1787 A proposed constitution is made public. It includes bi-cameral legislators, a supreme court, and an executive branch. http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/constitution-workshop/

Supreme Court Justice James Wilson 1789-1798 and signer of the Declaration of Independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wilson

Supreme Court Chief Justice John Jay 1789-1795, signer of the Declaration of Independence http://www.oyez.org/justices/john_jay/

Supreme Court Justice William Cushing 1790-1810 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cushing

Supreme Court Justice John Blair 1790-1795 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Blair

Supreme Court Justice John Rutledge 1790-1791 Chief 1795-1795 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutledge

Supreme Court Justice James Iredell 1790-1799 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Iredell

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Johnson 1792-1793 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/005.html

Supreme Court Justice William Patterson 1793-1806 http://www.gwu.edu/~ffcp/exhibit/p6/index.html

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase 1796-1811 signer of the Declaration of Independence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Chase

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Ellsworth as Chief 1796-1800 http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/history/judiciary/judiary_act_of_1789.htm

Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington 1799-1829 nephew of George Washington http://www.historycentral.com/bio/nn/washbus.html

Supreme Court Justice Alfred Moore 1800-1804 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/moore.htm

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall as Chief 1801-1835 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marshall-john-engraving-after-inman-harvard-legal.png

Supreme Court Justice William Johnson 1804-1834 http://www.scencyclopedia.com/johnson.htm

Supreme Court Justice Henry Brockholst Livingston 1807-1823 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Brockholst_Livingston

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Todd 1807-1826 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Todd

Supreme Court Justice Gabriel Duvall 1811-1835 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/013.html

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story 1812-1845 http://www.nndb.com/people/495/000050345/

Speaker of the House Philip Pendleton Barbour 1821-1823, Supreme Court Justice 1836-1841 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000131

Supreme Court Justice Smith Thompson 1823-1843 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Thompson

Supreme Court Justice Robert Trimble 1826-1828 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Trimble

1841 Representative John Quincy Adams acted as defense lawyer before the Supreme_Court http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/

Supreme Court Justice John McLean 1830-1861 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mclean

Supreme Court Justice Henry Baldwin 1830-1844 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Baldwin_(judge)

Supreme Court Justice James Moore Wayne 1835-1867 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Moore_Wayne

Supreme Court Justice Roger B. Taney as Chief 1836-1864 http://www.nndb.com/people/424/000098130/

Supreme Court Justice Philip Pendleton Barbour 1836-1841 http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B000131

Supreme Court Justice John Catron 1837-1865 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Catron

Supreme Court Justice John McKinley 1838-1852 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKinley

Supreme Court Justice Peter Vivian Daniel 1842-1860 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Vivian_Daniel

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Nelson 1845-1872 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Nelson

Supreme Court Justice Levi Woodbury 1845-1851 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:LeviWoodbury.png

Supreme Court Justice Robert Cooper Grier 1846-1870 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Cooper_Grier

Supreme Court Justice Benjamin Robbins Curtis 1851-1857 http://www.impeach-andrewjohnson.com/ListOfIllustrations/BenjaminRCurtis.htm

Supreme Court Justice John Archibald Campbell 1853-1861 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Archibald_Campbell_-_Brady-Handy.jpg

Supreme Court Justice Nathan Clifford 1858-1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_Clifford

Supreme Court Justice Noah Haynes Swayne 1862-1881 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noah_Haynes_Swayne

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Freeman Miller 1862-1890 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Freeman_Miller

Supreme Court Justice David Davis 1862-1877 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Davis_(Supreme_Court_justice)

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Johnson Field 1863-1897 http://www.usdoj.gov/marshals/history/neagle/neagle6.htm

Supreme Court Justice Salmon P. Chase as Chief 1864-1873 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmon_P._Chase

Supreme Court Justice William Strong 1870-1880 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Strong_(judge)

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Philo Bradley 1870-1892 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_Philo_Bradley_-_Brady-Handy.jpg

Supreme Court Justice Ward Hunt 1873-1882 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ward_Hunt

Supreme Court Justice Morrison Waite as Chief 1874-1888 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morrison_Waite

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan 1877-1911 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Marshall_Harlan-LC-DIG-cwpbh-03603_dusted.jpg

1881 Supreme Court Justice William Burnham Woods 1881-1887 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/woods.htm

Supreme Court Justice Thomas Stanley Matthews 1881-1889 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Stanley_Matthews

