The Supreme Court Justices

Illustrated Biographies, 1789–2012

Clare Cushman

• Publisher: CQ Press
• Year: 2012
• Print ISBN: 9781608718337, 9781608718320
• eBook ISBN: 9781452235349
• Edition: 3
• Topic: Law
• Subtopic: Law Biographies
• Index: Law

The Supreme Court Justices: Illustrated Biographies, 1789–2012, Third Edition, provides a single-volume reference profiling every Supreme Court justice from John Jay through Elena Kagan. An original essay on each justice paints a vivid picture of his or her individuality as shaped by family, education, pre-Court career, and the times in which he or she lived. Each biographical essay also presents an overview of the justice's jurisprudence, the major cases during his or her tenure, and the justice's relationships with the other members of the Court. Essays are arranged in the order of the justices' appointments. Lively anecdotes along with portraits, photographs, and political cartoons enrich the text and deepen readers' understanding of the justices and the Court. The volume includes an extensive bibliography and is indexed for easy research access.   

 

 

 New to this edition

•  Foreword by Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. 
•  Updated essays on sitting or recently retired members of the court 
•  New biographies for Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel A. Alito, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan

• A revised listing of members of the Supreme Court with appointment and confirmation dates —as new documents have come to light, the editor has reassessed the dates of service of several of the justices

• An updated bibliography with key sources on the Supreme Court and the justices
• All-new images replace nearly one fourth of the illustrations in this edition

There is no better reference than this updated new volume for insightful background and dynamic commentary on the individuals who have served on the Supreme Court of the United States. This is a vital reference work for researchers, students, and others interested in the Supreme Court's past, present, and future.

 

Editor Clare Cushman is director of publications for the Supreme Court Historical Society, a private nonprofit organization dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. The society accomplishes its mission by conducting educational programs of interest to legal practitioners, scholars, and the general public by supporting historical research, publishing books, journals, and electronic materials and by collecting antiques and artifacts related to the Court's history.

Table of contents

• THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES-FRONT COVER
• THE SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
• CONTENTS
• LIST OF BIOGRAPHIES
• FOREWORD
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• CREDITS
• INTRODUCTION
• John Jay 1789–1795
• John Rutledge 1790–1791, 1795
• William Cushing 1790–1810
• James Wilson 1789–1798
• John Blair, Jr. 1790–1796
• James Iredell 1790–1799
• Thomas Johnson 1791–1793
• William Paterson 1793–1806
• Samuel Chase 1796–1811
• Oliver Ellsworth 1796–1800
• Bushrod Washington 1798–1829
• Alfred Moore 1800–1804
• John Marshall 1801–1835
• William Johnson 1804–1834
• Brockholst Livingston 1807–1823
• Thomas Todd 1807–1826
• Gabriel Duvall 1811–1835
• Joseph Story 1812–1845
• Smith Thompson 1823–1843
• Robert Trimble 1826–1828
• John McLean 1829–1861
• Henry Baldwin 1830–1844
• James M. Wayne 1835–1867
• Roger B. Taney 1836–1864
• Philip P. Barbour 1836–1841
• John Catron 1837–1865
• John McKinley 1838–1852
• Peter V. Daniel 1842–1860
• Samuel Nelson 1845–1872
• Levi Woodbury 1845–1851
• Robert C. Grier 1846–1870
• Benjamin R. Curtis 1851–1857
• John A. Campbell 1853–1861
• Nathan Clifford 1858–1881
• Noah H. Swayne 1862–1881
• Samuel F. Miller 1862–1890
• David Davis 1862–1877
• Stephen J. Field 1863–1897
• Salmon P. Chase 1864–1873
• William Strong 1870–1880
• Joseph P. Bradley 1870–1892
• Ward Hunt 1873–1882
• Morrison R. Waite 1874–1888
• John Marshall Harlan 1877–1911
• William B. Woods 1881–1887
• Stanley Matthews 1881–1889
• Horace Gray 1882–1902
• Samuel Blatchford 1882–1893
• Lucius Q. C. Lamar 1888–1893
• Melville W. Fuller 1888–1910
• David J. Brewer 1890–1910
• Henry B. Brown 1891–1906
• George Shiras, Jr. 1892–1903
• Howell E. Jackson 1893–1895
• Edward Douglass White 1894–1910, 1910–1921
• Rufus W. Peckham 1896–1909
• Joseph McKenna 1898–1925
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. 1902–1932
• William R. Day 1903–1922
• William H. Moody 1906–1910
• Horace H. Lurton 1910–1914
• Charles Evans Hughes 1910–1916, 1930–1941
• Willis Van Devanter 1911–1937
• Joseph R. Lamar 1911–1916
• Mahlon Pitney 1912–1922
• James C. McReynolds 1914–1941
• Louis D. Brandeis 1916–1939
• John H. Clarke 1916–1922
• William Howard Taft 1921–1930
• George Sutherland 1922–1938
• Pierce Butler 1923–1939
• Edward T. Sanford 1923–1930
• Harlan Fiske Stone 1925–1941, 1941–1946
• Owen J. Roberts 1930–1945
• Benjamin N. Cardozo 1932–1938
• Hugo L. Black 1937–1971
• Stanley F. Reed 1938–1957
• Felix Frankfurter 1939–1962
• William O. Douglas 1939–1975
• Frank Murphy 1940–1949
• James F. Byrnes 1941–1942
• Robert H. Jackson 1941–1954
• Wiley B. Rutledge 1943–1949
• Harold H. Burton 1945–1958
• Fred M. Vinson 1946–1953
• Tom C. Clark 1949–1967
• Sherman Minton 1949–1956
• Earl Warren 1953–1969
• John Marshall Harlan 1955–1971
• William J. Brennan, Jr. 1956–1990
• Charles E. Whittaker 1957–1962
• Potter Stewart 1958–1981
• Byron R. White 1962–1993
• Arthur J. Goldberg 1962–1965
• Abe Fortas 1965–1969
• Thurgood Marshall 1967–1991
• Warren E. Burger 1969–1986
• Harry A. Blackmun 1970–1994
• Lewis F. Powell, Jr. 1972–1987
• William H. Rehnquist 1972–1986, 1986–2005
• John Paul Stevens 1975–2010
• Sandra Day O’Connor 1981–2006
• Antonin Scalia 1986–
• Anthony M. Kennedy 1988–
• David H. Souter 1990–2009
• Clarence Thomas 1991–
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg 1993–
• Stephen G. Breyer 1994–
• John G. Roberts, Jr. 2005–
• Samuel A. Alito, Jr. 2006–
• Sonia Sotomayor 2009–
• Elena Kagan 2010–
• MEMBERS OF THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
• AUTHOR AFFILIATIONS
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• General Sources on the Supreme Court and the Justices
• Sources on Individual Justices
• Books about the Supreme Court for Young Readers
• Books about Supreme Court Justices for Young Readers
• INDEX