To: TomGuy
Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this.
27 posted on
09/05/2005 4:51:42 AM PDT by
The Mayor
( Pray as if everything depends on God; work as if everything depends on you.)
To: The Mayor
Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this.Me either - but I'll venture a guess he is looking at retiring in a couple\few years or so and can't make the commitment?
64 posted on
09/05/2005 5:05:05 AM PDT by
quantim
(Victory is not relative, it is absolute.)
To: The Mayor
"Should be Scalia... Not sure what to think of this."
CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE US SUPREME COURT
NAME |
STATE |
APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT |
DATE OF JUDICIAL OATH AS CHIEF |
DATE SERVICE TERMINATED |
SERVICE AS ASSOCIATE |
John Jay |
New York |
George Washington |
10-19-1789 |
6-29-1795 |
NA |
John Rutledge |
South Carolina |
George Washington |
8-12-1795 |
10-15-1795 |
2-15-1790 to 3-5-1791 |
Oliver Ellsworth |
Connecticut |
George Washington |
3-8-1796 |
10-15-1800 |
NA |
John Marshall |
Virginia |
John Adams |
2-4-1801 |
7-6-1835 |
NA |
Robert Brook Taney |
Maryland |
Andrew Jackson |
3-28-1836 |
10-12-1864 |
NA |
Salmon Portland Chase |
Ohio |
Abraham Lincoln |
10-15-1864 |
5-7-1873 |
NA |
Morrison Remick Waite |
Ohio |
Ulysses S. Grant |
3-4-1874 |
3-23-1888 |
NA |
Melville Weston Fuller |
Illinois |
Grover Cleveland |
10-8-1888 |
7-4-1910 |
NA |
Edward Douglass White |
Louisiana |
William Taft |
12-19-1910 |
5-19-1921 |
3-12-1894 to 12-18-1910 |
William Howard Taft |
Connecticut |
Warren Harding |
7-11-1921 |
2-3-1930 |
NA |
Charles Evans Hughes |
New York |
Herbert Hoover |
2-24-1930 |
6-30-1941 |
10-10-1910 to 6-10-1916 |
Harlan Fiske Stone |
New York |
Franklin D. Roosevelt |
7-3-1941 |
4-22-1946 |
3-2-1925 to 7-2-1941 |
Fred Moore Vinson |
Kentucky |
Harry Truman |
9-24-1946 |
9-8-1953 |
NA |
Earl Warren |
California |
Dwight D. Eisenhower |
10-5-1953 |
6-23-1969 |
NA |
Earl Warren Burger |
Virginia |
Richard Nixon |
6-23-1969 |
9-26-1986 |
NA |
William Rehnquist |
Virginia |
Ronald Reagan |
9-26-1986 |
9-3-2005 |
1-7-1972 to 9-26-1986 |
? |
? |
George W. Bush |
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INTERESTING POINTS
- To date, there have been 16 Chief Justices of the US Supreme Court.
- Of the 16 Chief Justices, 11 were nominated directly to the position from outside the court.
- Of the 16 Chief Justices, 5 had previously been associate justices on the bench.
- John Rutledge had been an associate and left the court with just over 1 year of service, only to return as the 2nd Chief Justice.
- Charles Evans Hughes had served almost six years on the bench as an associate (1910-16), only to leave the bench and return about 14 years later as Chief Justice.
- Chief Justices Edward Douglass White, Harlan Fiske Stone, & William Rehnquist are the only 3 chiefs to ever be elevated directly from acting Associate Justice to the position of Chief Justice.
- Only 3 of the last 8 Chief Justices were appointed while actively serving as an Associate Justice.
- President George Washington is the only president to appoint more than one Chief Justice, and he appointed 3.
- It was not until Salmon P. Chase took the oath as Chief Justice that a chief was placed in his role within three days of the vacancy. He was the 6th Chief Justice.
- Approximately 55 years after Chase became Chief Justice, Charles Evans Hughes was installed as Chief Justice within 30 days of the vacancy. He was the 11th Chief Justice. No justice between them took office in less than 30 days of a vacancy.
- The last two Chief Justices each took the oath as Chief Justice on the day a vacancy occurred in the Chief Justices slot.
- The last three openings as Chief Justice were filled in less than 30 days.
- Only John Marshall served more than 30 years as Chief Justice. He serve a little over 34 years. His period of serve spanned a period of six US Presidents.
- Robert Brook Taney and Melville Weston Fuller are the only other men to serve over 20 years as Chief Justice. Taney served more than 28 years and Fuller served over 21 years.
- Chief Justice Taney's period of service spanned a period of 10 US Presidents.
- John Rutledge served two times on the bench: once as an associate and once as the Chief Justice. His total time on the court was about 15 months.
- Chief Justice Taft is the only Chief Justice to have served previously as President of the United States. He served one term as president (1909-13) and took his place on the bench as Chief Justice just 8 years after his presidency ended. He replaced Chief Justice Edward Douglass White, who he nominated to the same position.
- The last Chief Justice to die (before Rehnquist) was Fred Vinson, who died in 1953.
200 posted on
09/05/2005 6:02:22 AM PDT by
AlGone2001
(Two supreme court vacancies. Hopefully more on the way.)
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