Senate Chamber Desks
Desk Occupants: Senators Who Served on the U.S. Supreme Court
The table below documents the desks known to have been used by members of the U.S. Senate who also served on the U.S. Supreme Court. It includes only senators who served after 1819, the year the Senate acquired the earliest of the Senate Chamber desks that are still in use today.
| Desk | Senator | State | Party | Senate Service |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 37 (XXXVII)
56 (LVI) 61 (LXI) 85 (LXXXV) 88 (LXXXVIII) | Hugo L. Black | Alabama | D | 1927–1937 |
| 33 (XXXIII)
59 (LIX) | James F. Byrnes | South Carolina | D | 1931–1941 |
| 73 (LXXIII)
80 (LXXX) | Harold H. Burton | Ohio | R | 1941–1945 |
| Unidentified* | Salmon P. Chase | Ohio | FS, R | 1849–1855 |
| Unidentified* | David Davis | Illinois | I | 1877–1883 |
| Unidentified* | Howell E. Jackson | Tennessee | D | 1881–1886 |
| Unidentified* | Lucius Q. C. Lamar | Mississippi | D | 1877–1885 |
| Unidentified* | Stanley Matthews | Ohio | R | 1877–1879 |
| Unidentified* | John McKinley | Alabama | J, D | 1826–1831; 1837 |
| 78 (LXXVIII) | Sherman Minton | Indiana | D | 1935–1941 |
| Unidentified* | George Sutherland | Utah | R | 1905–1917 |
| Unidentified* | Edward D. White | Louisiana | D | 1891–1894 |
| Unidentified* | Levi Woodbury | New Hampshire | J, D | 1825–1831; 1841–1845 |
