Warning...History Geek at Work

The President will nominate his second Justice in the same year, something that is almost unheard of recently, but is not historically without precedent...below is a list of past such occurrances:


Brockholst Livingston-Jan. 20, 1807
Thomas Todd-May 4, 1807

John McLean- Jan. 11, 1830
Henry Baldwin- Jan. 18, 1830

Roger B. Taney-March 28, 1836 (Infamous Chief for the Dred Scott Case)
Phillip P. Barbour- May 17, 1836

Samuel Nelson- Feb. 27, 1845
Levi Woodbury- Sept. 23, 1845

Noah Swayne- Jan. 27, 1862
Samuel F. Miller- July 21, 1862
David Davis- Dec. 10, 1862
(Quite a year for Lincoln)

William Strong- March 14, 1870
Joseph P. Bradley- March 23, 1870

William B. Woods- Jan. 5, 1881
Stanley Matthews- May 17, 1881

Horace Gray- Jan. 9, 1882
Samuel Blatchford- April 3, 1882

Lucius Q.C. Lamar- Jan. 18, 1888
Melville W. Fuller- Oct. 8, 1888

Joseph R. Lamar- Jan. 3, 1911
Willis Van Devanter- Jan. 3, 1911
(Not a great deal of time spent on those confirmations, who says Taft was ineffective)

Louis D. Brandies- June 5, 1916
John H. Clarke- October 9, 1916

Pierce Butler- Jan. 2, 1923
Edward T. Sanford- Feb. 19, 1923

Felix Frankfurter- Jan. 30, 1939 (is there a better SC Justice name?)
William O. Douglas- April 17, 1939

James Byrnes- July 8, 1941
Robert Jackson- July 11, 1941

Tom C. Clark-Aug. 24, 1949
Sherman Minton- Oct. 12, 1949

William Renquist- Jan. 7, 1972 (As an Associate Justice, he became chief in '86)
Lewis F. Powell Jr.- Jan. 7, 1972

Thanks to Oyez.com for the excellent site that they are.

Feel free to use any of this information...but do know, if you do it, people will think you are a geek...and they might be right.