Chief Justice of the United States

The Chief Justice of the United States is the senior judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.

They have no more powers than any of the other judges of the Supreme Court, who are called Associate Justices. The Chief Justice is responsible for organizing the Court's schedules and administration.

By tradition, the Chief Justice administers the oath of office to the President of the United States. The only time this has not happened is when Calvin Coolidge became president.

 List of chief justices 
 Chief Justice Date confirmed(Vote) Tenure Tenure length Appointed by Prior position 1  120px  John Jay(1745–1829) September 26, 1789(Acclamation) –June 29, 1795  George Washington ActingUnited States Secretary of State(1789–1790) 2 120px John Rutledge(1739–1800) December 15, 1795(10–14) –December 28, 1795  Chief Justice of theSouth Carolina Court ofCommon Pleas and Sessions(1791–1795)Associate Justiceof the Supreme Court(1789–1791) 3 120px Oliver Ellsworth(1745–1807) March 4, 1796(21–1) –December 15, 1800  United States Senatorfrom Connecticut(1789–1796) 4 120px John Marshall(1755–1835) January 27, 1801(acclamation) –July 6, 1835  John Adams 4thUnited States Secretary of State(1800–1801) 5 120px Roger B. Taney(1777–1864)  March 15, 1836(29–15) –October 12, 1864  Andrew Jackson 12thUnited States Secretaryof the Treasury(1833–1834) 6 120px Salmon P. Chase(1808–1873) December 6, 1864(acclamation) –May 7, 1873  Abraham Lincoln 25thUnited States Secretaryof the Treasury(1861–1864) 7 120px Morrison Waite(1816–1888) January 21, 1874(63–0) –March 23, 1888  Ulysses S. Grant Ohio State Senator(1849–1850)Presiding officer,Ohio constitutional convention(1873) 8 120px Melville Fuller(1833–1910) July 20, 1888(41–20) –July 4, 1910  Grover Cleveland President,Illinois State Bar Association(1886)Illinois State Representative(1863–1865) 9 120px Edward Douglass White(1845–1921) December 12, 1910(acclamation) –May 19, 1921  William Howard Taft Associate Justiceof the Supreme Court(1894–1910) 10 120px William Howard Taft(1857–1930) June 30, 1921(acclamation) –February 3, 1930  Warren G. Harding 27thPresident of the United States(1909–1913) 11 120px Charles Evans Hughes(1862–1948) February 13, 1930(52–26) –June 30, 1941  Herbert Hoover 44thUnited States Secretary of State(1921–1925)Associate Justiceof the Supreme Court(1910–1916) 12 120px Harlan F. Stone(1872–1946) June 27, 1941(acclamation) –April 22, 1946  Franklin D. Roosevelt Associate Justiceof the Supreme Court(1925–1941) 13 120px Fred M. Vinson(1890–1953) June 20, 1946(acclamation) –September 8, 1953   Harry S. Truman 53rdUnited States Secretaryof the Treasury(1945–1946) 14 120px Earl Warren(1891–1974) March 1, 1954(acclamation) –June 23, 1969  Dwight D. Eisenhower 30thGovernor of California(1943–1953) 15 120px Warren E. Burger(1907–1995) June 9, 1969(74–3) –September 26, 1986  Richard Nixon Judge of theUnited States Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia Circuit(1956–1969) 16 120px William Rehnquist(1924–2005) September 17, 1986(65–33) –September 3, 2005  Ronald Reagan Associate Justiceof the Supreme Court(1972–1986) 17 120px John Roberts(born 1955) September 29, 2005(78–22) –Incumbent  George W. Bush Judge of theUnited States Court of Appealsfor the District of Columbia Circuit(2003–2005)

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