Results: us_supreme_court_justices.sas

The GPlot Procedure

Plot of unique_number by startdate

Plot of unique_number by startdate

The Print Procedure

Data Set WORK.TABLE_DATA

  Supreme Court Justice Position Start End Time   Appointed by
1 John Jay Chief 19OCT1789 29JUN1795 5 years, 253 days Resigned George Washington
2 John Rutledge Associate 15FEB1790 05MAR1791 1 year, 18 days Resigned George Washington
3 William Cushing Associate 02FEB1790 13SEP1810 20 years, 223 days Died George Washington
4 James Wilson Associate 05OCT1789 21AUG1798 8 years, 320 days Died George Washington
5 John Blair Associate 02FEB1790 25OCT1795 5 years, 265 days Resigned George Washington
6 James Iredell Associate 12MAY1790 20OCT1799 9 years, 161 days Died George Washington
7 Thomas Johnson Associate 19SEP1791 16JAN1793 1 year, 119 days Resigned George Washington
8 William Paterson Associate 11MAR1793 09SEP1806 13 years, 181 days Died George Washington
2 John Rutledge Chief 12AUG1795 15DEC1795 138 days Resigned, nomination having been rejected George Washington
9 Samuel Chase Associate 04FEB1796 19JUN1811 15 years, 135 days Died George Washington
10 Oliver Ellsworth Chief 08MAR1796 15DEC1800 4 years, 282 days Resigned George Washington
11 Bushrod Washington Associate 09NOV1798 26NOV1829 31 years, 17 days Died John Adams
12 Alfred Moore Associate 21APR1800 26JAN1804 3 years, 280 days Resigned John Adams
13 John Marshall Chief 04FEB1801 06JUL1835 34 years, 152 days Died John Adams
14 William Johnson Associate 07MAY1804 04AUG1834 30 years, 89 days Died Thomas Jefferson
15 Henry Brockholst Livingston Associate 20JAN1807 18MAR1823 16 years, 57 days Died Thomas Jefferson
16 Thomas Todd Associate 04MAY1807 07FEB1826 18 years, 341 days Died Thomas Jefferson
17 Gabriel Duvall Associate 23NOV1811 14JAN1835 23 years, 50 days Resigned James Madison
18 Joseph Story Associate 03FEB1812 10SEP1845 33 years, 219 days Died James Madison
19 Smith Thompson Associate 01SEP1823 18DEC1843 20 years, 108 days Died James Monroe
20 Robert Trimble Associate 16JUN1826 25AUG1828 2 years, 70 days Died John Quincy Adams
21 John McLean Associate 12MAR1829 04APR1861 32 years, 23 days Died Andrew Jackson
22 Henry Baldwin Associate 18JAN1830 21APR1844 14 years, 94 days Died Andrew Jackson
23 James Moore Wayne Associate 14JAN1835 05JUL1867 32 years, 172 days Died Andrew Jackson
24 Roger B. Taney Chief 28MAR1836 12OCT1864 28 years, 198 days Died Andrew Jackson
25 Philip P. Barbour Associate 12MAY1836 25FEB1841 4 years, 289 days Died Andrew Jackson
26 John Catron Associate 01MAY1837 30MAY1865 28 years, 29 days Died Andrew Jackson
27 John McKinley Associate 09JAN1838 19JUL1852 14 years, 192 days Died Martin Van Buren
28 Peter Vivian Daniel Associate 10JAN1842 31MAY1860 18 years, 142 days Died Martin Van Buren
29 Samuel Nelson Associate 27FEB1845 28NOV1872 27 years, 275 days Retired John Tyler
30 Levi Woodbury Associate 23SEP1845 04SEP1851 5 years, 346 days Died James K. Polk
31 Robert Cooper Grier Associate 10AUG1846 31JAN1870 23 years, 174 days Retired James K. Polk
32 Benjamin Robbins Curtis Associate 10OCT1851 30SEP1857 5 years, 355 days Resigned Millard Fillmore
33 John Archibald Campbell Associate 11APR1853 30APR1861 8 years, 19 days Resigned Franklin Pierce
34 Nathan Clifford Associate 21JAN1858 25JUL1881 23 years, 185 days Died James Buchanan
35 Noah Haynes Swayne Associate 27JAN1862 24JAN1881 18 years, 363 days Retired Abraham Lincoln
36 Samuel Freeman Miller Associate 21JUL1862 13OCT1890 28 years, 84 days Died Abraham Lincoln
37 David Davis Associate 10DEC1862 04MAR1877 14 years, 84 days Resigned Abraham Lincoln
38 Stephen Johnson Field Associate 20MAY1863 01DEC1897 34 years, 195 days Retired Abraham Lincoln
39 Salmon P. Chase Chief 15DEC1864 07MAY1873 8 years, 143 days Died Abraham Lincoln
