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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are the members of the Supreme Court of the United States other than the Chief Justice of the United States. The number of Associate Justices is determined by the United States Congress and is currently set at eight by the Judiciary Act...
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Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Benjamin Robbins Curtis (November 4, 1809 – September 15, 1874) was an American attorney and United States Supreme Court Justice.
Curtis was born in 1809 in Watertown, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard College in 1829, Phi Beta Kappa ,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1809
Date of death:
- Sep 15, 1874 (age 64 years)
Frank Murphy
William Francis (Frank) Murphy (April 13, 1890 – July 19, 1949) was a politician and jurist from Michigan. He served as First Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Eastern Michigan District (1920-23), Recorder's Court Judge, Detroit (1923-30). Mayor of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 13, 1890
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1949 (age 59 years)
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Felix Frankfurter
Felix Frankfurter (November 15, 1882 – February 22, 1965) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Frankfurter was born on November 15, 1882 in Vienna, Austria, third of six children of Leopold and Emma (Winter) Frankfurter. His...
Date of birth:
- Nov 15, 1882
Date of death:
- Feb 22, 1965 (age 82 years)
John Paul Stevens
John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is the senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He joined the Supreme Court in 1975 and is the oldest member of the Court. He was appointed to the Court by Republican President...
Date of birth:
- Apr 20, 1920 (age 89 years)
Sandra Day O'Connor
Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is an American jurist and was the first female member of the Supreme Court of the United States. She served as an Associate Justice from 1981 until her retirement from the Court in 2006. O'Connor was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 26, 1930 (age 79 years)
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Antonin Scalia
Antonin Gregory Scalia (help·info) (born March 11, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan having previously served on the D.C. Circuit and in the Nixon and Ford...
Date of birth:
- Mar 11, 1936 (age 73 years)
Anthony Kennedy
Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, having been appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan in 1988. Since the retirement of Sandra Day O'Connor, Kennedy is often considered the swing...
Date of birth:
- Jul 23, 1936 (age 73 years)
David Souter
David Hackett Souter (pronounced /ˈsuːtər/; (born September 17, 1939) served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1990 until his retirement on June 29, 2009. Appointed by Republican President George H. W. Bush to...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1939 (age 70 years)
Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American jurist who has served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States since 1991. Thomas is the second African-American to serve on the Court, after Thurgood Marshall, whom he...
Date of birth:
- Jun 23, 1948 (age 61 years)
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg (born March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States. Ginsburg was appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton with the support of Republican Judiciary Chairman Senator Orrin Hatch in...
Date of birth:
- Mar 15, 1933 (age 76 years)
Stephen Breyer
Stephen Gerald Breyer (pronounced /ˈbraɪər/; born August 15, 1938) is an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. Appointed by Democratic President Bill Clinton in 1994, and known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, Breyer is...
Date of birth:
- Aug 15, 1938 (age 71 years)
Samuel Alito
Samuel Anthony Alito, Jr. (born April 1, 1950) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George W. Bush and has served on the court since January 31, 2006.
Raised in Hamilton Township, New...
Date of birth:
- Apr 1, 1950 (age 59 years)
Sonia Sotomayor
Sonia Sotomayor (English pronunciation: /ˈsoʊnjə ˌsoʊtoʊ.maɪˈjɔr/, Spanish: [ˈsoɲa sotomaˈʝor]; born June 25, 1954) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, serving since August 2009. Sotomayor is the Court's 111th justice,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 25, 1954 (age 55 years)
Abe Fortas
Abraham Fortas (June 19, 1910–April 5, 1982) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice. He served in that role from October 4, 1965 until May 14, 1969, when he resigned under pressure.
Fortas was born in Memphis, Tennessee. He was the youngest of...
Date of birth:
- Jun 19, 1910
Date of death:
- Apr 5, 1982 (age 71 years)
Byron White
Byron Raymond "Whizzer" White (June 8, 1917–April 15, 2002) won fame both as a football running back and as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed to the court by President John F. Kennedy in 1962, he served until...
Date of birth:
- Jun 8, 1917
Date of death:
- Apr 15, 2002 (age 84 years)
Thurgood Marshall
Thurgood Marshall (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993) was an American jurist and the first African American to serve on the Supreme Court of the United States. Before becoming a judge, he was a lawyer who was best remembered for his high success rate...
Date of birth:
- Jul 2, 1908
Date of death:
- Jan 24, 1993 (age 84 years)
Hugo Black
Hugo LaFayette Black (February 27, 1886 – September 25, 1971) was an American politician and jurist. A member of the Democratic Party, Black represented the state of Alabama in the United States Senate from 1927 to 1937, and served as an Associate...
