|
Justice |
Age |
Started |
Retired |
President |
Leanings |
Reason for Departure |
|
Hugo
Black |
51 |
1937 |
1971 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Center-left |
Retired/Ill Health |
|
|
54 |
1938 |
1957 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Don't know |
Retired/Ill Health |
|
Felix
Frankfurter |
57 |
1939 |
1962 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Center-right |
Retired/Stroke |
|
William
Douglas |
41 |
1939 |
1975 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Center-left |
Retired/Stroke |
|
Frank
Murphy |
50 |
1940 |
1949 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Don't know |
Died |
|
James
Byrnes |
62 |
1941 |
1942 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Don't know |
Resigned/Other Government Work |
|
Robert
Jackson |
49 |
1942 |
1954 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Center-right |
Died |
|
Wiley
Rutledge |
49 |
1943 |
1949 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Don't know |
Died |
|
Harold
Burton |
57 |
1943 |
1958 |
Franklin Roosevelt |
Center |
Retired/Ill Health |
|
Fred
Vinson |
56 |
1946 |
1953 |
Harry Truman |
Center-right |
Died |
|
Tom Clark |
50 |
1949 |
1967 |
Harry Truman |
Center-right |
Retired/Son Named Attorney General |
|
|
59 |
1949 |
1956 |
Harry Truman |
Center-right |
Retired/Ill Health |
|
Earl
Warren |
62 |
1953 |
1969 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Center-left |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
John
Harlan |
56 |
1955 |
1971 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Center-right |
Retired/Password Announcer |
|
William
Brennan |
50 |
1956 |
1990 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Left |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
Charles
Whittaker |
56 |
1957 |
1962 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Center |
Resigned/Nervous Breakdown |
|
Potter
Stewart |
43 |
1958 |
1981 |
Dwight Eisenhower |
Center |
Resigned/Left Public Life |
|
Byron
White |
45 |
1962 |
1993 |
John Kennedy |
Center-right |
Resigned/Left Public Life |
|
Arthur
Goldberg |
54 |
1962 |
1965 |
John Kennedy |
Center-left |
Resigned/Other Government Work |
|
Abe
Fortas |
55 |
1965 |
1969 |
Lyndon Johnon |
Center-left |
Resigned/Criminal Investigation |
|
Thurgood |
59 |
1967 |
1991 |
Lyndon Johnon |
Left |
Retired/Ill Health |
|
Warren
Berger |
62 |
1969 |
1986 |
Richard Nixon |
Center-right |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
Harry
Blackmun |
62 |
1971 |
1994 |
Richard Nixon |
Center-left |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
Lewis
Powell |
65 |
1972 |
1987 |
Richard Nixon |
Center |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
William
Rehnquist |
48 |
1972 |
2005 |
Richard Nixon |
Right |
Died |
|
John
Stevens |
55 |
1975 |
|
Gerald Ford |
Center-left |
|
|
Sandra
O'Connor |
51 |
1981 |
2005 |
Ronald Reagan |
Center |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
Antonin Scalia |
50 |
1985 |
|
Ronald Reagan |
Right |
|
|
Anthony
Kennedy |
52 |
1987 |
|
Ronald Reagan |
Center |
|
|
David
Souter |
51 |
1990 |
|
George H.W. Bush |
Center-left |
Retired/Left Public Life |
|
Clarence
Thomas |
43 |
1991 |
|
George H.W. Bush |
Right |
|
|
Ruth
Bader Ginsburg |
60 |
1993 |
|
Bill Clinton |
Left |
|
|
Stephen Breyer |
56 |
1994 |
|
Bill Clinton |
Left |
|
|
John
Roberts |
50 |
2005 |
|
George W. Bush |
Center-right |
|
|
Samuel
Alito |
56 |
2005 |
|
George W. Bush |
Right |
|