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Supreme Court Nominations

President Washington’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Commission

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John Jay

12/12/1745

New Seat

9/26/1789

10/19/1789

6/29/1795

John Rutledge

9/1739

New Seat

9/26/1789

2/15/1790

3/5/1791

William Barker Cushing

3/1/1732

New Seat

9/27/1789

2/2/1790

9/13/1810

Robert Hanson Harrison

1745

New Seat

9/24/1789

9/26/1789 D

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James Wilson

Scotland

9/14/1742

New Seat

9/29/1789

10/5/1789

8/21/1798

John Blair, Jr.

1732

New Seat

9/30/1789

2/2/1790

10/25/1795

James Iredell, Jr.

Great Britain

10/5/1751

Harrison

2/10/1790

5/12/1790

10/20/1799

Thomas Johnson

11/4/1732

Rutledge

8/5/1791

9/19/1791

1/16/1793

William Paterson

Ireland

12/24/1745

Johnson

3/4/1793

3/11/1793

9/9/1806

John Rutledge°

—

Jay

7/1/1795

8/12/1795 R

12/15/1795 R

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William Cushing°

—

Jay

1/26/1796

1/27/1796 D

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Samuel Chase

4/17/1741

Blair

1/27/1796

2/4/1796

6/19/1811

Oliver Ellsworth

4/29/1745

Jay

3/4/1796

3/8/1796

12/15/1800

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President Adams’ Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Bushrod Washington

6/5/1762

Wilson

9/29/1798

11/9/1798

11/26/1829

Alfred Moore

5/21/1755

Iredell

12/10/1799

4/21/1800

1/26/1804

John Jay°

—

Ellsworth

12/18/1800

12/19/1800 D

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John Marshall

9/24/1755

Ellsworth

1/31/1801

2/4/1801

7/6/1835

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President Jefferson’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

William Johnson

12/27/1771

Moore

3/26/1804

5/7/1804

8/4/1834

Henry Brockholst Livingston

11/25/1757

Paterson

11/10/1806

1/20/1807

3/18/1823

Thomas Todd

1/23/1765

New Seat

3/3/1807

5/4/1807

2/7/1826

President Madison’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Levi Lincoln, Jr.

5/15/1749

Cushing

1/2/1811

1/3/1811 D

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Alexander Humphreys Wolcott

9/15/1758

Cushing

2/4/1811

2/13/1811 R

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John Quincy Adams

7/11/1767

Cushing

2/21/1811

2/22/1811 D

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Joseph Story

9/18/1779

Cushing

11/18/1811

2/3/1812

9/10/1845

Gabriel Duvall

12/6/1752

Chase

11/18/1811

11/23/1811

1/14/1835

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President Monroe’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Smith Thompson

1/17/1768

Livingston

9/1/1823

12/18/1843

President J.Q. Adams’ Nominees

Name

State

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Robert Trimble

11/17/1776

Todd

5/9/1826

6/16/1826

8/25/1828

John Jordan Crittenden

9/10/1787

Trimble

12/17/1828

2/12/1829 R

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President Jackson‘s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John McLean

3/11/1785

Trimble

3/7/1829

3/12/1829

4/4/1861

Henry Baldwin

1/14/1780

Washington

1/6/1830

1/18/1830

4/21/1844

James Moore Wayne

1790

Johnson

1/9/1835

1/14/1835

7/5/1867

Roger Brooke Taney

3/17/1777

Duvall

1/15/1835

3/3/1835 R

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Roger B. Taney

—

Marshall

3/15/1836

3/28/1836

10/12/1864

Philip Pendleton Barbour

5/25/1783

Duvall

3/15/1836

5/12/1836

2/25/1841

William Smith

1762

New Seat

3/3/1837

3/8/1837 D

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John Catron

1786

New Seat

3/8/1837

5/1/1837

5/30/1865

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President Van Buren’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John McKinley

5/1/1780

New Seat

9/25/1837

1/9/1838

7/19/1852

Peter Vivian Daniel

4/24/1784

Barbour

3/3/1841

1/10/1842

5/31/1860

President Tyler’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John Canfield Spencer

