Supreme Court Justices (table)

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Supreme Court Justices (including dates on bench)
Chief Justices
John Jay	1789–95
John Rutledge	1795
Oliver Ellsworth	1796–1800
John Marshall	1801–35
Roger B. Taney	1836–64
Salmon P. Chase	1864–73
Morrison R. Waite	1874–88
Melville W. Fuller	1888–1910
Edward D. White	1910–21
William H. Taft	1921–30
Charles E. Hughes	1930–41
Harlan F. Stone	1941–46
Fred M. Vinson	1946–53
Earl Warren	1953–69
Warren E. Burger	1969–86
William H. Rehnquist	1986–2005
John G. Roberts, Jr.	2005–
Associate Justices
John Rutledge	1789–91
William Cushing	1789–1810
James Wilson	1789–98
John Blair	1789–96
Robert H. Harrison	1789–90
James Iredell	1790–99
Thomas Johnson	1791–93
William Paterson	1793–1806
Samuel Chase	1796–1811
Bushrod Washington	1798–1829
Alfred Moore	1799–1804
William Johnson	1804–34
Henry Brockholst Livingston	1806–23
Thomas Todd	1807–26
Gabriel Duval	1811–36
Joseph Storey	1811–45
Smith Thompson	1823–43
Robert Trimble	1826–28
John McLean	1829–61
Henry Baldwin	1830–44
James M. Wayne	1835–67
Philip P. Barbour	1836–41
John Catron	1837–65
John McKinley	1837–52
Peter V. Daniel	1841–60
Samuel Nelson	1845–72
Levi Woodbury	1845–51
Robert C. Grier	1846–70
Benjamin R. Curtis	1851–57
John A. Campbell	1853–61
Nathan Clifford	1858–81
Noah H. Swayne	1862–81
Samuel F. Miller	1862–90
David Davis	1862–77
Stephen J. Field	1863–97
William Strong	1870–80
Joseph P. Bradley	1870–92
Ward Hunt	1873–82
John M. Harlan	1877–1911
William B. Woods	1881–87
Stanley Matthews	1881–89
Horace Gray	1882–1902
Samuel Blatchford	1882–93
Lucius G. C. Lamar	1888–93
David J. Brewer	1890–1910
Henry B. Brown	1891–1906
George Shiras, Jr.	1892–1903
Howell E. Jackson	1893–95
Edward D. White	1894–1910
Rufus W. Peckham	1896–1909
Joseph McKenna	1898–1925
Oliver W. Holmes	1902–32
William R. Day	1903–22
William H. Moody	1906–10
Horace H. Lurton	1910–14
Charles E. Hughes	1910–16
Willis Van Devanter	1911–37
Joseph R. Lamar	1911–16
Mahlon Pitney	1912–22
James C. McReynolds	1914–41
Louis D. Brandeis	1916–39
John H. Clarke	1916–22
George Sutherland	1922–38
Pierce Butler	1923–39
Edward T. Sanford	1923–30
Harlan F. Stone	1925–41
Owen J. Roberts	1930–45
Benjamin N. Cardozo	1932–38
Hugo Black	1937–71
Stanley F. Reed	1938–57
Felix Frankfurter	1939–62
William O. Douglas	1939–75
Frank Murphy	1940–49
James F. Byrnes	1941–42
Robert H. Jackson	1941–54
Wiley B. Rutledge	1943–49
Harold H. Burton	1945–58
Thomas C. Clark	1949–67
Sherman Minton	1949–56
John M. Harlan	1955–71
William J. Brennan, Jr.	1956–90
Charles E. Whittaker	1957–62
Potter Stewart	1958–81
Byron R. White	1962–93
Arthur J. Goldberg	1962–65
Abe Fortas	1965–69
Thurgood Marshall	1967–91
Harry A. Blackmun	1970–94
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.	1971–87
William H. Rehnquist	1971–86
John Paul Stevens	1975–
Sandra Day O'Connor	1981–2006
Antonin Scalia	1986–
Anthony M. Kennedy	1988–
David H. Souter	1990–
Clarence Thomas	1991–
Ruth Bader Ginsburg	1993–
Stephen G. Breyer	1994–
Samuel A. Alito, Jr.	2006–

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