Date of birth:
- Feb 27, 1886
Date of death:
- Sep 25, 1971 (age 85 years)
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Robert H. Jackson
Robert Houghwout Jackson (February 13, 1892–October 9, 1954) was United States Attorney General (1940–1941) and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1941–1954). He was also the chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg...
Date of birth:
- Feb 13, 1892
Date of death:
- Oct 9, 1954 (age 62 years)
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Tom C. Clark
Thomas Campbell Clark (September 23, 1899 – June 13, 1977) was United States Attorney General from 1945 to 1949 and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1949–1967).
Clark was born in Dallas, Texas, to Virginia Maxey Falls...
Date of birth:
- Sep 23, 1899
Date of death:
- Jun 13, 1977 (age 77 years)
James Wilson
As a member of the Continental Congress in 1776, Wilson was a firm advocate for independence and became an imposing figure that was looked upon favorably by his fellow Congressmen. But with Pennsylvania divided on the issue of separation, Wilson,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 14, 1742
Date of death:
- Aug 21, 1798 (age 55 years)
Louis Brandeis
Louis D. Brandeis (November 13, 1856 – October 5, 1941) was a United States Supreme Court Justice from 1916 to 1939. He was born in Louisville, Kentucky to Jewish parents who had immigrated from Europe. He enrolled at Harvard Law School, graduating...
Date of birth:
- Nov 13, 1856
Date of death:
- Oct 5, 1941 (age 84 years)
William Johnson
William Johnson (December 17 or December 27, 1771 - August 4, 1834) was a state legislator and judge in South Carolina, and an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1804 to his death in 1834.
Johnson was born in Charleston. His...
Date of birth:
- 1771
Date of death:
- Aug 11, 1834 (age 63 years)
Henry Billings Brown
Henry Billings Brown (born South Lee, Massachusetts, March 2, 1836; died Bronxville, New York, September 4, 1913) was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from January 5, 1891 to May 28, 1906. He is perhaps best known today...
Date of birth:
- 1836
Date of death:
- 1913 (age 77 years)
Sherman Minton
Sherman Minton, (October 20, 1890–April 9, 1965) was a Democratic United States Senator from Indiana and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
A longtime resident of New Albany, Indiana, Minton was born at 9172 State Road...
Date of birth:
- Oct 20, 1890
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1965 (age 74 years)
Samuel Chase
Samuel Chase (April 17, 1741 – June 19, 1811) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and earlier was a signatory to the United States Declaration of Independence as a representative of Maryland. Early in life, Chase was a ...
Date of birth:
- Apr 17, 1741
Date of death:
- Jun 19, 1811 (age 70 years)
Joseph Story
Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 – September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1811 to 1845. He is most remembered today for his opinions in Martin v. Hunter's Lessee and The...
Date of birth:
- Sep 18, 1779
Date of death:
- Sep 10, 1845 (age 66 years)
James F. Byrnes
James Francis Byrnes (May 2, 1882 – April 9, 1972) was an American statesman from the state of South Carolina. During his career, Byrnes served as a member of the House of Representatives (1911–1925), as a Senator (1931–1941), as Justice of the...
Date of birth:
- May 2, 1879
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1972 (age 93 years)
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Harry Blackmun
Harold Andrew Blackmun (November 12, 1908 – March 4, 1999) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1970 until 1994. He is best known as the author of Roe v. Wade.
Harry Blackmun was born in Nashville, Illinois, and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 12, 1908
Date of death:
- Mar 4, 1999 (age 90 years)
William J. Brennan, Jr.
William Joseph Brennan, Jr. (April 25, 1906 – July 24, 1997) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. During his term on the Supreme Court, he was known for being a leader of the judicially liberal wing of the Court.
He...
Date of birth:
- Apr 25, 1906
Date of death:
- Jul 24, 1997 (age 91 years)
William O. Douglas
William Orville Douglas (October 16, 1898 – January 19, 1980) was a United States Supreme Court Associate Justice. With a term lasting 36 years and 209 days, he is the longest-serving justice in the history of the Supreme Court. In 1975, a Time...
Date of birth:
- Oct 16, 1898
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1980 (age 81 years)
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.
Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. (September 19, 1907 – August 25, 1998) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He developed a reputation as a judicial moderate, and was known as a master of compromise and consensus-building....