1/8/1788

Thompson

1/9/1844

1/31/1844 R

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Reuben Hyde Walworth

10/26/1788

Thompson

3/13/1844

6/17/1844 W

—

Edward King

1/31/1794

Baldwin

6/5/1844

6/15/1844 P

—

Edward King°

—

Baldwin

12/4/1844

2/7/1845 W

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Samuel Nelson

11/10/1792

Thompson

3/13/1845

2/27/1845

11/28/1872

John Meredith Read

2/21/1797

Baldwin

2/7/1845

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President Polk’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

George Washington Woodward

3/26/1809

Baldwin

12/23/1845

1/22/1846 R

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Levi Woodbury

12/22/1789

Story

9/20/1845

9/23/1845

9/4/1851

Robert Cooper Grier

3/5/1794

Baldwin

8/4/1846

8/10/1846

1/31/1870

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President Fillmore’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

11/4/1809

Woodbury

9/22/1851

10/10/1851

9/30/1857

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Edward Anthony Bradford

9/27/1813

McKinley

8/16/1852

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George Edmund Badger

4/13/1795

McKinley

1/10/1853

2/11/1853 R

—

William C. Micou

1806

McKinley

2/24/1853

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President Pierce’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John Archibald Campbell

6/24/1811

McKinley

3/22/1853

4/11/1853

4/30/1861

President Buchanan’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Nathan Clifford

8/18/1803

Curtis

1/12/1858

1/21/1858

7/25/1881

Jeremiah Sullivan Black

1/10/1810

Daniel

2/5/1861

2/21/1861 R

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President Lincoln’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Noah Haynes Swayne

12/7/1804

McLean

1/24/1862

1/27/1862

1/24/1881

Samuel Freeman Miller

4/5/1816

Daniel

7/16/1862

7/21/1862

10/13/1890

David Davis

3/9/1815

Campbell

12/8/1862

12/10/1862

3/4/1877

Stephen Johnson Field

11/4/1816

New Seat

3/10/1863

5/20/1863

12/1/1897

Salmon Portland Chase

1/13/1808

Taney

12/6/1864

12/15/1864

5/7/1873

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President Johnson’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Henry Stanbery

2/20/1803

Catron

4/16/1866

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President Grant’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Ebenezer Rockwood Hoar

2/21/1816

New Seat

12/15/1869

2/3/1870 R

—

Edwin McMasters Stanton

12/19/1814

Grier

12/20/1869

12/24/1869

—

William Strong

5/6/1808

Grier

2/18/1870

3/14/1870

12/14/1880

Joseph B. Bradley

3/14/1813

New Seat

3/21/1870

3/23/1870

1/22/1892

Ward Hunt

6/14/1810

Nelson

12/11/1872

1/9/1873

1/27/1882

George Henry Williams

3/23/1823

Chase

12/1/1873

1/8/1874 W

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Caleb Cushing

1/17/1800

Chase

1/9/1874

1/13/1874 W

—

Morrison Remick Waite

11/29/1816

Chase

1/21/1874

3/4/1874

3/23/1888

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President Hayes’ Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John Marshall Harlan

6/1/1833

Davis

11/29/1877

12/10/1877

10/14/1911

William Burnham Woods

8/3/1824

Strong

11/21/1880

1/5/1881

5/14/1887

Stanley Matthews

7/21/1824

Swayne

1/24/1881

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President Garfield’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Thomas Stanley Matthews

—

Swayne

5/12/1881

5/17/1881

3/22/1889

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President Arthur’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Horace Gray

3/24/1828

Clifford

12/20/1881

1/9/1882

9/15/1902

Roscoe Conkling

10/30/1829

Hunt

2/24/1882

3/2/1882 D

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Samuel Blatchford

3/9/1820

Hunt

3/22/1882

4/3/1882

7/7/1893

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President Cleveland’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar

9/17/1825

Woods

1/16/1888

1/18/1888

1/23/1893

Melville Weston Fuller

2/11/1833

Waite

7/20/1888

10/8/1888

7/4/1910

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President Harrison’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

David Josiah Brewer

Asia Minor

6/20/1837

Matthews

12/18/1889

1/6/1890

3/28/1910

Henry Billings Brown

3/2/1836

Miller

12/29/1890

1/5/1891

5/28/1906

George Shiras, Jr.