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan 1877-1911 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan

Supreme Court Justice Horace Gray 1882-1902 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/040.html

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Blatchford 1882-1893 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2002/Justices.html

Supreme Court Justice Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar 1888-1893 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lucius_Quintus_Cincinnatus_Lamar.png

Supreme Court Justice Melville Fuller 1888-1910 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_chiefs/008.html

Supreme Court Justice David Josiah Brewer 1890-1910 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Josiah_Brewer

Supreme Court Justice Henry Billings Brown 1891-1906 http://www.corbisimages.com/Enlargement/IH178802.html

Supreme Court Justice George Shiras, Jr. 1892-1903 http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Shiras,+George,+Jr.

Supreme Court Justice Howell Edmunds Jackson 1893-1895 http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Jackson,+Howell+Edmunds

Supreme Court Justice Edward Douglass White as Chief 1894-1921 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Douglass_White

Supreme Court Justice Rufus Wheeler Peckham 1896-1909 http://www.courts.state.ny.us/history/elecbook/chadbourne_coa/pg8.htm

Supreme Court Justice Joseph McKenna 1898-1925 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/mckenna.htm

Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1902-1932 http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/internet/library/historical/eugenics/

Supreme Court Justice William R. Day 1903-1922 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_R._Day

Supreme Court Justice William Henry Moody 1906-1910 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Moody

Supreme Court Justice Horace Harmon Lurton 1910-1914 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/052.html

Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes 1910-1916 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/hughes.htm

Supreme Court Justice Willis Van Devanter 1911-1937 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willis_Van_Devanter

Supreme Court Justice Joseph Rucker Lamar 1911-1916 http://www.law.uga.edu/library/portraits/lamarj.html

Supreme Court Justice Mahlon Pitney 1912-1922 http://www.supremecourthistory.org/02_history/subs_timeline/images_associates/055.html

Former president Taft became Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1921 http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WLA_taft_William_Howard_Taft.jpg

Supreme Court Justice James Clark McReynolds 1914-1941 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/mcreynolds.htm

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis 1916-1939 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/haventohome/haven-home.html

Supreme Court Justice John Hessin Clarke 1916-1922 http://www.ohiojudicialcenter.org/j_h_clarke.asp

1916 Wilson re-elected. Presidential Candidate former NY Governor and former Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes had 254 votes vs 277 with running mate Charles W. Fairbanks. Huges later became Secretary of State (1921) and Chief Justice (1930). Charles Fairbanks was a former Vice President under Theodore Roosevelt http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/charles_hughes.html

Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft as Chief 1921-1930 http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/reform/jb_reform_taft_1_e.html

Supreme Court Justice George Sutherland 1922-1938 https://webspace.utexas.edu/rmc2289/NSL/3.ExecutivePowers.ppt

Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler 1923-1939 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/butler.htm

Supreme Court Justice Edward Terry Sanford 1923-1930 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Terry_Sanford

Supreme Court Justice Harlan Fiske Stone 1925-1941 Chief 1941-1946 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlan_Fiske_Stone

Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Hughes as Chief 1930-1941 http://c250.columbia.edu/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/charles_hughes.html

Supreme Court Justice Owen Josephus Roberts 19930-1945 http://www.archives.upenn.edu/histy/notables/political/pennsupreme.html

Supreme Court Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo 1932-1938 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2002/Justices.html

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 1937-1971 First Roosevelt Supreme Court appointment, shown with 8 future Roosevelt appointees. http://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=Hugo+Black+

Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black 1937-1971, as Chief 1971-1971 http://www.oyez.org/justices/hugo_l_black/

Supreme Court Justice Stanley Forman Reed 1938-1957 http://www.answers.com/topic/stanley-forman-reed

Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter 1939-1962 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pom.html

Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas 1939-1975 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pom.html

Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy 1940-1949 http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/list/235_pom.html

Supreme Court Justice Hoover appointee Harlan Fiske Stone elevated to Chief Justice 1941-1946 http://www.columbia.edu/cu/alumni/Magazine/Fall2002/Justices.html

Supreme Court Justice James F. Byrnes 1941-1942 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_F._Byrnes

Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson 1941-1954 http://www.kshs.org/research/topics/cultural/brown_kba/credits.htm

James Byrnes was one of FDR's Supreme Court nominees. Byrnes later became Truman's Secretary of State http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:James_Francis_Byrnes,_at_his_desk,_1943.jpg

