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This is a list of U.S. Supreme Court Justices by time in office. This is based on the difference between dates; if counted by number of calendar days all the figures would be greater by the number of distinct periods of service (1 for most).

Rank by length of term	Justice	Length in days	Term of office
1	William O. Douglas	13,358	April 17, 1939–November 12, 1975
2	Stephen Johnson Field	12,614	May 20, 1863–December 1, 1897
3	John Marshall*	12,570	February 4, 1801–July 6, 1835
4	Hugo Black	12,447	August 19, 1937–September 17, 1971
5	John Marshall Harlan	12,360	December 10, 1877–October 14, 1911
6	William J. Brennan	12,330	October 16, 1956–July 20, 1990
7	William Rehnquist*	12,293+	January 7, 1972–September 3, 2005+
8	Joseph Story	12,273	February 3, 1812–September 10, 1845
9	James Moore Wayne	11,860	January 14, 1835–July 5, 1867
10	John McLean	11,406	January 11, 1830–April 4, 1861
11	Byron White	11,396	April 16, 1962–June 28, 1993
12	John Paul Stevens	11,305§	December 19, 1975–present
13	Bushrod Washington	11,252	February 4, 1799–November 26, 1829
14	William Johnson	11,046	May 7, 1804–August 4, 1834
15	Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.	10,627	December 8, 1902–January 12, 1932
16	Roger B. Taney*	10,425	March 28, 1836–October 12, 1864
17	Samuel Freeman Miller	10,311	July 21, 1862–October 13, 1890
18	John Catron	10,256	May 1, 1837–May 30, 1865
19	Samuel Nelson	10,136	February 27, 1845–November 28, 1872
20	Edward Douglass White*	9,929+	March 12, 1894–May 19, 1921+
21	Joseph McKenna	9,840	January 26, 1898–January 5, 1925
22	Willis Van Devanter	9,647	January 3, 1911–June 2, 1937
23	James Clark McReynolds	9,608	October 12, 1914–January 31, 1941
24	Sandra Day O'Connor	8,894	September 25, 1981–January 31, 2006
25	Harry Blackmun	8,821	June 9, 1970–August 3, 1994
26	Thurgood Marshall	8,765	October 2, 1967–October 1, 1991
27	Felix Frankfurter	8,611	January 30, 1939–August 28, 1962
28	Nathan Clifford	8,586	January 21, 1858–July 25, 1881
29	Robert Cooper Grier	8,575	August 10, 1846–January 31, 1870
30	Gabriel Duvall	8,453	November 23, 1811–January 14, 1835
31	Potter Stewart	8,298	October 14, 1958–July 3, 1981
32	Louis Brandeis	8,288	June 5, 1916–February 13, 1939
33	Joseph Philo Bradley	7,975	March 23, 1870–January 22, 1892
34	Melville Fuller*	7,938	October 8, 1888–July 4, 1910
35	Harlan Fiske Stone*	7,721+	March 2, 1925–April 22, 1946+
36	Horace Gray	7,553	January 9, 1882–September 15, 1902
37	William Cushing	7,527	February 2, 1790–September 13, 1810
38	Smith Thompson	7,413	September 1, 1823–December 18, 1843
39	David Josiah Brewer	7,385	January 6, 1890–March 28, 1910
40	Antonin Scalia	7,371§	September 26, 1986–present
41	William Rufus Day	7,196	March 2, 1903–November 13, 1922
42	Stanley Forman Reed	6,965	January 31, 1938–February 25, 1957
43	Noah Haynes Swayne	6,937	January 27, 1862–January 24, 1881
44	Anthony Kennedy	6,861§	February 18, 1988–present
45	Thomas Todd	6,854	May 4, 1807–February 7, 1826
46	Peter Vivian Daniel	6,716	January 10, 1842–May 31, 1860
47	Tom C. Clark	6,501	August 24, 1949–June 12, 1967
48	Warren E. Burger*	6,304	June 23, 1969–September 26, 1986
49	Charles Evans Hughes*	6,214+	October 10, 1910–June 10, 1916 February 24, 1930–June 30, 1941*
50	Pierce Butler	6,162	January 2, 1923–November 16, 1939
51	John Marshall Harlan II	6,023	March 28, 1955–September 23, 1971
52	Henry Brockholst Livingston	5,901	January 20, 1807–March 18, 1823
53	David Souter	5,897 §	October 9, 1990–present
