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John Rutledge

February 15, 1790 - March 5, 1791

James Iredell

May 12, 1790 - October 20, 1799

Bushrod Washington

November 9, 1798 - November 26, 1829

Thomas Todd

May 4, 1807 - February 7, 1826

Robert Trimble

June 16, 1826 - August 25, 1828

Philip Pendleton Barbour

May 12, 1836 - February 25, 1841

Samuel Nelson

February 27, 1845 - November 28, 1872

John Archibald Campbell

April 11, 1853 - April 30, 1861

David Davis

December 10, 1862 - March 4, 1877

Ward Hunt

January 9, 1873 - January 27, 1882

Horace Gray

January 9, 1882 - September 15, 1902

Henry Billings Brown

January 5, 1891 - May 28, 1906

Rufus Wheeler Peckham

January 6, 1896 - October 24, 1909

William Henry Moody

December 17, 1906 - November 20, 1910

Joseph Rucker Lamar

January 3, 1911 - January 2, 1916

John Hessin Clarke

October 9, 1916 - September 18, 1922

Harlan Fiske Stone

March 2, 1925 - July 2, 1941

Stanley Forman Reed

January 31, 1938 - February 25, 1957

James Francis Byrnes

July 8, 1941 - October 3, 1942

Tom Campbell Clark

August 24, 1949 - June 12, 1967

Charles Evans Whittaker

March 25, 1957 - March 31, 1962

Abe Fortas

October 4, 1965 - May 14, 1969

William H. Rehnquist

January 7, 1972 - September 26, 1986

Anthony M. Kennedy

February 18, 1988 - July 31, 2018

Stephen G. Breyer

August 3, 1994 - June 30, 2022

Neil M. Gorsuch

April 10, 2017 -

William Cushing

February 2, 1790 - September 13, 1810

Thomas Johnson

September 19, 1791 - January 16, 1793

Alfred Moore

April 21, 1800 - January 26, 1804

Gabriel Duvall

November 23, 1811 - January 14, 1835

John McLean

March 12, 1829 - April 4, 1861

John Catron

May 1, 1837 - May 30, 1865

Levi Woodbury

September 23, 1845 - September 4, 1851

Nathan Clifford

January 21, 1858 - July 25, 1881

Stephen Johnson Field

May 20, 1863 - December 1, 1897

John Marshall Harlan

December 10, 1877 - October 14, 1911

Samuel Blatchford

April 3, 1882 - July 7, 1893

George Shiras, Jr.

October 10, 1892 - February 23, 1903

Joseph McKenna

January 26, 1898 - January 5, 1925

Horace Harmon Lurton

January 3, 1910 - July 12, 1914

Mahlon Pitney

March 18, 1912 - December 31, 1922

George Sutherland

October 2, 1922 - January 17, 1938

Owen Josephus Roberts

June 2, 1930 - July 31, 1945

Felix Frankfurter

January 30, 1939 - August 28, 1962

Robert Houghwout Jackson

July 11, 1941 - October 9, 1954

Sherman Minton

October 12, 1949 - October 15, 1956

Potter Stewart

October 14, 1958 - July 3, 1981

Thurgood Marshall

October 2, 1967 - October 1, 1991

John Paul Stevens

December 19, 1975 - June 29, 2010

David H. Souter

October 9, 1990 - June 29, 2009

Samuel A. Alito, Jr.

January 31, 2006 -

Brett M. Kavanaugh

October 6, 2018 -

James Wilson

October 5, 1789 - August 21, 1798

William Paterson

March 11, 1793 - September 9, 1806

William Johnson

May 7, 1804 - August 4, 1834

Joseph Story

February 3, 1812 - September 10, 1845

Henry Baldwin

January 18, 1830 - April 21, 1844

John McKinley

January 9, 1838 - July 19, 1852

Robert Cooper Grier

August 10, 1846 - January 31, 1870

Noah Haynes Swayne

January 27, 1862 - January 24, 1881

William Strong

March 14, 1870 - December 14, 1880

William Burnham Woods

January 5, 1881 - May 14, 1887

Lucius Quintus C. Lamar

January 18, 1888 - January 23, 1893

Howell Edmunds Jackson

March 4, 1893 - August 8, 1895

Oliver Wendell Holmes

December 8, 1902 - January 12, 1932

Charles Evans Hughes

October 10, 1910 - June 10, 1916

James Clark McReynolds

October 12, 1914 - January 31, 1941

Pierce Butler

January 2, 1923 - November 16, 1939

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

March 14, 1932 - July 9, 1938

William Orville Douglas

April 17, 1939 - November 12, 1975

Wiley Blount Rutledge

February 15, 1943 - September 10, 1949

John Marshall Harlan

March 28, 1955 - September 23, 1971

Byron Raymond White

April 16, 1962 - June 28, 1993

Harry A. Blackmun

June 9, 1970 - August 3, 1994

Sandra Day O'Connor

September 25, 1981 - January 31, 2006

Clarence Thomas

October 23, 1991 -

Sonia Sotomayor

August 8, 2009 -

Amy Coney Barrett

October 27, 2020 -

John Blair

February 2, 1790 - October 25, 1795

Samuel Chase

February 4, 1796 - June 19, 1811

Henry Brockholst Livingston

January 20, 1807 - March 18, 1823

Smith Thompson

September 1, 1823 - December 18, 1843

James Moore Wayne

January 14, 1835 - July 5, 1867

Peter Vivian Daniel

January 10, 1842 - May 31, 1860

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

October 10, 1851 - September 30, 1857

Samuel Freeman Miller

July 21, 1862 - October 13, 1890

Joseph P. Bradley

March 23, 1870 - January 22, 1892

Stanley Matthews

May 17, 1881 - March 22, 1889

David Josiah Brewer

January 6, 1890 - March 28, 1910

Edward Douglass White

March 12, 1894 - December 18, 1910

William Rufus Day

March 2, 1903 - November 13, 1922

Willis Van Devanter

January 3, 1911 - June 2, 1937

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

June 5,1916 - February 13, 1939

Edward Terry Sanford

February 19, 1923 - March 8, 1930

Hugo Lafayette Black

August 19, 1937 - September 17, 1971

Frank Murphy

February 5, 1940 - July 19, 1949

Harold Hitz Burton

October 1, 1945 - October 13, 1958

William J. Brennan, Jr.

October 16, 1956 - July 20, 1990

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

October 1, 1962 - July 25, 1965

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

January 7, 1972 - June 26, 1987

Antonin Scalia

September 26, 1986 - February 13, 2016

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

August 10, 1993 - September 18, 2020

Elena Kagan

August 7, 2010 -

Ketanji Brown Jackson

June 30, 2022 -

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