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| Supreme Court Nominations, present-1789 (1789-present) |  |
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The Constitution requires the president to submit nominations to the Senate for its advice and consent.
Since the Supreme Court was established in 1789, presidents have submitted 158 nominations for the Court, including those for chief justice. Of this total,
122 were confirmed (7 declined to serve). This chart lists nominations officially submitted to the Senate.
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Nominee
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To Replace
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Nominated
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Vote
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Result & Date
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President George W. Bush |
| Samuel Alito, Jr. | | O'Connor | | Nov 10, 2005 | | 58-42
No.
2 | | C | | Jan 31, 2006 |
| Harriet Miers | | O'Connor | | Oct 7, 2005 | | | | W | | Oct 28, 2005 |
| John Roberts, Jr.1 | | Rehnquist | | Sep 6, 2005 | | 78-22
No.
245 | | C | | Sep 29, 2005 |
| John Roberts, Jr. | | O'Connor | | Jul 29, 2005 | | | | W | | Sep 6, 2005 |
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President Bill Clinton |
| Stephen Breyer | | Blackmun | | May 17, 1994 | | 87-9
No.
242 | | C | | Jul 29, 1994 |
| Ruth Bader Ginsburg | | White | | Jun 14, 1993 | | 96-3
No.
232 | | C | | Aug 3, 1993 |
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President George H.W. Bush |
| Clarence Thomas | | Marshall | | Jul 8, 1991 | | 52-48
No.
220 | | C | | Oct 15, 1991 |
| David Souter | | Brennan | | Jul 25, 1990 | | 90-9
No.
259 | | C | | Oct 2, 1990 |
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President Ronald Reagan |
| Anthony Kennedy | | Powell | | Nov 30, 1987 | | 97-0
No.
16 | | C | | Feb 3, 1988 |
| Robert Bork | | Powell | | Jul 1, 1987 | | 42-58
No.
348 | | R | | Oct 23, 1987 |
| Antonin Scalia | | Rehnquist | | Jun 24, 1986 | | 98-0
No.
267 | | C | | Sep 17, 1986 |
| William Rehnquist2 | | Burger | | Jun 20, 1986 | | 65-33
No.
266 | | C | | Sep 17, 1986 |
| Sandra Day O'Connor | | Stewart | | Aug 19, 1981 | | 99-0
No.
274 | | C | | Sep 21, 1981 |
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President Gerald Ford |
| John Paul Stevens | | Douglas | | Nov 28, 1975 | | 98-0
No.
603 | | C | | Dec 17, 1975 |
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President Richard Nixon |
| William Rehnquist | | Harlan | | Oct 22, 1971 | | 68-26
No.
450 | | C | | Dec 10, 1971 |
| Lewis Powell, Jr. | | Black | | Oct 22, 1971 | | 89-1
No.
439 | | C | | Dec 6, 1971 |
| Harry Blackmun | | Fortas | | Apr 15, 1970 | | 94-0
No.
143 | | C | | May 12, 1970 |
| G. Harrold Carswell | | Fortas | | Jan 19, 1970 | | 45-51
No.
122 | | R | | Apr 8, 1970 |
| Clement Haynsworth, Jr. | | Fortas | | Aug 21, 1969 | | 45-55
No.
154 | | R | | Nov 21, 1969 |
| Warren Burger3 | | Warren | | May 23, 1969 | | 74-3
No.
35 | | C | | Jun 9, 1969 |
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President Lyndon Johnson |
| Homer Thornberry | | Fortas | | Jun 26, 1968 | | | | N | | |
| Abe Fortas4 | | Warren | | Jun 26, 1968 | | | | W | | Oct 4, 1968 |
| Thurgood Marshall | | Clark | | Jun 13, 1967 | | 69-11
No.
