NUMBER OF U.S. SUPREME COURT JUSTICES APPOINTED GRAPH BY WWW.SPUDART.ORG BLACK: NUMBER APPOINTED IN THAT YEAR RED: NUMBER APPOINTED BY PRESIDENT BLUE: TOTAL JUSTICES IN SUPREME COURT 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 6 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1790 John Jay - New York, James Wilson - Pennsylvania 1789 William Cushing - Massachusetts; John Rutledge - South Carolina; 1790 John Blair, Jr. - Virginia; James Iredell - North Carolina 1791 Thomas Johnson - Maryland 1792 William Paterson - New Jersey 1793 11 George Washington 1794 John Rutledge1 - South Carolina 1795 Oliver Ellsworth - Connecticut; Samuel Chase - Maryland 1796 1797 1798 Bushrod Washington - Virginia 1799 Alfred Moore - North Carolina 1800 3 John Adams John Marshall - Virginia 1801 1802 1803 William Johnson - South Carolina 1804 1805 3 Thomas Jefferson 1806 Henry Brockholst Livingston - New York; Thomas Todd - Kentucky 1807 7 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1807 1808 1809 1810 Gabriel Duvall - Maryland 1811 Joseph Story - Massachusetts 1812 1813 2 James Madison 1814 1815 1816 1817 1818 1819 1820 1 James Monroe 1821 1822 Smith Thompson - New York 1823 1824 1825 Robert Trimble - Kentucky 1826 1827 1 John Quincy Adams 1828 1829 John McLean - Ohio; Henry Baldwin - Pennsylvania 1830 1831 1832 1833 5 Andrew Jackson 1834 James Wayne - Georgia 1835 Philip Barbour - Virginia; Roger Taney - Maryland 1836 John Catron - Tennessee 1837 John McKinley - Alabama 1838 9 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1837 1839 3 1840 Martin Van Buren 1841 Peter Daniel - Virginia 1842 0 William H. Harrison 1843 1844 1 John Tyler Samuel Nelson - New York; Levi Woodbury - New Hampshire 1845 Robert Grier - Pennsylvania 1846 1847 2 James Polk 1848 1849 1850 0 Zachary Taylor Benjamin Curtis - Massachusetts 1851 1852 1 Millard Fillmore John Campbell - Alabama 1853 1854 1855 1 Franklin Pierce 1856 1857 Nathan Clifford - Maine 1858 1859 1 James Buchanan 1860 1861 Noah Swayne - Ohio; Samuel Miller - Iowa; David Davis - Illinois 1862 Stephen Field - California 1863 5 Abraham Lincoln 10 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1863 Salmon P. Chase - Ohio 1864 1865 1866 9 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1866 1867 0 Andrew Johnson 1868 8 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1867 1869 William Strong - Pennsylvania; Joseph Bradley - New Jersey 1870 9 TOTAL JUSTICES IN 1869-NOW 1871 1872 Ward Hunt - New York 1873 4 Ulysses S. Grant Morrison Waite - Ohio 1874 1875 1876 John Marshall Harlan - Kentucky 1877 William Woods - Georgia; Stanley Matthews - Ohio 1881 1 JamesRutherford Garfield B. Hayes Horace Gray - Massachusetts; Samuel Blatchford - New York 1882 1883 2 Chester Arthur 1884 1885 1886 1887 2 (4) Grover Cleveland Lucius Lamar - Mississippi; Melville Fuller - Illinois 1888 1889 David Brewer - Kansas 1890 Henry Brown - Michigan 1891 4 Benjamin Harrison George Shiras, Jr. - Pennsylvania 1892 Howell Jackson - Tennessee 1893 Edward Douglass White - Louisiana 1894 1895 2 (4) Grover Cleveland Rufus Peckham - New York 1896 1897 Joseph McKenna - California 1898 1899 1 William McKinley 1900 1901 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. - Massachusetts 1902 William Day - Ohio 1903 1904 1905 3 Theodore Roosevelt William Moody - Massachusetts 1906 1907 1908 1909 Horace Lurton - Tennessee; Charles Evans Hughes - New York 1910 Willis Van Devanter - Wyoming; Joseph Lamar - Georgia 1911 5 William H. Taft Mahlon Pitney - New Jersey 1912 1913 James McReynolds - Tennessee 1914 1915 Louis Brandeis - Massachusetts; John Clarke - Ohio 1916 1917 3 Woodrow Wilson 1918 1919 1920 William Taft - Connecticut 1921 George Sutherland - Utah 1922 4 Warren Harding Pierce Butler - Minnesota; Edward Sanford - Tennessee 1923 1924 Harlan Fiske Stone - New York 1925 1926 1 Calvin Coolidge 1927 1928 1929 Owen Roberts - Pennsylvania; Charles Evans Hughes - New York 1930 1931 2 Herbert Hoover Benjamin Cardozo - New York 1932 1933 1934 1935 ATTEMPTED TO RAISE TO 15 IN 1937 1936 Hugo Black - Alabama 1937 Stanley Reed - Kentucky 1938 Felix Frankfurter - Massachusetts; William Douglas - Connecticut 1939 8 Franklin D. Roosevelt Frank Murphy - Michigan 1940 James F. Byrnes - South Carolina; Robert Jackson - New York 1941 1942 Wiley Rutledge - Iowa 1943 1944 Harold Burton - Ohio 1945 Fred Vinson - Kentucky 1946 1947 1948 Tom Clark - Texas; Sherman Minton - Indiana 1949 4 Harry S. Truman 1950 1951 1952 Earl Warren - California 1953 1954 John Marshall Harlan - New York 1955 William J. Brennan, Jr. - New Jersey 1956 Charles Whittaker - Missouri 1957 5 Dwight Eisenhower Potter Stewart - Ohio 1958 1959 1960 1961 Byron White - Colorado; Arthur Goldberg - Illinois 1962 2 John F. Kennedy 1963 1964 Abe Fortas - Tennessee 1965 1966 2 Lyndon Johnson Thurgood Marshall - New York 1967 1968 4 presidents have made Warren Burger - Virginia 1969 zero appointments Harry Blackmun - Minnesota 1970 11 presidents have made 1971 4 Richard Nixon Lewis F. Powell, Jr. - Virginia; William Rehnquist - Arizona 1972 one appointment 1973 1974 9 presidents have made John Paul Stevens - Illinois 1975 1976 1 Gerald Ford two appointments 1977 1978 6 presidents have made 1979 0 James Carter 1980 three appointments Sandra Day O'Connor - Arizona 1981 1982 6 presidents have made 1983 four appointments 1984 1985 3 Ronald Reagan Antonin Scalia - Virginia 1986 4 presidents have made 1987 Anthony Kennedy - California 1988 five appointments 1989 David Souter - New Hampshire 1990 2 presidents have made Clarence Thomas - Georgia 1991 2 George Bush six plus appointments 1992 Ruth Bader Ginsburg - New York 1993 Stephen Breyer - Massachusetts 1994 1995 1996 1997 2 William Clinton 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 1 George W. Bush 2004 ©2005 Matt Maldre. All rights reserved. 2005 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16