1/26/1832

Bradley

7/26/1892

10/10/1892

2/23/1903

Howell Edmunds Jackson

4/8/1832

Lamar

2/18/1893

3/4/1893

8/8/1895

President Cleveland’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

William Butler Hornblower

5/13/1851

Blatchford

9/19/1893

1/15/1894 R

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Wheeler Hazard Peckham

1/1/1833

Blatchford

1/22/1894

2/16/1894 R

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Edward Douglass White

11/3/1845

Blatchford

2/19/1894

3/12/1894

12/18/1910

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

11/8/1838

Jackson

12/9/1895

1/6/1896

10/24/1909

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President McKinley’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Joseph McKenna

8/10/1843

Field

1/21/1898

1/26/1898

1/5/1925

President T. Roosevelt’s Nominees

Name

State

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

3/8/1841

Gray

12/4/1902

12/8/1902

1/12/1932

William Rufus Day

4/17/1849

Shiras

2/23/1903

3/2/1903

11/13/1922

William Henry Moody

12/23/1853

Brown

12/12/1906

12/17/1906

11/20/1910

President Taft’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Horace Harmon Lurton

2/26/1844

Peckham

12/20/1909

1/3/1910

7/12/1914

Charles Evans Hughes

4/11/1862

Brewer

5/2/1910

10/10/1910

6/10/1916

Edward Douglas White°

—

Fuller

12/12/1910

12/19/1910

5/19/1921

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Willis Van Devanter

4/17/1859

White

12/16/1910

1/3/1911

6/2/1937

Joseph Rucker Lamar

10/14/1857

Moody

12/17/1910

1/3/1911

1/2/1916

Mahlon Pitney

2/5/1858

Harlan

3/1931912

3/18/1912

12/31/1922

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President Wilson’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

James Clark McReynolds

2/3/1862

Lurton

8/29/1914

10/12/1914

1/31/1941

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

11/13/1856

Lamar

6/1/1916

6/5/1916

2/13/1939

John Hessin Clarke

9/18/1857

Hughes

7/24/1916

10/9/1916

9/18/1922

President Harding’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

William Howard Taft

9/15/1857

White

6/30/1921

7/11/1921

2/3/1930

George Sutherland

Great Britain

3/25/1862

Clarke

9/5/1922

10/2/1922

1/17/1938

Pierce Butler

3/17/1866

Day

12/21/1922

1/2/1923

11/16/1939

Edward Terry Sanford

7/23/1865

Pitney

1/29/1923

2/19/1923

3/8/1930

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President Coolidge’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Harlan Fiske Stone

10/11/1872

McKenna

2/5/1925

3/2/1925

7/2/1941

President Hoover’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Charles Evans Hughes°

—

Taft

2/13/1930

2/24/1930

6/30/1941

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John Johnston Parker

11/20/1885

Sanford

3/21/1930

5/7/1930 R

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Owen Josephus Roberts

5/2/1875

Sanford

5/20/1930

6/2/1930

7/31/1945

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

5/24/1870

Holmes

3/2/1932

3/14/1932

7/9/1938

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President Roosevelt’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Hugo Lafayette Black

2/27/1886

Van Devanter

8/1281937

8/19/1937

9/17/1971

Stanley Forman Reed

12/31/1884

Sutherland

1/27/1938

1/31/1938

2/25/1957

Felix Frankfurter

Austria

11/15/1882

Cardozo

1/20/1939

1/30/1939

8/28/1962

William Orville Douglas

10/16/1898

Brandeis

4/215939

4/17/1939

11/12/1975

Frank Murphy

4/13/1890

Butler

1/18/1940

2/5/1940

7/19/1949

Harlan Fiske Stone°

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Hughes

7/3/1941

4/22/1946

James Francis Byrnes

5/2/1879

McReynolds

6/25/1941

7/8/1941

10/3/1942

Robert Houghwout Jackson

2/13/1892

Stone

7/11/1941

7/7/1941

10/9/1954

Wiley Blount Rutledge

7/20/1894

Byrnes

2/11/1943

2/15/1943

9/10/1949

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President Truman’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Harold Hitz Burton

6/22/1888

Roberts

9/22/1945

10/1/1945

10/13/1958

Fred Moore Vinson

1/22/1890

Stone

6/21/1946

6/24/1946

9/8/1953

Thomas Campbell Clark

9/23/1899

Murphy

8/19/1949

8/24/1949

6/12/1967

Sherman Minton

10/20/1890

Rutledge

10/5/1949

10/12/1949

10/15/1956

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President Eisenhower’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Earl Warren

3/19/1891

Vinson

10/2/1953

10/5/1953

6/23/1969

John Marshall Harlan

5/20/1899

Jackson

3/17/1955

3/28/1955

9/23/1971

William Joseph Brennan Jr.

