The Justices

Appointed by  George Washington (1789 - 1797)John Adams (1797 - 1801)Thomas Jefferson (1801 - 1809)James Madison (1809 - 1817)James Monroe (1817 - 1825)John Quincy Adams (1825 - 1829)Andrew Jackson (1829 - 1837)Martin Van Buren (1837 - 1841)William Henry Harrison (1841 - 1841)John Tyler (1841 - 1845)James K. Polk (1845 - 1849)Zachary Taylor (1849 - 1850)Millard Fillmore (1850 - 1853)Franklin Pierce (1853 - 1857)James Buchanan (1857 - 1861)Abraham Lincoln (1861 - 1865)Andrew Johnson (1865 - 1869)Ulysses S. Grant (1869 - 1877)Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 - 1881)James A. Garfield (1881 - 1881)Chester A. Arthur (1881 - 1885)Grover Cleveland I (1885 - 1889)Benjamin Harrison (1889 - 1893)Grover Cleveland II (1893 - 1897)William McKinley (1897 - 1901)Theodore Roosevelt (1901 - 1909)William Howard Taft (1909 - 1913)Woodrow Wilson (1913 - 1921)Warren G. Harding (1921 - 1923)Calvin Coolidge (1923 - 1929)Herbert Hoover (1929 - 1933)Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933 - 1945)Harry S. Truman (1945 - 1953)Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953 - 1961)John F. Kennedy (1961 - 1963)Lyndon B. Johnson (1963 - 1969)Richard Nixon (1969 - 1974)Gerald Ford (1974 - 1977)Jimmy Carter (1977 - 1981)Ronald Reagan (1981 - 1989)George H. W. Bush (1989 - 1993)Bill Clinton (1993 - 2001)George W. Bush (2001 - 2009)Barack Obama (2009 - 2017)Donald Trump (2017 - 2021)Joe Biden (2021 - Present)

1. President George Washington

   (1789 - 1797)

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   • Justice
     James Wilson

     (1789 - 1798)

   • Chief Justice
     John Jay

     (1789 - 1795)

   • Justice
     John Blair

     (1790 - 1795)

   • Justice
     William Cushing

     (1790 - 1810)

   • Justice
     John Rutledge

     (1790 - 1791)

   • Justice
     James Iredell

     (1790 - 1799)

   • Justice
     Thomas Johnson

     (1792 - 1793)

   • Justice
     William Paterson

     (1793 - 1806)

   • Chief Justice
     John Rutledge

     (1795 - 1795)

   • Justice
     Samuel Chase

     (1796 - 1811)

   • Chief Justice
     Oliver Ellsworth

     (1796 - 1800)

2. President John Adams

   (1797 - 1801)

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   • Justice
     Bushrod Washington

     (1799 - 1829)

   • Justice
     Alfred Moore

     (1800 - 1806)

   • Chief Justice
     John Marshall

     (1801 - 1835)

3. President Thomas Jefferson

   (1801 - 1809)

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   • Justice
     William Johnson

     (1804 - 1834)

   • Justice
     Henry Brockholst Livingston

     (1807 - 1823)

   • Justice
     Thomas Todd

     (1807 - 1826)

4. President James Madison

   (1809 - 1817)

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   • Justice
     Gabriel Duvall

     (1811 - 1835)

   • Justice
     Joseph Story

     (1812 - 1845)

5. President James Monroe

   (1817 - 1825)

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   • Justice
     Smith Thompson

     (1823 - 1843)

6. President John Quincy Adams

   (1825 - 1829)

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   • Justice
     Robert Trimble

     (1826 - 1828)

7. President Andrew Jackson

   (1829 - 1837)

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   • Justice
     John McLean

     (1830 - 1861)

   • Justice
     Henry Baldwin

     (1830 - 1844)

   • Justice
     James Moore Wayne

     (1835 - 1867)

   • Chief Justice
     Roger Taney

     (1836 - 1864)

   • Justice
     Philip Pendleton Barbour

     (1836 - 1841)

   • Justice
     John Catron

     (1837 - 1865)

8. President Martin Van Buren

   (1837 - 1841)

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   • Justice
     John McKinley

     (1838 - 1852)

   • Justice
     Peter Vivian Daniel

     (1842 - 1860)

9. President William Henry Harrison

   (1841 - 1841)

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   President William Henry Harrison did not appoint any Justices to the Supreme Court.

