Category: United States Supreme Court Justices

All Supreme Court Justices are listed here in chronological order by appointment date, but only those whose gravesites I have visited will have links with them.  An asterisk (*) indicates the person served as the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

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Appointed by George Washington
John Jay*

John Rutledge*

William Cushing

James Wilson


Appointed by George Washington
John Blair, Jr.

James Iredell

Thomas Johnson

William Paterson


Appointed by George Washington Appointed by John Adams
Samuel Chase

Oliver Ellsworth*

Bushrod Washington

Alfred Moore


Appointed by John Adams Appointed by Thomas Jefferson
John Marshall William Johnson

Henry Brockholst Livingston

Thomas Todd

Appointed by James Madison Appointed by James Monroe Appointed by John Quincy Adams
Gabriel Duvall

Joseph Story

Smith Thompson Robert Trimble

Appointed by Andrew Jackson
John McLean

Henry Baldwin

James Wayne

Roger B. Taney*


Appointed by Andrew Jackson Appointed by Martin Van Buren
Philip Barbour

John Catron

John McKinley

Peter Daniel


Appointed by John Tyler Appointed by James Knox Polk Appointed by Millard Fillmore
Samuel Nelson Levi Woodbury

Robert C. Grier

Benjamin R. Curtis

Appointed by Franklin Pierce Appointed by James Buchanan Appointed by Abraham Lincoln
John A. Campbell Nathan Clifford Noah H. Swayne

Samuel Miller


Appointed by Abraham Lincoln Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant
David Davis

Stephen J. Field

Salmon Chase*
William Strong

Appointed by Ulysses S. Grant Appointed by Rutherford Hayes
Joseph P. Bradley

Ward Hunt

Morrison Waite*
John M. Harlan I

Appointed by Rutherford Hayes Appointed by James Garfield Appointed by Chester Arthur
William B. Woods Stanley Matthews Horace Gray

Samuel Blatchford


Appointed by Grover Cleveland Appointed by Benjamin Harrison
Lucius Lamar

Melville Fuller*

David Brewer

Henry Billings Brown


Appointed by Benjamin Harrison Appointed by Grover Cleveland
George Shiras, Jr.

Howell E. Jackson

Edward D. White*

Rufus Peckham


Appointed by William McKinley Appointed by Theodore Roosevelt
Joseph McKenna Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

William R. Day

William H. Moody

Appointed by William Howard Taft
Horace H. Lurton

Charles E. Hughes*

Willis Van Devanter

Joseph R. Lamar


Appointed by William Howard Taft Appointed by Woodrow Wilson
Mahlon Pitney James C. McReynolds

Louis D. Brandeis

John H. Clarke

Appointed by Warren Harding
William Howard Taft*

George Sutherland

Pierce Butler

Edward T. Sanford


Appointed by Calvin Coolidge Appointed by Herbert Hoover Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harlan F. Stone* Owen J. Roberts

Benjamin Cardozo

Hugo Black

Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt
Stanley Reed

Felix Frankfurter

William Douglas

Frank Murphy


Appointed by Franklin D. Roosevelt Appointed by Harry Truman
James F. Byrnes

Robert H. Jackson

Wiley B. Rutledge
Harold H. Burton

Appointed by Harry Truman Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower
Fred M. Vinson*

Tom C. Clark

Sherman Minton
Earl Warren*

Appointed by Dwight D. Eisenhower
John M. Harlan II

William Brennan

Charles Whittaker

Potter Stewart


Appointed by John F. Kennedy Appointed by Lyndon B. Johnson
Byron R. White

Arthur Goldberg

Abe Fortas

Thurgood Marshall


Appointed by Richard Nixon
Warren Burger*

Harry Blackmun

Lewis F. Powell, Jr.

William Rehnquist*


Appointed by Gerald Ford Appointed by Ronald Reagan
John Paul Stevens (still living) Sandra Day O'Connor (still living)

Antonin Scalia (still living)

Anthony M. Kennedy (still living)

Appointed by George Bush Appointed by Bill Clinton
David H. Souter (still living)

Clarence Thomas (still living)

Ruth B. Ginsburg (still living)

Stephen G. Breyer (still living)


Appointed by George W. Bush    
John G. Roberts* (still living) Samuel Alito (still living)