4/25/1906

Minton

10/15/1956

10/16/1957

7/20/1990

Charles Evans Whittaker

2/22/1901

Reed

3/22/1957

3/25/1957

3/31/1962

Potter Stewart

1/23/1915

Burton

10/14/1958

7/3/1981

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President Kennedy’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Byron Raymond White

6/8/1917

Whittaker

4/12/1962

4/16/1962

6/28/1993

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

8/8/1908

Frankfurter

9/28/1962

10/1/1962

7/25/1965

President Johnson’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Abe Fortas

6/19/1910

Goldberg

8/11/1965

10/4/1965

5/14/1969

Thurgood Marshall

7/2/1908

Clark

8/30/1967

10/2/1967

6/27/1991

Abe Fortas

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Warren

6/26/1968

10/4/1968 W

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Homer Thornberry

1/9/1909

Fortas

6/26/1968

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President Nixon’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Warren Earl Burger

9/17/1907

Warren

6/23/1969

9/26/1986

Clement Haynesworth Jr.

10/30/1912

Fortas

8/18/1969

11/21/1969 R

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George Harrold Carswell

12/22/1919

Fortas

1/19/1970

4/8/1970 R

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Harry Andrew Blackmun

11/12/1908

Fortas

5/12/1970

6/9/1970

8/3/1994

Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.

9/19/1907

Black

12/9/1971

1/7/1972

6/26/1987

William Hubbs Rehnquist

10/1/1924

Harlan

12/15/1971

1/7/1972

9/26/1986

President Ford’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

John Paul Stevens

4/20/1920

Douglas

12/17/1975

12/19/1975

6/29/2010

President Reagan’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Sandra Day O’Connor

3/26/1930

Stewart

9/22/1981

9/25/1981

1/31/2006

William Hubbs Rehnquist °

—

Burger

6/20/1986

9/26/1986

9/3/2005

Antonin Scalia

3/11/1936

Rehnquist

9/25/1986

9/26/1986

Sitting

—

Robert Heron Bork

3/1/1927

Powell

7/1/1987

10/23/1987 R

—

Douglas Howard Ginsburg

5/25/46

Powell

10/27/87

11/7/87 W

—

Anthony McLeod Kennedy

7/23/1936

Powell

2/11/1988

2/18/1988

Sitting

—

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President G. H. W. Bush’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

David Hackett Souter

9/17/1939

Brennan

10/3/1990

10/291990

6/29/2009

Clarence Thomas

6/23/1948

Marshall, T.

10/16/1991

10/23/1991

Sitting

—

President Clinton’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

3/15/1933

White, B.

8/5/1993

8/10/1993

Sitting

—

Stephen Gerald Breyer

8/15/1938

Blackmun

8/2/1994

8/3/1994

Sitting

—

President G. W. Bush’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Harriet Ellan Miers

8/10/1945

O’Connor

10/3/2005

10/27/2005 W

—

John Glover Roberts, Jr.

1/27/1955

Rehnquist.

9/5/2005

9/29/2005

Sitting

—

Samuel Anthony Alito

4/1/1950

O’Connor

1/31/2006

Sitting

—

President Obama’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Sonia Sotomayor

6/25/1954

Souter

8/6/2009

9/8/2009

Sitting

—

Elena Kagan

4/28/1960

Stevens

8/6/2010

8/7/2010

Sitting

—

Merrick Garland

11/13/1952

Scalia

3/16/2016

—

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President Trump’s Nominees

Name

Place of Birth

Date of Birth

To Replace

Date of Appointment

Judicial Oath Taken

Date Service Ended

Years of Service

Neil Gorsuch

8/29/1967

Scalia

2/1/2017

4/10/2017

Sitting

—

Brett Kavanaugh

2/12/1965

Kennedy

10/6/2018

Sitting

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