54	Earl Warren*	5,740	October 5, 1953–June 23, 1969
55	Lewis Franklin Powell, Jr.	5,649	January 7, 1972–June 26, 1987
56	Henry Billings Brown	5,621	January 5, 1891–May 28, 1906
57	Samuel Chase	5,613	February 4, 1796–June 19, 1811
58	George Sutherland	5,586	October 2, 1922–January 17, 1938
59	Owen Josephus Roberts	5,538	June 2, 1930–July 31, 1945
60	Clarence Thomas	5,518§	October 23, 1991–present
61	John McKinley	5,305	January 9, 1838–July 19, 1852
62	Henry Baldwin	5,207	January 18, 1830–April 21, 1844
63	David Davis	5,198	December 10, 1862–March 4, 1877
64	Morrison R. Waite*	5,133	March 4, 1874–March 23, 1888
65	Rufus Wheeler Peckham	5,039	January 6, 1896–October 24, 1909
66	William Paterson	4,929	March 11, 1793–September 9, 1806
67	Ruth Bader Ginsburg	4,861§	August 10, 1993–present
68	Robert H. Jackson	4,838	July 11, 1941–October 9, 1954
69	Harold Hitz Burton	4,760	October 1, 1945–October 13, 1958
70	Stephen Breyer	4,503§	August 3, 1994–present
71	Samuel Blatchford	4,113	April 3, 1882–July 7, 1893
72	Mahlon Pitney	3,940	March 18, 1912–December 31, 1922
73	William Strong	3,928	March 14, 1870–December 14, 1880
74	George Shiras, Jr.	3,787	October 10, 1892–February 23, 1903
75	Frank Murphy	3,452	February 5, 1940–July 19, 1949
76	James Iredell	3,448	May 12, 1790–October 20, 1799
77	Ward Hunt	3,305	January 9, 1873–January 27, 1882
78	James Wilson	3,242	October 5, 1789–August 21, 1798
79	William Howard Taft*	3,129	July 11, 1921–February 3, 1930
80	Salmon P. Chase*	3,065	December 15, 1864–May 7, 1873
81	John Archibald Campbell	2,941	April 11, 1853–April 30, 1861
82	Thomas Stanley Matthews	2,866	May 17, 1881–March 22, 1889
83	Fred M. Vinson*	2,633	June 24, 1946–September 8, 1953
84	Edward Terry Sanford	2,574	February 19, 1923–March 8, 1930
85	Sherman Minton	2,560	October 12, 1949–October 15, 1956
86	Wiley Blount Rutledge	2,399	February 15, 1943–September 10, 1949
87	William Burnham Woods	2,320	January 5, 1881–May 14, 1887
88	Benjamin N. Cardozo	2,308	March 14, 1932–July 9, 1938
89	Benjamin Robbins Curtis	2,182	October 10, 1851–September 30, 1857
90	Levi Woodbury	2,172	September 23, 1845–September 4, 1851
91	John Hessin Clarke	2,170	October 9, 1916–September 18, 1922
92	John Blair	2,091	February 2, 1790–October 25, 1795
93	John Jay*	2,079	October 19, 1789–June 29, 1795
94	Lucius Quintus Cincinnatus Lamar	1,832	January 18, 1888–January 23, 1893
95	Charles Evans Whittaker	1,832	March 25, 1957–March 31, 1962
96	Joseph Rucker Lamar	1,825	January 3, 1911–January 2, 1916
97	Philip Pendleton Barbour	1,750	May 12, 1836–February 25, 1841
98	Oliver Ellsworth*	1,742	March 8, 1796–December 15, 1800
99	Horace Harmon Lurton	1,651	January 3, 1910–July 12, 1914
100	William Henry Moody	1,434	December 17, 1906–November 20, 1910
101	Alfred Moore	1,375	April 21, 1800–January 26, 1804
102	Abe Fortas	1,318	October 4, 1965–May 14, 1969
103	Arthur Joseph Goldberg	1,028	October 1, 1962–July 25, 1965
104	Howell Edmunds Jackson	887	March 4, 1893–August 8, 1895
105	Robert Trimble	801	June 16, 1826–August 25, 1828
106	John Rutledge*	508+	February 15, 1790–March 5, 1791 August 12, 1795–December 15, 1795*
107	James F. Byrnes	452	July 8, 1941–October 3, 1942
108	John Roberts*	428§	September 29, 2005–present
109	Samuel Alito	304§	January 31, 2006–present
110	Thomas Johnson	163	August 6, 1792–January 16, 1793

*Chief Justice
⁺Term as Associate Justice and Chief Justice combined
^§As of November 1, 2006

[edit] See also

• List of Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States
• List of U.S. Chief Justices by time in office