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Chief Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court

Name, state	Years as Chief Justice
John Jay, N.Y.	5
John Rutledge, S.C.	1
Oliver Ellsworth, Conn.	4
John Marshall, Va.	34
Roger B. Tane, Md.	28
Salmon P. Chase, Ohio	8
Morrison R. Waite, Ohio	14
Melville W. Fuller, Ill.	21
Edward D. White, La.	10
Charles E. Hughes, N.Y.	10
William H. Taft, Conn.	8
Harlan F. Stone, N.Y.	4
Frederick M. Vinson, Ky.	7
Earl Warren, Calif.	15
Warren E. Burger, Va.	17
William H. Rehnquist, Ariz.	18
John G. Roberts, DC	—

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