40 William Strong Associate 14MAR1870 14DEC1880 10 years, 275 days Retired Ulysses S. Grant
41 Joseph P. Bradley Associate 23MAR1870 22JAN1892 21 years, 305 days Died Ulysses S. Grant
42 Ward Hunt Associate 09JAN1873 27JAN1882 9 years, 18 days Retired Ulysses S. Grant
43 Morrison Waite Chief 04MAR1874 23MAR1888 14 years, 19 days Died Ulysses S. Grant
44 John Marshall Harlan Associate 10DEC1877 14OCT1911 33 years, 308 days Died Rutherford B. Hayes
45 William Burnham Woods Associate 05JAN1881 14MAY1887 6 years, 129 days Died Rutherford B. Hayes
46 Stanley Matthews Associate 17MAY1881 22MAR1889 7 years, 309 days Died James A. Garfield
47 Horace Gray Associate 09JAN1882 15SEP1902 20 years, 249 days Died Chester A. Arthur
48 Samuel Blatchford Associate 03APR1882 07JUL1893 11 years, 95 days Died Chester A. Arthur
49 Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar Associate 18JAN1888 23JAN1893 5 years, 5 days Died Grover Cleveland
50 Melville Fuller Chief 08OCT1888 04JUL1910 21 years, 269 days Died Grover Cleveland
51 David J. Brewer Associate 06JAN1890 28MAR1910 20 years, 81 days Died Benjamin Harrison
52 Henry Billings Brown Associate 05JAN1891 28MAY1906 15 years, 143 days Retired Benjamin Harrison
53 George Shiras Jr. Associate 10OCT1892 23FEB1903 10 years, 136 days Retired Benjamin Harrison
54 Howell Edmunds Jackson Associate 04MAR1893 08AUG1895 2 years, 157 days Died Benjamin Harrison
55 Edward Douglass White Associate 12MAR1894 18DEC1910 16 years, 281 days Continued as chief justice Grover Cleveland
56 Rufus W. Peckham Associate 06JAN1896 24OCT1909 13 years, 291 days Died Grover Cleveland
57 Joseph McKenna Associate 26JAN1898 05JAN1925 26 years, 345 days Retired William McKinley
58 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Associate 08DEC1902 12JAN1932 29 years, 35 days Retired Theodore Roosevelt
59 William R. Day Associate 02MAR1903 13NOV1922 19 years, 256 days Retired Theodore Roosevelt
60 William Henry Moody Associate 17DEC1906 20NOV1910 3 years, 338 days Retired Theodore Roosevelt
61 Horace Harmon Lurton Associate 03JAN1910 12JUL1914 4 years, 204 days Died William Howard Taft
62 Charles Evans Hughes Associate 10OCT1910 10JUN1916 5 years, 244 days Resigned William Howard Taft
55 Edward Douglass White Chief 19DEC1910 19MAY1921 10 years, 151 days Died William Howard Taft
63 Willis Van Devanter Associate 03JAN1911 02JUN1937 26 years, 150 days Retired William Howard Taft
64 Joseph Rucker Lamar Associate 03JAN1911 02JAN1916 4 years, 364 days Died William Howard Taft
65 Mahlon Pitney Associate 18MAR1912 31DEC1922 10 years, 288 days Resigned William Howard Taft
66 James Clark McReynolds Associate 12OCT1914 31JAN1941 26 years, 111 days Retired Woodrow Wilson
67 Louis Brandeis Associate 05JUN1916 13FEB1939 22 years, 253 days Retired Woodrow Wilson
68 John Hessin Clarke Associate 09OCT1916 18SEP1922 5 years, 344 days Retired Woodrow Wilson
69 William Howard Taft Chief 11JUL1921 03FEB1930 8 years, 207 days Retired Warren G. Harding
70 George Sutherland Associate 02OCT1922 17JAN1938 15 years, 107 days Retired Warren G. Harding
71 Pierce Butler Associate 02JAN1923 16NOV1939 16 years, 318 days Died Warren G. Harding
72 Edward Terry Sanford Associate 19FEB1923 08MAR1930 7 years, 17 days Died Warren G. Harding
73 Harlan F. Stone Associate 02MAR1925 02JUL1941 16 years, 122 days Continued as chief justice Calvin Coolidge
62 Charles Evans Hughes Chief 24FEB1930 30JUN1941 11 years, 126 days Retired Herbert Hoover
74 Owen Roberts Associate 02JUN1930 31JUL1945 15 years, 59 days Resigned Herbert Hoover
75 Benjamin N. Cardozo Associate 14MAR1932 09JUL1938 6 years, 117 days Died Herbert Hoover
76 Hugo Black Associate 19AUG1937 17SEP1971 34 years, 29 days Retired Franklin D. Roosevelt
77 Stanley Forman Reed Associate 31JAN1938 25FEB1957 19 years, 25 days Retired Franklin D. Roosevelt
