferson Livingston Mar 18, 1823 Thomas Todd KY May 4, 1807 - FebJefferson 7, 1826 Gabriel Duvall MD Nov 23, 1811 - Madison Jan 14, 1835 Joseph Story MA Feb 3, 1812 - SepMadison 10, 1845 Smith Thompson NY Dec 9, 1823 - DecMonroe 18, 1843 Robert Trimble KY Jun 16, 1826 - J. 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Adams Aug 25, 1828 John McLean OH Jan 11, 1830 - Jackson Apr 4, 1861 Henry Baldwin PA Jan 18, 1830 - Jackson Apr 21, 1844 James Moore Wayne GA Jan 14, 1835 - Jackson Jul 5, 1867 Roger Brooke Taney MD Jackson Mar 28, 1836 - Oct 12, 1864 Philip Pendleton VA May 12, 1836 - Jackson Barbour Feb 25, 1841 John Catron TN May 1, 1837 - MayVan Buren 30, 1865 John McKinley AL Jan 9, 1838 - JulVan Buren 19, 1852 Peter Vivian Daniel VA Jan 10, 1842 - Van Buren May 31, 1860 Samuel Nelson NY Feb 27, 1845 - Tyler Nov 28, 1872 Levi Woodbury NH Sep 23, 1845 - Polk Sep 4, 1851 Robert Cooper Grier PA Aug 10, 1846 - Polk Jan 31, 1870 Benjamin Robbins MA Oct 10, 1851 - Fillmore Curtis Sep 30, 1857 John Archibald AL Apr 11, 1853 - Pierce Campbell Apr 30, 1861 Nathan Clifford ME Jan 21, 1858 - Buchanan Jul 25, 1881 Noah Haynes Swayne OH Jan 27, 1862 - Lincoln Jan 24, 1881 Samuel Freeman Miller IA Jul 21, 1862 - Lincoln Oct 13, 1890 David Davis IL Dec 10, 1862 - Lincoln Mar 4, 1877 Stephen Johnson Field CA May 20, 1863 - Lincoln Dec 1, 1897 Salmon Portland Chase OH Lincoln Dec 15, 1864 - May 7, 1873 William Strong PA Mar 15, 1870 - U. S. Grant Dec 14, 1880 Joseph Philo Bradley NJ Mar 23, 1870 - U. S. Grant Jan 22, 1892 Ward Hunt NY Jan 9, 1873 - JanU. S. Grant 27, 1882 Morrison Remick Waite OH U. S. Grant Mar 4, 1874 - Mar 23, 1888 John Marshall Harlan KY Dec 10, 1877 - Hayes Oct 14, 1911 William Burnham Woods GA Jan 5, 1881 - MayHayes 14, 1887 Thomas Stanley OH May 17, 1881 - James Garfield Matthews Mar 22, 1889 Horace Gray MA Jan 9, 1882 - SepArthur 15, 1902 Samuel Blatchford NY Apr 3, 1882 - JulArthur 7, 1893 Lucius Quintus MS Jan 18, 1888 - Grover Cincinnatus Lamar Jan 23, 1893 Cleveland Melville Weston FullerIL Grover Oct 8, 1888 - Cleveland Jul 4, 1910 David Josiah Brewer KS Jan 6, 1890 - MarHarrison 28, 1910 Henry Billings Brown MI Jan 5, 1891 - MayHarrison 28, 1906 George Shiras, Jr. PA Oct 10, 1892 - Harrison Feb 23, 1903 Howell Edmunds JacksonTN Mar 14, 1893 - Harrison Aug 8, 1895 Edward Douglass White LA Mar 12, 1894 - Cleveland Dec 18, 1910 Rufus Wheeler Peckham NY Jan 6, 1896 - OctCleveland 24, 1909 Joseph McKenna CA Jan 26, 1898 - McKinley Jan 5, 1925 Oliver Wendell Holmes MA Dec 8, 1902 - JanRoosevelt Jr. 12, 1932 William Rufus Day OH Mar 2, 1903 - NovRoosevelt 13, 1922 William Henry Moody MA Dec 17, 1906 - Roosevelt Nov 20, 1910 Horace Harmon Lurton TN Jan 3, 1910 - JulTaft 12, 1914 Charles Evans Hughes NY Oct 10, 1910 - Taft Jun 10, 1916 Edward Douglass White