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Lincoln through Harrison Nominees (1862-1893)

  • noah haynes swayne (1862-81)

    Abolitionist

    Picked by, supported Lincoln

    Upheld income tax

    Biography

  • samuel freeman miller (1862-90)

    Hawkeye politics

    Narrow Fourteenth Amendment

    Prolific writer

     

    Biography

  • DAVID DAVIS (1862-77)

    Ran Lincoln’s campaign

    Reigned in military courts

    Resigned, joined Senate

     

    Biography

  • Stephen Johnson Field (1863-1897)

    California judge

    Pushed substantive due process

    Served second longest

     

    Biography

  • William Strong (1870-80)

    Two terms in the House
    Pennsylvania judge, lawyer

    Strauder opinion

    Biography

  • joseph bradley (1870-92)

    Successful lawyer

    Viewed women as wives, mothers

    Made Hayes President

     

    Biography

  • ward hunt (1872-82)

    Appointed by Grant

    Tried Susan B. Anthony

    Disabled by stroke

     

    Biography

  • john marshall harlan (1877-1911)

    Kentucky colonel

    Argued incorporation

    Plessy dissenter

     

    Biography

  • william Burnham woods (1880-87)

    Union general

    Stayed south after Civil War

    Little Court impact

     

    Biography

  • stanley Matthews (1881-89)

    Hayes nominated

    Garfield renominated

    Narrowly confirmed

     

    Biography

  • horace gray (1881-1902)

    Massachusetts judge

    First Justice to hire clerk

    Wrote long opinions

     

    Biography

  • samuel blatchford (1882-93)

    Founder of Cravath

    Served as judge at three levels

    Admiralty law

     

    Opinion

  • lucius quintus cincinnatus Lamar II (1888-93)

    Confederacy

    Mississippi’s sole Justice

    Cleveland appointee

     

    Biography

  • david josiah brewer (1889-1910)

    Longtime Kansas judge

    Substantive due process fan

    Justice Field’s nephew

     

    Biography

  • henry billings brown (1890-1906)

    Admiralty law

    Lochner and Pollock cases

    Plessy opinion

     

    Biography

  • george shiras, Jr. (1892-1903)

    Lawyer from Pittsburgh

    No prior public service

    Pollock and Plessy

     

    Biography

  • howell edmunds jackson (1893-95)

    Tennessee Native

    Unanimously confirmed

    Tuberculosis

     

    Biography

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