240 | | C | | Aug 30, 1967 |
| Abe Fortas | | Goldberg | | Jul 28, 1965 | | V | | C | | Aug 11, 1965 |
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President John Kennedy |
| Arthur Goldberg | | Frankfurter | | Aug 31, 1962 | | V | | C | | Sep 25, 1962 |
| Byron White | | Whittaker | | Apr 3, 1962 | | V | | C | | Apr 11, 1962 |
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President Dwight Eisenhower |
| Potter Stewart | | Burton | | Jan 17, 1959 | | 70-17 | | C | | May 5, 1959 |
| Charles Whittaker | | Reed | | Mar 2, 1957 | | V | | C | | Mar 19, 1957 |
| William Brennan, Jr. | | Minton | | Jan 14, 1957 | | V | | C | | Mar 19, 1957 |
| John Harlan | | Jackson | | Jan 10, 1955 | | 71-11 | | C | | Mar 16, 1955 |
| John Harlan | | Jackson | | Nov 9, 1954 | | | | N | | |
| Earl Warren5 | | Vinson | | Jan 11, 1954 | | V | | C | | Mar 1, 1954 |
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President Harry Truman |
| Sherman Minton | | Rutledge | | Sep 15, 1949 | | 48-16 | | C | | Oct 4, 1949 |
| Tom Clark | | Murphy | | Aug 2, 1949 | | 73-8 | | C | | Aug 18, 1949 |
| Fred Vinson6 | | Stone | | Jun 6, 1946 | | V | | C | | Jun 20, 1946 |
| Harold Burton | | Roberts | | Sep 19, 1945 | | V | | C | | Sep 19, 1945 |
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President Franklin Roosevelt |
| Wiley Rutledge | | Byrnes | | Jan 11, 1943 | | V | | C | | Feb 8, 1943 |
| Robert Jackson | | Stone | | Jun 12, 1941 | | V | | C | | Jul 7, 1941 |
| James Byrnes | | McReynolds | | Jun 12, 1941 | | V | | C | | Jun 12, 1941 |
| Harlan Stone7 | | Hughes | | Jun 12, 1941 | | V | | C | | Jun 27, 1941 |
| Frank Murphy | | Butler | | Jan 4, 1940 | | V | | C | | Jan 16, 1940 |
| William Douglas | | Brandeis | | Mar 20, 1939 | | 62-4 | | C | | Apr 4, 1939 |
| Felix Frankfurter | | Cardozo | | Jan 5, 1939 | | V | | C | | Jan 17, 1939 |
| Stanley Reed | | Sutherland | | Jan 15, 1938 | | V | | C | | Jan 25, 1938 |
| Hugo Black | | Van Devanter | | Aug 12, 1937 | | 63-16 | | C | | Aug 17, 1937 |
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President Herbert Hoover |
| Benjamin Cardozo | | Holmes | | Feb 15, 1932 | | V | | C | | Feb 24, 1932 |
| Owen Roberts | | Sanford | | May 9, 1930 | | V | | C | | May 20, 1930 |
| John Parker | | Sanford | | Mar 21, 1930 | | 39-41 | | R | | May 7, 1930 |
| Charles Hughes8 | | Taft | | Feb 3, 1930 | | 52-26 | | C | | Feb 13, 1930 |
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President Calvin Coolidge |
| Harlan Stone | | McKenna | | Jan 5, 1925 | | 71-6 | | C | | Feb 5, 1925 |
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President Warren Harding |
| Edward Sanford | | Pitney | | Jan 24, 1923 | | V | | C | | Jan 29, 1923 |
| Pierce Butler | | Day | | Dec 5, 1922 | | 61-8 | | C | | Dec 21, 1922 |
| Pierce Butler | | Day | | Nov 21, 1922 | | | | N | | |
| George Sutherland | | Clarke | | Sep 5, 1922 | | V | | C | | Sep 5, 1922 |
| William Taft9 | | White | | Jun 30, 1921 | | V | | C | | Jun 30, 1921 |
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President Woodrow Wilson |
| John Clarke | | Hughes | | Jul 14, 1916 | | V | | C | | Jul 24, 1916 |
| Louis Brandeis | | Lamar | | Jan 28, 1916 | | 47-22 | | C | | Jun 1, 1916 |
| James McReynolds | | Lurton | | Aug 19, 1914 | | 44-6 | | C | | Aug 29, 1914 |
