Every Supreme Court seat, 1789 to today Each row is a seat. Bars are justices' tenures;
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← The Court on November 7, 2026 Vacant 11 days September 24, 1789 – October 5, 1789 James Wilson 1789–1798 · 8 years, 10 months ·
Washington Vacant 80 days August 21, 1798 – November 9, 1798 Bushrod Washington 1798–1829 · 31 years ·
J. Adams Vacant 53 days November 26, 1829 – January 18, 1830 Henry Baldwin 1830–1844 · 14 years, 3 months ·
Jackson Vacant 841 days April 21, 1844 – August 10, 1846 Robert Cooper Grier 1846–1870 · 23 years, 5 months ·
Polk Vacant 42 days January 31, 1870 – March 14, 1870 William Strong 1870–1880 · 10 years, 9 months ·
Grant Vacant 22 days December 14, 1880 – January 5, 1881 William Burnham Woods 1881–1887 · 6 years, 4 months ·
Hayes Vacant 249 days May 14, 1887 – January 18, 1888 Lucius Quintus C. Lamar 1888–1893 · 5 years ·
Cleveland Vacant 40 days January 23, 1893 – March 4, 1893 Howell Edmunds Jackson 1893–1895 · 2 years, 5 months ·
B. Harrison Vacant 151 days August 8, 1895 – January 6, 1896 Rufus Wheeler Peckham 1896–1909 · 13 years, 9 months ·
Cleveland Vacant 71 days October 24, 1909 – January 3, 1910 Horace Harmon Lurton 1910–1914 · 4 years, 6 months ·
Taft Vacant 92 days July 12, 1914 – October 12, 1914 James Clark McReynolds 1914–1941 · 26 years, 3 months ·
Wilson Vacant 158 days January 31, 1941 – July 8, 1941 James Francis Byrnes 1941–1942 · 1 year, 2 months ·
F. Roosevelt Vacant 135 days October 3, 1942 – February 15, 1943 Wiley Blount Rutledge 1943–1949 · 6 years, 6 months ·
F. Roosevelt Vacant 32 days September 10, 1949 – October 12, 1949 Sherman Minton 1949–1956 · 7 years ·
Truman Vacant 1 day October 15, 1956 – October 16, 1956 William J. Brennan, Jr. 1956–1990 · 33 years, 9 months ·
Eisenhower Vacant 81 days July 20, 1990 – October 9, 1990 David H. Souter 1990–2009 · 18 years, 8 months ·
G.H.W. Bush Vacant 40 days June 29, 2009 – August 8, 2009 Sonia Sotomayor 2009–present · 17 years, 2 months ·
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