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Twentieth-Century Justices of the Supreme Court

Chief Justices are italicized. A few Justices are listed twice: once for Associate Justice, once for Chief Justice. For more information on the Supreme Court visit the OYEZ Project -- a web site developed at Northwestern University -- containing deep archives of important arguments and opinion announcements.

Justice
Term
Years
Served
Life Span
Oliver W. Holmes
1902-1932
30
1841-1935
William R. Day
1903-1922
19
1849-1923
William H. Moody
1906-1910
3
1853-1917
Horace H. Lurton
1910-1914
4
1844-1914
Charles E. Hughes
1910-1916
5
1862-1948
Willis Van Devanter
1911-1937
26
1859-1941
Joseph R. Lamar
1911-1916
5
1857-1916
Edward D. White
1910-1921
11
1845-1921
Mahlon Pitney
1912-1922
10
1858-1924
James C. McReynolds
1914-1941
26
1862-1946
Louis D. Brandeis
1916-1939
22
1856-1941
John H. Clarke
1916-1922
6
1857-1930
William H. Taft
1921-1930
8
1857-1945
George Sutherland
1922-1938
15
1862-1942
Pierce Butler
1922-1939
16
1866-1939
Edward T. Sandford
1923-1930
7
1865-1930
Harlan F. Stone
1925-1941
16
1872-1946
Charles E. Hughes
1930-1941
11
1862-1948
Justice
Term
Years
Served
Life Span
Owen J. Roberts
1930-1945
15
1875-1955
Benjamin N. Cardozo
1932-1938
6
1870-1938
Hugo L. Black
1937-1971
34
1886-1971
Stanley F. Reed
1938-1957
19
1884-1980
Felix Frankfurter
1939-1962
23
1882-1965
William O. Douglas
1939-1975
36
1898-1980
Frank Murphy
1940-1949
9
1890-1949
Harlan F. Stone
1941-1946
5
1872-1946
James F. Byrnes
1941-1942
1
1879-1972
Robert H. Jackson
1941-1954
13
1892-1954
Wiley B. Rutledge
1943-1949
6
1894-1949
Harold H. Burton
1945-1958
13
1888-1964
Fred M. Vinson
1946-1953
7
1890-1953
Tom C. Clark
1949-1967
18
1899-1977
Sherman Minton
1949-1956
7
1890-1965
Earl Warren
1953-1969
16
1891-1974
John Marshall Harlan
1955-1971
16
1899-1971
William J. Brennan, Jr.
1956-1990
34
1906-1997
Justice
Term
Years
Served
Life Span
Charles E. Whittaker
1957-1962
5
1901-1973
Potter Stewart
1958-1981
23
1915-1985
Byron R. White
1962-1993
31
1917-
Arthur J. Goldberg
1962-1965
3
1908-1990
Abe Fortas
1965-1969
4
1910-1982
Thurgood Marshall
1967-1991
24
1908-1993
Warren E. Burger
1969-1986
17
1907-1995
Harry A. Blackmun
1970-1994
24
1908-
Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
1972-1987
15
1907-
William H. Rehnquist
1972-1986
14
1924-
John P. Stevens, III
1975-
--
1920-
Sandra Day O'Connor
1981-
--
1930-
William H. Rehnquist
1986-
--
1924-
Antonin Scalia
1986-
--
1936-
Anthony M. Kennedy
1988-
--
1936-
David Souter
1990-
--
1939-
Clarence Thomas
1991-
--
1948-
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
1993-
--
1933-
Stephen G. Breyer
1994-
--
1938-

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