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**September 24, 1789****1 Stat. 73**
**September 24, 1789****1 Stat. 73**
**September 24, 1789****1 Stat. 73**
**September 24, 1789****1 Stat. 73**
**September 24, 1789****1 Stat. 73**Jay, John
			1789-1795
Rutledge, John
			1789-1791
Cushing, William
			1789-1810
Wilson, James
			1789-1798
Blair, John, Jr.
			1789-1795
Iredell, James
			1790-1799Rutledge, John
			1795
Johnson, Thomas
			1791-1793
Story, Joseph
			1811-1845
Washington, Bushrod
			1798-1829
Chase, Samuel
			1796-1811
Moore, Alfred
			1799-1804Ellsworth, Oliver
			1796-1800
Paterson, William
			1793-1806
Woodbury, Levi
			1845-1851
Baldwin, Henry
			1830-1844
Duvall, Gabriel
			1811-1835
Johnson, William, Jr.
			1804-1834Marshall, John
			1801-1835
Livingston, H. Brockholst
			1806-1823
Curtis, Benjamin R.
			1851-1857
Grier, Robert C.
			1846-1870
Barbour, Philip P.
			1836-1841
Wayne, James M.1
			1835-1867Taney, Roger B.
			1836-1864
Thompson, Smith
			1823-1843
Clifford, Nathan
			1858-1881
Strong, William
			1870-1880
Daniel, Peter V.
			1841-1860Chase, Salmon P.
			1864-1873
Nelson, Samuel
			1845-1872
Gray, Horace
			1881-1902
Woods, William B.
			1880-1887
Miller, Samuel F.
			1862-1890Waite, Morrison R.
			1874-1888
Hunt, Ward
			1872-1882
Holmes, Oliver W., Jr.
			1902-1932
Lamar, Lucius Q. C.
			1888-1893
Brown, Henry B.
			1890-1906Fuller, Melville W.
			1888-1910
Blatchford, Samuel M.
			1882-1893
Cardozo, Benjamin N.
			1932-1938
Jackson, Howell E.
			1893-1895
Moody, William H.
			1906-1910White, Edward D.
			1910-1921
White, Edward D.
			1894-1910
Frankfurter, Felix
			1939-1962
Peckham, Rufus W.
			1895-1909
Lamar, Joseph R.
			1910-1916Taft, William H.
			1921-1930
Van Devanter, Willis
			1910-1937
Goldberg, Arthur J.
			1962-1965
Lurton, Horace H.
			1909-1914
Brandeis, Louis D.
			1916-1939Hughes, Charles E.
			1930-1941
Black, Hugo L.
			1937-1971
Fortas, Abe
			1965-1969
McReynolds, James C.
			1914-1941
Douglas, William O.
			1939-1975Stone, Harlan F.
			1941-1946
Powell, Lewis F., Jr.
			1971-1987
Blackmun, Harry A.
			1970-1994
Byrnes, James F.
			1941-1942
Stevens, John Paul
			1975-2010Vinson, Frederick M.
			1946-1953
Kennedy, Anthony M.
			1988-2018
Breyer, Stephen G.
			1994-2022
Rutledge, Wiley B.
			1943-1949
Kagan, Elena
			2010-Warren, Earl
			1953-1969
Kavanaugh, Brett M.
			2018-
Jackson, Ketanji B.
			2022-
Minton, Sherman
			1949-1956Burger, Warren E.
			1969-1986


Brennan, William J., Jr.
			1956-1990Rehnquist, William H.
			1986-2005


Souter, David H.
			1990-2009Roberts, John G., Jr.
			2005-


Sotomayor, Sonia
			2009- **February 24, 1807****2 Stat. 420**
**March 3, 1837****5 Stat. 176**
**March 3, 1837****5 Stat. 176**
**March 3, 1863****12 Stat. 794**
**April 10, 1869****16 Stat. 44**Todd, Thomas
			1807-1826
Catron, John1
			1837-1865
McKinley, John
			1837-1852
Field, Stephen J.
			1863-1897
Bradley, Joseph P.
			1870-1892Trimble, Robert
			1826-1828

Campbell, John A.
			1853-1861
McKenna, Joseph
			1898-1925
Shiras, George, Jr.
			1892-1903McLean, John
			1829-1861

Davis, David
			1862-1877
Stone, Harlan F.
			1925-1941
Day, William R.
			1903-1922Swayne, Noah H.
			1862-1881

Harlan, John Marshall
			1877-1911
Jackson, Robert H.
			1941-1954
Butler, Pierce
			1922-1939Matthews, Stanley
			1881-1889

Pitney, Mahlon
			1912-1922
Harlan, John Marshall (II)
			1955-1971
Murphy, Frank
			1940-1949Brewer, David J.
			1889-1910

Sanford, Edward T.
			1923-1930
Rehnquist, William H.
			1971-1986
Clark, Tom C.
			1949-1967Hughes, Charles E.
			1910-1916

Roberts, Owen J.
			1930-1945
Scalia, Antonin
			1986-2016
Marshall, Thurgood
			1967-1991Clarke, John H.
			1916-1922

Burton, Harold H.
			1945-1958
Gorsuch, Neil M.
			2017-
Thomas, Clarence
			1991-Sutherland, George
			1922-1938

Stewart, Potter
			1958-1981Reed, Stanley F.
			1938-1957

O'Connor, Sandra Day
			1981-2006Whittaker, Charles E.
			1957-1962

Alito, Samuel A., Jr.
			2006-White, Byron R.
			1962-1993Ginsburg, Ruth Bader
			1993-2020Barrett, Amy C.
			2020-1. The act of July 23, 1866, 14 Stat. 209, provided for a reduction in the number of seats on the Court from ten to seven by discontinuing the appointment of associate justices to vacancies until the prescribed size of the Court was met. In accordance with the statute, no successors to John Catron and James Wayne were appointed. Before the Court could be further reduced, the act of April 10, 1869, 16 Stat. 44, increased the number of authorized seats to nine.
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