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Senators Who Served on the Supreme Court


Name (Party-State)

Senate Service

Supreme Court Service

Sherman Minton (D-IN)

1935-1941

1949-1956

Harold H. Burton (R-OH)

1941-1945

1945-1958

James F. Byrnes (D-SC)

1931-1941

1941-1942

Hugo L. Black (D-AL)

1927-1937

1937-1971

George Sutherland (R-UT)

1905-1917

1922-1938

Edward D. White (D-LA)

1891-1894

1894-1921 (Chief Justice 1910-1921)

Howell E. Jackson (D-TN)

1881-1886

1893-1895

Lucius Q. C. Lamar (D-MS)

1877-1885

1888-1893

Stanley Matthews (R-OH)

1877-1879

1881-1889

Salmon P. Chase (FS/R-OH)

1849-1855

1864-1873 Chief Justice

David Davis* (I-IL)

1877-1883

1862-1877

Levi Woodbury (J/D-NH)

1825-1831; 1841-1845

1845-1851

John McKinley (J/D-AL)

1826-1831; 1837

1837-1852

Oliver Ellsworth (Pro-admin/F-CT)

1789-1796

1796-1800 Chief Justice

William Paterson (Pro-Admin-NJ)

1789-1790

1793-1806