10. President John Tyler

    (1841 - 1845)

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    • Justice
      Samuel Nelson

      (1845 - 1872)

11. President James K. Polk

    (1845 - 1849)

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    • Justice
      Levi Woodbury

      (1845 - 1851)

    • Justice
      Robert Cooper Grier

      (1846 - 1870)

12. President Zachary Taylor

    (1849 - 1850)

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    President Zachary Taylor did not appoint any Justices to the Supreme Court.

13. President Millard Fillmore

    (1850 - 1853)

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    • Justice
      Benjamin Robbins Curtis

      (1851 - 1857)

14. President Franklin Pierce

    (1853 - 1857)

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    • Justice
      John Archibald Campbell

      (1853 - 1861)

15. President James Buchanan

    (1857 - 1861)

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    • Justice
      Nathan Clifford

      (1858 - 1881)

16. President Abraham Lincoln

    (1861 - 1865)

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    • Justice
      Noah Hayes Swayne

      (1862 - 1881)

    • Justice
      Samuel Freeman Miller

      (1862 - 1890)

    • Justice
      David Davis

      (1862 - 1877)

    • Justice
      Stephen Johnson Field

      (1863 - 1897)

    • Chief Justice
      Salmon P. Chase

      (1864 - 1873)

17. President Andrew Johnson

    (1865 - 1869)

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    President Andrew Johnson did not appoint any Justices to the Supreme Court.

18. President Ulysses S. Grant

    (1869 - 1877)

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    • Justice
      William Strong

      (1870 - 1880)

    • Justice
      Joseph P. Bradley

      (1870 - 1892)

    • Justice
      Ward Hunt

      (1873 - 1882)

    • Chief Justice
      Morrison Waite

      (1874 - 1888)

19. President Rutherford B. Hayes

    (1877 - 1881)

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    • Justice
      John Marshall Harlan I

      (1877 - 1911)

    • Justice
      William Burnham Woods

      (1881 - 1887)

20. President James A. Garfield

    (1881 - 1881)

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    • Justice
      Stanley Matthews

      (1881 - 1889)

21. President Chester A. Arthur

    (1881 - 1885)

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    • Justice
      Samuel Blatchford

      (1882 - 1893)

    • Justice
      Horace Gray

      (1882 - 1902)

22. President Grover Cleveland I

    (1885 - 1889)

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    • Justice
      Lucius Quintus C. Lamar

      (1888 - 1893)

    • Chief Justice
      Melville Fuller

      (1888 - 1910)

23. President Benjamin Harrison

    (1889 - 1893)

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    • Justice
      David Josiah Brewer

      (1890 - 1910)

    • Justice
      Henry Billings Brown

      (1891 - 1906)

    • Justice
      George Shiras

      (1892 - 1903)

    • Justice
      Howell Edmunds Jackson

      (1893 - 1895)

24. President Grover Cleveland II

    (1893 - 1897)

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    • Justice
      Edward Douglass White

      (1894 - 1910)

    • Justice
      Rufus Wheeler Peckham

      (1896 - 1909)

25. President William McKinley

    (1897 - 1901)

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    • Justice
      Joseph McKenna

      (1898 - 1925)

26. President Theodore Roosevelt

    (1901 - 1909)

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    • Justice
      Oliver Wendell Holmes

      (1902 - 1932)

    • Justice
      William Rufus Day

      (1903 - 1922)

    • Justice
      William Henry Moody

      (1906 - 1910)

27. President William Howard Taft

    (1909 - 1913)

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    • Justice
      Horace Harmon Lurton

      (1910 - 1914)

    • Justice
      Charles Evans Hughes

      (1910 - 1916)

    • Chief Justice
      Edward Douglass White

      (1910 - 1921)

    • Justice
      Joseph Rucker Lamar

      (1911 - 1916)

    • Justice
      Willis Van Devanter

      (1911 - 1937)

    • Justice
      Mahlon Pitney

      (1912 - 1922)

28. President Woodrow Wilson

    (1913 - 1921)

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    • Justice
      James Clark McReynolds

      (1914 - 1941)

    • Justice
      Louis Dembitz Brandeis

      (1916 - 1939)

    • Justice
      John Hessin Clarke

      (1916 - 1922)

29. President Warren G. Harding

    (1921 - 1923)

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    • Chief Justice
      William Howard Taft

      (1921 - 1930)

    • Justice
      George Sutherland

      (1922 - 1938)

    • Justice
      Pierce Butler

      (1923 - 1939)

    • Justice
      Edward Terry Sanford

      (1923 - 1930)

