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    • Timeline of the Justices – Chief Justices
      • John Jay, 1789-1795
      • John Rutledge, 1795
      • Oliver Ellsworth, 1796-1800
      • John Marshall, 1801-1835
      • Roger Brooke Taney, 1836-1864
      • Salmon Portland Chase, 1864-1873
      • Morrison R. Waite, 1874-1888
      • Melville Weston Fuller, 1888-1910
      • Edward Douglass White, 1910-1921
      • William Howard Taft, 1921-1930
      • Charles Evans Hughes, 1930-1941
      • Harlan Fiske Stone, 1941-1946
      • Fred M. Vinson, 1946-1953
      • Earl Warren, 1953-1969
      • Warren E. Burger, 1969-1986
      • William H. Rehnquist, 1986-2005
    • Timeline of the Justices – Associate Justices
      • 1789-1800
        • James Wilson, 1789-1798
        • William Cushing, 1790-1810
        • John Blair, Jr., 1790-1796
        • James Iredell, 1790-1799
        • Thomas Johnson, 1792-1793
        • William Paterson, 1793-1806
        • Samuel Chase, 1796-1811
        • Bushrod Washington, 1799-1829
        • Alfred Moore, 1800-1804
      • 1804-1835
        • William Johnson, 1804-1834
        • H. Brockholst Livingston, 1807-1823
        • Thomas Todd, 1807-1826
        • Gabriel Duvall, 1811-1835
        • Joseph Story, 1812-1845
        • Smith Thompson, 1823-1843
        • Robert Trimble, 1826-1828
        • John McLean, 1829-1861
        • Henry Baldwin, 1830-1844
        • James M. Wayne, 1835-1867
      • 1836-1858
        • Philip P. Barbour, 1836-1841
        • John Catron, 1837-1865
        • John McKinley, 1838-1852
        • Peter V. Daniel, 1842-1860
        • Samuel Nelson, 1845-1872
        • Levi Woodbury, 1845-1851
        • Robert C. Grier, 1846-1870
        • Benjamin R. Curtis, 1851-1857
        • John A. Campbell, 1853-1861
        • Nathan Clifford, 1858-1881
      • 1862-1881
        • Noah H. Swayne, 1862-1881
        • Samuel F. Miller, 1862-1890
        • David Davis, 1862-1877
        • Stephen J. Field, 1863-1897
        • William Strong, 1870-1880
        • Joseph P. Bradley, 1870-1892
        • Ward Hunt, 1873-1882
        • John Marshall Harlan, 1877-1911
        • William B. Woods, 1881-1887
        • Stanley Matthews, 1881-1889
      • 1882-1898
        • Horace Gray, 1882-1902
        • Samuel Blatchford, 1882-1893
        • Lucius Q. C. Lamar, 1888-1893
        • David J. Brewer, 1890-1910
        • Henry B. Brown, 1891-1906
        • George Shiras, Jr., 1892-1903
        • Howell E. Jackson, 1893-1895
        • Edward Douglass White, 1894-1910
        • Rufus W. Peckham, 1896-1909
        • Joseph McKenna, 1898-1925
      • 1902-1916
        • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 1902-1932
        • William R. Day, 1903-1922
        • Horace H. Lurton, 1910-1914
        • Charles Evans Hughes, 1910-1916
        • Willis Van Devanter, 1911-1937
        • William H. Moody, 1906-1910
        • Joseph Rucker Lamar, 1911-1916
        • Mahlon Pitney, 1912-1922
        • James Clark McReynolds, 1914-1941
        • Louis D. Brandeis, 1916-1939
        • John H. Clarke, 1916-1922
      • 1922-1940
        • George Sutherland, 1922-1938
        • Pierce Butler, 1923-1939
        • Edward T. Sanford, 1923-1930
        • Harlan Fiske Stone, 1925-1941
        • Owen J. Roberts, 1930-1945
        • Benjamin Nathan Cardozo, 1932-1938
        • Hugo Black, 1937-1971
        • Stanley F. Reed, 1938-1957
        • Felix Frankfurter, 1939-1962
        • William O. Douglas, 1939-1975
        • Frank W. Murphy, 1940-1949
      • 1941-1962
        • James F. Byrnes, 1941-1942
        • Robert H. Jackson, 1941-1954
        • Wiley B. Rutledge, 1943-1949
        • Harold H. Burton, 1945-1958
        • Tom C. Clark, 1949-1967
        • Sherman Minton, 1949-1956
        • John Marshall Harlan II, 1955-1971
        • William J. Brennan, Jr., 1956-1990
        • Charles E. Whittaker, 1957-1962
        • Potter Stewart, 1958-1981
        • Byron R. White, 1962-1993
        • Arthur J. Goldberg, 1962-1965
      • 1965-Current
        • Abe Fortas, 1965-1969
        • Thurgood Marshall, 1967-1991
        • Harry A. Blackmun, 1970-1994
        • Lewis F. Powell, Jr., 1972-1987
        • John Paul Stevens, 1975-2010
        • Sandra Day O’Connor, 1981-2006
        • Antonin Scalia, 1986 – 2016
        • Anthony M. Kennedy, 1988 – 2018
        • David H. Souter, 1990-2009
        • Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, 1993-2020
    • The Current Court
      • Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr.
      • Justice Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr.
      • Justice Amy Coney Barrett
      • Justice Stephen G. Breyer
      • Justice Neil M. Gorsuch
      • Justice Elena Kagan
      • Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh
      • Justice Sonia Sotomayor
      • Justice Clarence Thomas
    • History of the Courts
      • The Jay Court, 1789-1795
      • The Rutledge Court, 1795
      • The Ellsworth Court, 1796-1800
      • The Marshall Court, 1801-1835
      • The Taney Court, 1836-1864
      • The Chase Court, 1864-1873
      • The Waite Court, 1874-1888
      • The Fuller Court, 1888-1910
      • The Taft Court, 1921-1930
      • The White Court, 1910-1921
      • The Hughes Court, 1930-1941
      • The Stone Court, 1941-1946
      • The Vinson Court, 1946-1953
      • The Warren Court, 1953-1969
      • The Burger Court, 1969-1986
      • The Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005
    • FDR and the Courtpacking Controversy
      • Lesson Plan: Basic High School
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    • The Supreme Court and the 1876 Election
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    • Text Books: We The Students
      • Vernonia School District v. Acton
      • Sante Fe Independent School District v. Doe
      • West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette
    • Text Books: Supreme Court Decisions & Women’s Rights – Milestones to Equality
      • Introduction – Interpreting the Equal Protection Clause
      • Breaking New Ground – Reed v. Reed, 404 U.S. 71 (1971)
      • A Double Standard for Benefits – Frontiero v. Richardson, 411 U.S. 677 (1973)
      • Justice for Beer Drinkers – Craig v. Boren, 429 U.S. 190 (1976)
      • The Most Recent Standard – United States v. Virginia, 518 U.S. 515 (1996)
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    • Learning Center – Lesson Plans
      • The Challenge of Selecting an Ideal Supreme Court Nominee Government Lesson Plan
      • Nominating Federal Judges Lesson Plan AP US Government & Politics
      • Interest Groups and the United States Supreme Court
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