78 Felix Frankfurter Associate 30JAN1939 28AUG1962 23 years, 210 days Retired Franklin D. Roosevelt
79 William O. Douglas Associate 17APR1939 12NOV1975 36 years, 209 days Retired Franklin D. Roosevelt
80 Frank Murphy Associate 05FEB1940 19JUL1949 9 years, 164 days Died Franklin D. Roosevelt
73 Harlan F. Stone Chief 03JUL1941 22APR1946 4 years, 293 days Died Franklin D. Roosevelt
81 James F. Byrnes Associate 08JUL1941 03OCT1942 1 year, 87 days Resigned Franklin D. Roosevelt
82 Robert H. Jackson Associate 11JUL1941 09OCT1954 13 years, 90 days Died Franklin D. Roosevelt
83 Wiley Blount Rutledge Associate 15FEB1943 10SEP1949 6 years, 207 days Died Franklin D. Roosevelt
84 Harold Hitz Burton Associate 01OCT1945 13OCT1958 13 years, 12 days Retired Harry S. Truman
85 Fred M. Vinson Chief 24JUN1946 08SEP1953 7 years, 76 days Died Harry S. Truman
86 Tom C. Clark Associate 24AUG1949 12JUN1967 17 years, 292 days Retired Harry S. Truman
87 Sherman Minton Associate 12OCT1949 15OCT1956 7 years, 3 days Retired Harry S. Truman
88 Earl Warren Chief 05OCT1953 23JUN1969 15 years, 261 days Retired Dwight D. Eisenhower
89 John Marshall Harlan II Associate 28MAR1955 23SEP1971 16 years, 179 days Retired Dwight D. Eisenhower
90 William J. Brennan Jr. Associate 16OCT1956 20JUL1990 33 years, 277 days Retired Dwight D. Eisenhower
91 Charles Evans Whittaker Associate 25MAR1957 31MAR1962 5 years, 6 days Retired Dwight D. Eisenhower
92 Potter Stewart Associate 14OCT1958 03JUL1981 22 years, 262 days Retired Dwight D. Eisenhower
93 Byron White Associate 16APR1962 28JUN1993 31 years, 73 days Retired John F. Kennedy
94 Arthur Goldberg Associate 01OCT1962 25JUL1965 2 years, 297 days Resigned John F. Kennedy
95 Abe Fortas Associate 04OCT1965 14MAY1969 3 years, 222 days Resigned Lyndon B. Johnson
96 Thurgood Marshall Associate 02OCT1967 01OCT1991 23 years, 364 days Retired Lyndon B. Johnson
97 Warren E. Burger Chief 23JUN1969 26SEP1986 17 years, 95 days Retired Richard Nixon
98 Harry Blackmun Associate 09JUN1970 03AUG1994 24 years, 55 days Retired Richard Nixon
99 Lewis F. Powell Jr. Associate 07JAN1972 26JUN1987 15 years, 170 days Retired Richard Nixon
100 William Rehnquist Associate 07JAN1972 26SEP1986 14 years, 262 days Continued as chief justice Richard Nixon
101 John Paul Stevens Associate 19DEC1975 29JUN2010 34 years, 192 days Retired Gerald Ford
102 Sandra Day O'Connor Associate 25SEP1981 31JAN2006 24 years, 128 days Retired Ronald Reagan
100 William Rehnquist Chief 26SEP1986 03SEP2005 18 years, 342 days Died Ronald Reagan
103 Antonin Scalia Associate 26SEP1986 13FEB2016 29 years, 140 days Died Ronald Reagan
104 Anthony Kennedy Associate 18FEB1988 31JUL2018 30 years, 163 days Retired Ronald Reagan
105 David Souter Associate 09OCT1990 29JUN2009 18 years, 263 days Retired George H. W. Bush
106 Clarence Thomas Associate 23OCT1991 06FEB2024 32 years, 95 days Incumbent George H. W. Bush
107 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate 10AUG1993 18SEP2020 27 years, 39 days Died Bill Clinton
108 Stephen Breyer Associate 03AUG1994 30JUN2022 27 years, 331 days Retired Bill Clinton
109 John Roberts Chief 29SEP2005 06FEB2024 18 years, 119 days Incumbent George W. Bush
110 Samuel Alito Associate 31JAN2006 06FEB2024 17 years, 360 days Incumbent George W. Bush
111 Sonia Sotomayor Associate 08AUG2009 06FEB2024 14 years, 171 days Incumbent Barack Obama
112 Elena Kagan Associate 07AUG2010 06FEB2024 13 years, 172 days Incumbent Barack Obama
113 Neil Gorsuch Associate 10APR2017 06FEB2024 6 years, 291 days Incumbent Donald Trump
114 Brett Kavanaugh Associate 06OCT2018 06FEB2024 5 years, 112 days Incumbent Donald Trump
115 Amy Coney Barrett Associate 27OCT2020 06FEB2024 3 years, 91 days Incumbent Donald Trump
116 Ketanji Brown Jackson Associate 30JUN2022 06FEB2024 1 year, 210 days Incumbent Joe Biden