Supreme Court Justice Wiley Blount Rutledge 1943-1949 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiley_Blount_Rutledge

James F. Byrnes, former Supreme Court Justice replaced Edward Stettinius, Jr. as Secretary of State July 3, 1945 http://www.byrnesscholars.org/perspectives/to%20jfb.htm

Supreme Court Justice Harold Hitz Burton 1945-1958 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Hitz_Burton

Supreme Court Justice Fred M. Vinson as Chief 1946-1953 http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~kylawren/FAMvinson.html

1948 Truman elected. Presidential Candidate NY Governor Thomas E. Dewey had 189 votes vs 303 for Truman. Dewey's running mate was California Governor Earl Warren. Warren was appointed as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court by Eisenhower in 1953 http://www.kipnotes.com/Harry%20S%20Truman.htm

Supreme Court Justice Tom C. Clark 1949-1967 http://www.oyez.org/justices/tom_c_clark

Supreme Court Justice Sherman Minton 1949-1956 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Minton

Supreme Court Justice Earl Warren as Chief 1953-1969 http://www.constitutioncenter.org/timeline/html/cw11_12268.html

Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II 1955-1971 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Marshall_Harlan_II

Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan 1956-1990 http://www.medialaw.org/Template.cfm?Section=Brennan_Award&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=2802

Supreme Court Justice Charles Evans Whittaker 1957-1962 http://www.michaelariens.com/ConLaw/justices/whittaker.htm

Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart 1958-1981 http://www.oyez.org/justices/potter_stewart/portrait/

Supreme Court Justice Byron White 1962-1993 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_White

Supreme Court Justice Arthur Goldberg 1962-1965 http://www.oyez.org/justices/arthur_j_goldberg/

1965 Arthur Goldberg resigned from the Supreme Court to become Ambassador to the United Nations http://www.lbjlib.utexas.edu/johnson/archives.hom/oralhistory.hom/GoldbergA/goldberg.asp

Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas 1965-1969 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Fortas

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall 1967-1991 http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/brown/brown-aftermath.html

Mrs. Burger, Warren E. Burger (the President's nominee for Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court) and President Nixon at the announcement of Burger's nomination. http://nixon.archives.gov/learn/gallery.html

Supreme Court Justice Warren E. Burger as Chief 1969-1986 http://www.mnhs.org/library/tips/history_topics/122warren_burger.html

Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun 1970-1994 http://www.loc.gov/rr/mss/blackmun/blackmun-ex-bib.html

Supreme Court Justice Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr. 1972-1987 http://www.law.harvard.edu/alumni/bulletin/backissues/fall98/article5.html

Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist 1972-1986, 1986-2005 as Chief http://www.nndb.com/people/984/000022918/

Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens 1975-Present http://www.search.com/reference/John_Paul_Stevens

President Ronald Reagan with Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor in 1981. http://teacher.scholastic.com/scholasticnews/indepth/supremecourt/articles/index.asp?article=voice&topic=0

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor 1981-2006 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor

Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist 1972-1986, 1986-2005 as Chief http://www.oyez.org/justices/william_h_rehnquist/portrait/

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia 1986-Present http://stockpix.com/stock/news/indexb.htm

President Ronald W. Reagan announces Judge Anthony M. Kennedy's nomination to the Supreme Court. White House Chief of Staff Howard Baker and Attorney General Edwin Meese III look on. http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/ken0-008

Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy 1988-Present http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/photocredit/achievers/ken0-002

Supreme Court Justice David Souter 1990-Present http://civilliberty.about.com/od/ussupremecourt/ig/Know-Your-Supreme-Court/Justice-David-Souter.htm

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas 1991-Present http://www.4law.co.il/shoftym1.htm

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993-Present http://www.wellesley.edu/PublicAffairs/Releases/1998/111098.html

Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer 1994-Present http://civilliberty.about.com/od/ussupremecourt/ig/Know-Your-Supreme-Court/Justice-Stephen-Breyer.htm

Supreme Court Justice John Roberts, Jr. as Chief 2005-Present http://www.nndb.com/people/746/000099449/

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito 2006-Present http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Alito

2008 President-elect Barack Obama visiting the Supreme Court and Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr. http://www.whitehouse.gov/slideshows/ThePresident-electVisitstheSupremeCourt/

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor 2009-Present http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/29/2639266.htm