30. President Calvin Coolidge

    (1923 - 1929)

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    • Justice
      Harlan Fiske Stone

      (1925 - 1941)

31. President Herbert Hoover

    (1929 - 1933)

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    • Chief Justice
      Charles Evans Hughes

      (1930 - 1941)

    • Justice
      Owen Josephus Roberts

      (1930 - 1945)

    • Justice
      Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

      (1932 - 1938)

32. President Franklin D. Roosevelt

    (1933 - 1945)

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    • Justice
      Hugo Lafayette Black

      (1937 - 1971)

    • Justice
      Stanley Forman Reed

      (1938 - 1957)

    • Justice
      Felix Frankfurter

      (1939 - 1962)

    • Justice
      William Orville Douglas

      (1939 - 1975)

    • Justice
      Frank Murphy

      (1940 - 1949)

    • Chief Justice
      Harlan F. Stone

      (1941 - 1946)

    • Justice
      James Francis Byrnes

      (1941 - 1942)

    • Justice
      Robert Houghwout Jackson

      (1941 - 1954)

    • Justice
      Wiley Blount Rutledge

      (1943 - 1949)

33. President Harry S. Truman

    (1945 - 1953)

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    • Justice
      Harold Hitz Burton

      (1945 - 1958)

    • Justice
      Tom Campbell Clark

      (1945 - 1967)

    • Chief Justice
      Fred Vinson

      (1946 - 1953)

    • Justice
      Sherman Minton

      (1949 - 1956)

34. President Dwight D. Eisenhower

    (1953 - 1961)

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    • Chief Justice
      Earl Warren

      (1953 - 1969)

    • Justice
      John Marshall Harlan II

      (1955 - 1971)

    • Justice
      William J. Brennan

      (1956 - 1990)

    • Justice
      Charles Evans Whittaker

      (1957 - 1962)

    • Justice
      Potter Stewart

      (1958 - 1981)

35. President John F. Kennedy

    (1961 - 1963)

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    • Justice
      Byron Raymond White

      (1962 - 1993)

    • Justice
      Arthur Joseph Goldberg

      (1962 - 1965)

36. President Lyndon B. Johnson

    (1963 - 1969)

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    • Justice
      Abe Fortas

      (1965 - 1969)

    • Justice
      Thurgood Marshall

      (1967 - 1991)

37. President Richard Nixon

    (1969 - 1974)

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    • Chief Justice
      Warren Burger

      (1969 - 1986)

    • Justice
      Harry A. Blackmun

      (1970 - 1994)

    • Justice
      Lewis F. Powell

      (1972 - 1987)

    • Justice
      William H. Rehnquist

      (1972 - 1986)

38. President Gerald Ford

    (1974 - 1977)

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    • Justice
      John Paul Stevens

      (1975 - 2010)

39. President Jimmy Carter

    (1977 - 1981)

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    President Jimmy Carter did not appoint any Justices to the Supreme Court.

40. President Ronald Reagan

    (1981 - 1989)

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    • Justice
      Sandra Day O'Connor

      (1981 - 2006)

    • Chief Justice
      William Rehnquist

      (1986 - 2005)

    • Justice
      Antonin Scalia

      (1986 - 2016)

    • Justice
      Anthony M. Kennedy

      (1988 - 2018)

41. President George H. W. Bush

    (1989 - 1993)

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    • Justice
      David H. Souter

      (1990 - 2009)

    • Justice
      Clarence Thomas

      (1991 - Present)

42. President Bill Clinton

    (1993 - 2001)

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    • Justice
      Ruth Bader Ginsburg

      (1993 - 2020)

    • Justice
      Stephen G. Breyer

      (1994 - 2022)

43. President George W. Bush

    (2001 - 2009)

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    • Chief Justice
      John Roberts

      (2005 - Present)

    • Justice
      Samuel A. Alito

      (2006 - Present)

44. President Barack Obama

    (2009 - 2017)

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    • Justice
      Sonia Sotomayor

      (2009 - Present)

    • Justice
      Elena Kagan

      (2010 - Present)

45. President Donald Trump

    (2017 - 2021)

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    • Justice
      Neil M. Gorsuch

      (2017 - Present)

    • Justice
      Brett M. Kavanaugh

      (2018 - Present)

    • Justice
      Amy Coney Barrett

      (2020 - Present)

46. President Joe Biden

    (2021 - Present)

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    • Justice
      Ketanji Brown Jackson

      (2022 - Present)