Date of birth:
- Sep 19, 1907
Date of death:
- Aug 25, 1998 (age 90 years)
William Cushing
William Cushing (March 1, 1732 – September 13, 1810) was an early Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court, from its inception to his death. He was the longest-serving of the Court's original members, sitting on the bench for 21 years....
Date of birth:
- Mar 1, 1732
Date of death:
- Sep 13, 1810 (age 78 years)
David Davis
David Davis (March 9, 1815 – June 26, 1886) was a United States Senator from Illinois and associate justice of the United States Supreme Court. He also served as Abraham Lincoln's campaign manager at the 1860 Republican National Convention.
He was...
Date of birth:
- Mar 9, 1815
Date of death:
- Jun 26, 1886 (age 71 years)
Alfred Moore
Alfred Moore (May 21, 1755 – October 15, 1810) was a distinguished North Carolina judge who became a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Moore Square, a park located in the Moore Square Historic District in Raleigh, North Carolina was...
Date of birth:
- May 21, 1755
Date of death:
- Oct 15, 1810 (age 55 years)
James Moore Wayne
James Moore Wayne (1790 – July 5, 1867) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States and was a United States Representative from Georgia.
Born in Savannah, Georgia, Wayne was the son of Richard Wayne, who came to the US in 1760...
Date of birth:
- 1790
Date of death:
- Jul 5, 1867 (age 77 years)
John Marshall Harlan
John Marshall Harlan (June 1, 1833 – October 14, 1911) was an American Supreme Court associate justice and Union Army officer. He is most notable as the lone dissenter in the infamous Civil Rights Cases (1883), and Plessy v. Ferguson (1896), which,...
Date of birth:
- Jun 1, 1833
Date of death:
- Oct 14, 1911 (age 78 years)
James Iredell
James Iredell (October 5, 1751 – October 20, 1799) was one of the original Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. He was appointed by President George Washington and served from 1790 until his death in 1799. His son, James Iredell, Jr.,...
Date of birth:
- Oct 5, 1751
Date of death:
- Oct 20, 1799 (age 48 years)
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (b.March 8, 1841 – d.March 6, 1935) was an American jurist who served as an associate justice on the Supreme Court of the United States from 1902 to 1932. Noted for his long service, his concise and pithy opinions, and his...
Date of birth:
- Mar 8, 1841
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1935 (age 94 years)
Potter Stewart
Potter Stewart (January 23, 1915 – December 7, 1985) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court. On the Court, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and Fourth Amendment...
Date of birth:
- Jan 23, 1915
Date of death:
- Dec 7, 1985 (age 70 years)
Arthur Goldberg
Arthur Joseph Goldberg (August 8, 1908 – January 19, 1990) was an American statesman and jurist who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Supreme Court Justice and Ambassador to the United Nations.
Goldberg was born and raised on the West Side of...
Date of birth:
- Aug 8, 1908
Date of death:
- Jan 19, 1990 (age 81 years)
John Blair
John Blair, Jr. (1732 – August 31, 1800) was an American politician, Founding Father, and Patriot.
John Blair was one of the best-trained jurists of his day. A famous legal scholar, he avoided the tumult of state politics, preferring to work behind...
Date of birth:
- Oct 1731
Date of death:
- Aug 31, 1800 (age 68 years)
Benjamin N. Cardozo
Benjamin Nathan Cardozo (May 24, 1870 – July 9, 1938) was a well-known American lawyer and associate Supreme Court Justice. Cardozo is remembered for his significant influence on the development of American common law in the 20th century, in...
Date of birth:
- May 24, 1870
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 1938 (age 68 years)
Bushrod Washington
Bushrod Washington (June 5, 1762 – November 26, 1829) was a U.S. Supreme Court associate justice and the nephew of George Washington. While serving on the Marshall Court, he authored the opinion of Corfield v. Coryell, 6 Fed. Cas. 546 (C.C.E.D. Penn...
Date of birth:
- Jun 5, 1762
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1829 (age 67 years)
John Marshall Harlan II
John Marshall Harlan (May 20, 1899 – December 29, 1971) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court from 1955 to 1971. His namesake was his grandfather John Marshall Harlan, another associate justice who served...
Date of birth:
- May 20, 1899
Date of death:
- Dec 29, 1971 (age 72 years)
Thomas Stanley Matthews
Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889), generally known in adulthood as Stanley Matthews, was a Republican politician and jurist from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United...
Date of birth:
- Jul 21, 1824
Date of death:
- Mar 22, 1889 (age 64 years)
Gabriel Duvall
Gabriel Duvall (December 6, 1752 – March 6, 1844) was an American jurist. He was a U.S. Representative from the second district of Maryland from November 11, 1794, to March 28, 1796, Chief Justice of the General Court of Maryland from 1796 to 1802,...
