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Chief Justice of the United States
The Chief Justice of the United States is the head of the United States federal court system (the judicial branch of the federal government of the United States) and the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States. He is one of nine Supreme Court justices; the other eight are the...
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John Jay
John Jay (December 12, 1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American politician, statesman, revolutionary, diplomat, a Founding Father of the United States, President of the Continental Congress from 1778 to 1779 and, from 1789 to 1795, the first Chief...
Date of birth:
- Dec 12, 1745
Date of death:
- May 17, 1829 (age 83 years)
John Rutledge
John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – July 18, 1800) was an American statesman and judge. He was the first Governor of South Carolina following the signing of the Declaration of Independence. For a time, he held dictatorial powers in that state. He...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1739
Date of death:
- Jul 18, 1800 (age 60 years)
Oliver Ellsworth
Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807), an American lawyer and politician, was a revolutionary against British rule, a drafter of the United States Constitution, and third Chief Justice of the United States. On June 20, 1787, while at...
Date of birth:
- Apr 29, 1745
Date of death:
- Nov 26, 1807 (age 62 years)
John Marshall
John Marshall (September 24, 1755 – July 6, 1835) was an American statesman and jurist who shaped American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court a center of power. Marshall was Chief Justice of the United States, serving from February 4,...
Date of birth:
- Sep 24, 1755
Date of death:
- Jul 6, 1835 (age 79 years)
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Roger Brooke Taney
Roger Brooke Taney was born March 17, 1777 on the Taney Plantation along the Patuxent River, in Maryland's Calvert County. The Taney family had come to the colony as indentured servants in the mid-seventeenth century but, after serving out their...
Date of birth:
- Mar 17, 1777
Date of death:
- Oct 12, 1864 (age 87 years)
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Salmon P. Chase
Salmon Portland Chase (January 13, 1808 – May 7, 1873) was an American politician and jurist in the Civil War era who served as U.S. Senator from Ohio and Governor of Ohio; as U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Abraham Lincoln; and as Chief...
Date of birth:
- Jan 13, 1808
Date of death:
- May 7, 1873 (age 65 years)
Morrison Waite
Morrison Remick Waite, nicknamed "Mott" (November 29, 1816 – March 23, 1888) was the Chief Justice of the United States from 1874 to 1888.
He was born at Lyme, Connecticut, the son of Henry Matson Waite, who was a judge of the Superior Court and...
Date of birth:
- Nov 29, 1816
Date of death:
- Mar 23, 1888 (age 71 years)
Melville Fuller
Melville Weston Fuller (February 11, 1833 – July 4, 1910) was the Chief Justice of the United States between 1888 and 1910.
Fuller was born in Augusta, Maine. Both his maternal grandfather, Nathan Weston and paternal grandfather, Henry Weld Fuller...
Date of birth:
- Feb 11, 1833
Date of death:
- Jul 4, 1910 (age 77 years)
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th President of the United States and later the 10th Chief Justice of the United States.
Born in 1857 in Cincinnati, Ohio, into the powerful Taft family, Taft graduated from Yale...
Date of birth:
- Sep 15, 1857
Date of death:
- Mar 8, 1930 (age 72 years)
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Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White, Jr. (November 3, 1845 – May 19, 1921), American politician and jurist, was a United States senator, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court and the ninth Chief Justice of the United States. He was best known for...
Date of birth:
- Nov 3, 1845
Date of death:
- May 19, 1921 (age 75 years)
Charles Evans Hughes
Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was a lawyer and Republican politician from the State of New York. He served as Governor of New York (1907-1910), United States Secretary of State (1921-1925), Associate Justice of the...
Date of birth:
- Apr 11, 1862
Date of death:
- Aug 27, 1948 (age 86 years)
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Harlan Fiske Stone
Harlan Fiske Stone (October 11, 1872 – April 22, 1946) was an American lawyer and jurist. A native of New Hampshire he served as the dean of Columbia Law School, his alma mater in the early 20th century. As a member of the Republican Party, he was...
Date of birth:
- Oct 11, 1872
Date of death:
- Apr 22, 1946 (age 73 years)
Fred M. Vinson
Frederick Moore Vinson (January 22, 1890 – September 8, 1953) served the United States in all three branches of government and was the most prominent member of the Vinson political family. In the legislative branch, he was an elected member of the...
Date of birth:
- Jan 22, 1890
Date of death:
- Sep 8, 1953 (age 63 years)
Earl Warren
Earl Warren (March 19, 1891 – July 9, 1974) was the 14th Chief Justice of the United States and is to date the only person elected Governor of California three times. Prior to holding these positions, Warren served as a district attorney for Alameda...
Date of birth:
- Mar 19, 1891
Date of death:
- Jul 9, 1974 (age 83 years)
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Warren E. Burger
Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 - June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. Although Burger had conservative leanings, the U.S. Supreme Court delivered a variety of transformative and controversial decisions on...
Date of birth:
- Sep 17, 1907
Date of death:
- Jun 25, 1995 (age 87 years)
William Rehnquist
William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer, jurist, and a political figure who served as an Associate Justice on the Supreme Court of the United States and later as the Chief Justice of the United States....
Date of birth:
- Oct 1, 1924
Date of death:
- Sep 3, 2005 (age 80 years)
John Roberts
John Glover Roberts, Jr. (born January 27, 1955) is the 17th and current Chief Justice of the United States. He has served since 2005, having been nominated by President George W. Bush after the death of former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. He is...
Date of birth:
- Jan 27, 1955 (age 54 years)
