ABSTRACT

First published in 1994. In the two centuries of governance under the Constitution, 105 men and two women have sat as justices on the nation’s highest tribunal, the Supreme Court of the United States. Each of them has brought some unique insights or talents to that position. Contributors to this volume were asked to concentrate on the judicial tenure of their subjects, and to interpret those careers and evaluate their importance. They were asked to deal with the pre-Court years only insofar as those experiences had a major impact on jurisprudence.

chapter |2 pages

Henry Baldwin

chapter |2 pages

Philip Pendleton Barbour

chapter |6 pages

Hugo Lafayette Black

chapter |4 pages

Hugo Lafayette Black

chapter |10 pages

Harry Andrew Blackmun

chapter |3 pages

John Blair, Jr.

chapter |4 pages

Samuel M. Blatchford

chapter |6 pages

Joseph Bradley

chapter |10 pages

Louis Dembitz Brandeis

chapter |12 pages

William Joseph Brennan, Jr.

chapter |5 pages

David Josiah Brewer

chapter |2 pages

Henry Billings Brown

chapter |8 pages

Warren Earl Burger

chapter |4 pages

Harold Hitz Burton

chapter |5 pages

Pierce Butler

chapter |1 pages

James Francis Byrnes

chapter |2 pages

John Archibald Campbell

chapter |4 pages

Benjamin Nathan Cardozo

chapter |6 pages

John Catron

chapter |6 pages

Salmon Portland Chase

chapter |6 pages

Samuel Chase

chapter |7 pages

Tom Campbell Clark

chapter |2 pages

John Hessin Clarke

chapter |2 pages

Nathan Clifford

chapter |2 pages

Benjamin Robbins Curtis

chapter |4 pages

William Cushing

chapter |4 pages

Peter Vivian Daniel

chapter |3 pages

David Davis

chapter |2 pages

William Rufus Day

chapter |11 pages

William Orville Douglas

chapter |2 pages

Gabriel Duvall

chapter |4 pages

Oliver Ellsworth

chapter |9 pages

Stephen Johnson Field

chapter |2 pages

Abe Fortas

chapter |12 pages

Felix Frankfurter

chapter |6 pages

Melville Weston Fuller

chapter |4 pages

Ruth Joan Bader Ginsburg

chapter |4 pages

Arthur Joseph Goldberg

chapter |5 pages

Horace Gray

chapter |2 pages

Robert Cooper Grier

chapter |10 pages

John Marshall Harlan

chapter |10 pages

John Marshall Harlan II

chapter |10 pages

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

chapter |11 pages

Charles Evans Hughes

chapter |2 pages

Ward Hunt

chapter |5 pages

James Iredell

chapter |2 pages

Howell Edmunds Jackson

chapter |6 pages

Robert Houghwout Jackson

chapter |7 pages

John Jay

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Thomas Johnson

chapter |4 pages

William Johnson

chapter |3 pages

Anthony Mcleod Kennedy

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Joseph Rucker Lamar

chapter |2 pages

Horace Harmon Lurton

chapter |2 pages

Joseph Mckenna

chapter |2 pages

John Mckinley

chapter |4 pages

John McLean

chapter |4 pages

James Clark Mcreynolds

chapter |6 pages

John Marshall

chapter |7 pages

Thurgood Marshall

chapter |2 pages

Stanley Matthews

chapter |6 pages

Samuel Freeman Miller

chapter |3 pages

Sherman Minton

chapter |1 pages

William Moody

chapter |2 pages

Alfred Moore

chapter |6 pages

Francis (Frank) William Murphy

chapter |2 pages

Samuel Nelson

chapter |8 pages

Sandra Day O'connor

chapter |4 pages

William Paterson

chapter |3 pages

Rufus Wheeler Peckham, Jr.

chapter |2 pages

Mahlon Pitney

chapter |10 pages

Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.

chapter |6 pages

Stanley Forman Reed

chapter |10 pages

William Hubbs Rehnquist

chapter |5 pages

Owen Josephus Roberts

chapter |2 pages

John Rutledge

chapter |3 pages

Wiley Blount Rutledge

chapter |2 pages

Edward Terry Sanford

chapter |6 pages

Antonin Scalia

chapter |2 pages

George Shiras, Jr.

chapter |4 pages

David Hackett Souter

chapter |10 pages

John Paul Stevens

chapter |6 pages

Potter Stewart

chapter |10 pages

Harlan Fiske Stone

chapter |10 pages

Joseph Story

chapter |4 pages

William Strong

chapter |5 pages

George Sutherland

chapter |2 pages

Noah Haynes Swayne

chapter |8 pages

William Howard Taft

chapter |10 pages

Roger Brooke Taney

chapter |2 pages

Clarence Thomas

chapter |1 pages

Smith Thompson

chapter |4 pages

Thomas Todd

chapter |1 pages

Robert Trimble

chapter |4 pages

Frederick Moore Vinson

chapter |8 pages

Morrison Remick Waite

chapter |9 pages

Earl Warren

chapter |3 pages

Bushrod Washington

chapter |2 pages

James Moore Wayne

chapter |8 pages

Byron Raymond White

chapter |7 pages

Edward Douglass White

chapter |2 pages

Charles Evans Whittaker

chapter |2 pages

James Wilson

chapter |2 pages

Levi Woodbury

chapter |1 pages

William Burnham Woods