Date of birth:
- Dec 6, 1752
Date of death:
- Mar 6, 1844 (age 91 years)
Wiley Blount Rutledge
Wiley Blount Rutledge, Jr. (July 20, 1894 - September 10, 1949) was a U.S. educator and jurist.
Rutledge was born in Cloverport, Kentucky (more specifically, at nearby Tar Springs) to Wiley Blount Rutledge, Sr., a Southern Baptist minister, and Mary...
Date of birth:
- Jul 20, 1894
Date of death:
- Sep 10, 1949 (age 55 years)
William Burnham Woods
William Burnham Woods (August 3, 1824 – May 14, 1887) was an American jurist, politician, and soldier.
Woods was born on August 3, 1824 in Newark, Ohio. He was the older brother of Charles R. Woods, another future Civil War general. He attended...
Date of birth:
- Aug 3, 1824
Date of death:
- May 14, 1887 (age 62 years)
Horace Harmon Lurton
Horace Harmon Lurton (February 26, 1844 – July 12, 1914) was an American jurist who served for four years as a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. Appointed at the age of 65, Lurton was the oldest justice appointed to the Court....
Date of birth:
- Feb 26, 1844
Date of death:
- Jul 12, 1914 (age 70 years)
Howell Edmunds Jackson
Howell Edmunds Jackson (April 8, 1832–August 8, 1895) was an American jurist and politician. He served on the United States Supreme Court, in the U.S. Senate, United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, and the Tennessee House of...
Date of birth:
- Apr 8, 1832
Date of death:
- Aug 8, 1895 (age 63 years)
James Clark McReynolds
James Clark McReynolds (February 3, 1862–August 24, 1946) was an American lawyer and judge who served both as United States Attorney General under President Woodrow Wilson and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
McReynolds...
Date of birth:
- Feb 3, 1862
Date of death:
- Aug 24, 1946 (age 84 years)
George Sutherland
George Sutherland (March 25, 1862 – July 18, 1942) was an English-born U.S. jurist and political figure. One of four appointments to the Supreme Court by President Warren G. Harding, he served as an Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court...
Date of birth:
- Mar 25, 1862
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1942 (age 80 years)
John McKinley
John McKinley (May 1, 1780 – July 19, 1852) was a U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama and an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Born in Culpeper County, Virginia, his family moved to Kentucky when he was an infant. In that...
Date of birth:
- May 1, 1780
Date of death:
- Jul 19, 1852 (age 72 years)
William Strong
William Strong (May 6, 1808 - August 19, 1895) was an American jurist and politician. He was a justice on the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Strong was born in Connecticut and later...
Date of birth:
- May 6, 1808
Date of death:
- Aug 19, 1895 (age 87 years)
Joseph Rucker Lamar
Joseph Rucker Lamar (October 15, 1857 – January 2, 1916) was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court appointed by President William Howard Taft. A cousin of former associate justice Lucius Lamar, he served from 1911 until his death...
Date of birth:
- Oct 15, 1857
Date of death:
- Jan 2, 1916 (age 58 years)
Pierce Butler
Pierce Butler (March 17, 1866 – November 16, 1939) was an American jurist who served as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1923 until his death in 1939. He is notable for being the first justice from Minnesota, and...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1866
Date of death:
- Nov 16, 1939 (age 73 years)
Samuel Freeman Miller
Samuel Freeman Miller (April 5, 1816 – October 13, 1890) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1862–1890.
Born in Richmond, Kentucky, Miller was the son of a farmer. He received a medical degree in 1838 from Transylvania...
Date of birth:
- Apr 5, 1816
Date of death:
- Oct 13, 1890 (age 74 years)
Rufus Wheeler Peckham
Rufus Wheeler Peckham (November 8, 1838 - October 24, 1909) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1895 until 1909. He was known for his strong use of substantive due process to invalidate regulations of business and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 8, 1838
Date of death:
- Oct 24, 1909 (age 71 years)
Stephen Johnson Field
Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 – April 9, 1899) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.
Born in Haddam,...
Date of birth:
- Nov 4, 1816
Date of death:
- Apr 9, 1899 (age 82 years)
Mahlon Pitney
Mahlon Pitney (February 5, 1858 – December 9, 1924) was an American jurist and Republican Party politician from New Jersey, who served in the United States Congress and as an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
Born in Morristown,...
Date of birth:
- Feb 5, 1858
Date of death:
- Dec 9, 1924 (age 66 years)