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President William Taft |
| Mahlon Pitney | | Harlan | | Feb 19, 1912 | | 50-26 | | C | | Mar 13, 1912 |
| Joseph Lamar | | Moody | | Dec 12, 1910 | | V | | C | | Dec 15, 1910 |
| Willis Van Devanter | | White | | Dec 12, 1910 | | V | | C | | Dec 15, 1910 |
| Edward White10 | | Fuller | | Dec 12, 1910 | | V | | C | | Dec 12, 1910 |
| Charles Hughes | | Brewer | | Apr 25, 1910 | | V | | C | | May 2, 1910 |
| Horace Lurton | | Peckham | | Dec 13, 1909 | | V | | C | | Dec 20, 1909 |
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President Theodore Roosevelt |
| William Moody | | Brown | | Dec 3, 1906 | | V | | C | | Dec 12, 1906 |
| William Day | | Shiras | | Feb 19, 1903 | | V | | C | | Feb 23, 1903 |
| Oliver Holmes | | Gray | | Dec 2, 1902 | | V | | C | | Dec 4, 1902 |
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President William McKinley |
| Joseph McKenna | | Field | | Dec 16, 1897 | | V | | C | | Jan 21, 1898 |
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President Grover Cleveland |
| Rufus Peckham | | Jackson | | Dec 3, 1895 | | V | | C | | Dec 9, 1895 |
| Edward White | | Blatchford | | Feb 19, 1894 | | V | | C | | Feb 19, 1894 |
| Wheeler Peckham | | Blatchford | | Jan 22, 1894 | | 32-41 | | R | | Feb 16, 1894 |
| William Hornblower | | Blatchford | | Dec 5, 1893 | | 24-30 | | R | | Jan 15, 1894 |
| William Hornblower | | Blatchford | | Sep 19, 1893 | | | | N | | |
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President Benjamin Harrison |
| Howell Jackson | | Lamar | | Feb 2, 1893 | | V | | C | | Feb 18, 1893 |
| George Shiras, Jr. | | Bradley | | Jul 19, 1892 | | V | | C | | Jul 26, 1892 |
| Henry Brown | | Miller | | Dec 23, 1890 | | V | | C | | Dec 29, 1890 |
| David Brewer | | Matthews | | Dec 4, 1889 | | 53-11 | | C | | Dec 18, 1889 |
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President Grover Cleveland |
| Melville Fuller11 | | Waite | | Apr 30, 1888 | | 41-20 | | C | | Jul 20, 1888 |
| Lucius Lamar | | Woods | | Dec 6, 1887 | | 32-28 | | C | | Jan 16, 1888 |
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President Chester Arthur |
| Samuel Blatchford | | Hunt | | Mar 13, 1882 | | V | | C | | Mar 22, 1882 |
| Roscoe Conkling | | Hunt | | Feb 24, 1882 | | 39-12 | | D | | Mar 2, 1882 |
| Horace Gray | | Clifford | | Dec 19, 1881 | | 51-5 | | C | | Dec 20, 1881 |
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President James Garfield |
| Stanley Matthews | | Swayne | | Mar 14, 1881 | | 24-23 | | C | | May 12, 1881 |
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President Rutherford Hayes |
| Stanley Matthews | | Swayne | | Jan 26, 1881 | | | | N | | |
| William Woods | | Strong | | Dec 15, 1880 | | 39-8 | | C | | Dec 21, 1880 |
| John Harlan | | Davis | | Oct 16, 1877 | | V | | C | | Nov 29, 1877 |
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President Ulysses Grant |
| Morrison Waite12 | | Chase | | Jan 19, 1874 | | 63-0 | | C | | Jan 21, 1874 |
| Caleb Cushing13 | | Chase | | Jan 9, 1874 | | | | W | | Jan 13, 1874 |
| George Williams14 | | Chase | | Dec 1, 1873 | | | | W | | Jan 8, 1874 |
| Ward Hunt | | Nelson | | Dec 3, 1872 | | V | | C | | Dec 11, 1872 |
| Joseph Bradley | | (new seat) | | Feb 7, 1870 | | 46-9 | | C | | Mar 21, 1870 |
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