LA Taft Dec 19, 1910 - May 19, 1921 Willis Van Devanter WY Jan 3, 1911 - JunTaft 2, 1937 Joseph Rucker Lamar GA Jan 3, 1911 - JanTaft 2, 1916 Mahlon Pitney NJ Mar 18, 1912 - Taft Dec 31, 1922 James Clark McReynoldsTN Oct 12, 1914 - Wilson Jan 31, 1941 Louis Dembitz BrandeisMA Jun 5, 1916 - FebWilson 13, 1939 John Hessin Clarke OH Oct 9, 1916 - SepWilson 18, 1922 William Howard Taft OH Harding Jul 11, 1921 - Feb 3, 1930 George Sutherland UT Oct 2, 1922 - JanHarding 17, 1938 Pierce Butler MN Jan 2, 1923 - NovHarding 16, 1939 Edward Terry Sanford TN Feb 19, 1923 - Harding Mar 8, 1930 Harlan Fiske Stone NY Mar 2, 1925 - JulCoolidge 2, 1941 Charles Evans Hughes NY Hoover Feb 24, 1930 - Jun 30, 1941 Owen Josephus Roberts PA Jun 2, 1930 - JulHoover 31, 1945 Benjamin Nathan NY Mar 31, 1932 - Hoover Cardozo Jul 9, 1938 Hugo LaFayette Black AL Aug 19, 1937 - F. D. Roosevelt Sep 17, 1971 Stanley Forman Reed KY Jan 31, 1938 - F. D. Roosevelt Feb 25, 1957 Felix Frankfurter MA Jan 30, 1939 - F. D. Roosevelt Aug 28, 1962 William Orville CT Apr 17, 1939 - F. D. Roosevelt Douglas Nov 12, 1975 Francis William MurphyMI Feb 5, 1940 - JulF. D. Roosevelt 19, 1949 Harlan Fiske Stone NY F. D. RooseveltJul 3, 1941 - Apr 22, 1946 James Francis Byrnes SC Jul 8, 1941 - OctF. D. Roosevelt 3, 1942 Robert Houghwout NY Jul 11, 1941 - F. D. Roosevelt Jackson Oct 9, 1954 Wiley Blount Rutledge IA Feb 15, 1943 - F. D. Roosevelt Sep 10, 1949 Harold Hitz Burton OH Oct 1, 1945 - OctTruman 13, 1958 Frederick Moore VinsonKY Truman Jun 24, 1946 - Sep 8, 1953 Thomas Campbell Clark TX Aug 24, 1949 - Truman Jun 12, 1967 Sherman Minton IN Oct 12, 1949 - Truman Oct 15, 1956 Earl Warren CA Eisenhower Oct 5, 1953 - Jun 23, 1969 John Marshall Harlan NY Mar 28, 1955 - Eisenhower II Sep 23, 1971 William Joseph BrennanNJ Oct 16, 1956 - Eisenhower Jul 20, 1990 Charles Evans MO Mar 25, 1957 - Eisenhower Whittaker Mar 31, 1962 Potter Stewart OH Oct 14, 1958 - Eisenhower Jul 3, 1981 Byron Raymond White CO Apr 16, 1962 - Kennedy Jun 28, 1993 Arthur Joseph GoldbergIL Oct 1, 1962 - JulKennedy 25, 1965 Abe Fortas TN Oct 4, 1965 - MayJohnson 14, 1969 Thurgood Marshall NY Oct 2, 1967 - OctJohnson 1, 1991 Warren Earl Burger VA Nixon Jun 23, 1969 - Sep 26, 1986 Harry Andrew Blackmun MN Jun 9, 1970 - AugNixon 3, 1994 Lewis Franklin Powell,VA Jan 7, 1972 - JunNixon Jr. 26, 1987 William Hubbs AZ Jan 7, 1972 - SepNixon Rehnquist 26, 1986 John Paul Stevens IL Dec 19, 1975 Ford Sandra Day O'Connor AZ Sep 25, 1981 Reagan William Hubbs AZ Reagan Sep 26, 1986 - Rehnquist Antonin Scalia VA Sep 26, 1986 Reagan Anthony McLeod KennedyCA Feb 18, 1988 Reagan David Hackett Souter NH Oct 9, 1990 G. H. W. Bush Clarence Thomas GA Oct 23, 1991 G. H. W. Bush Ruth Joan Bader NY Aug 10, 1993 Clinton Ginsburg Stephen Gerald Breyer MA Aug 3, 1994 Clinton